Heh, you didn't have guidebooks? When I went to Italy in 2000 we only ate at places that were in our guidebooks or that we found through asking people. (The one time we deviated from that we regretted it.) Though Yelp is much better and also lighter in the pocket. D and I joke that the internet was made for people like us who don't plan ahead on trips. (I used to plan ahead before I went on trips, but D and his family... don't, and they've made me lazy.)
The ironic thing is, I actually paused before writing that because my old smartphone was from 2014 and I got this 2019 one and it's crazy how much cooler 2019 is technology-wise, so I was thinking, hey, you know, from my local perspective things are pretty great now. And then in between writing that comment and writing this one, as you can see from my latest post, it has cracked now *sigh* so I may be going back to 2014 after all. It was fun visiting, 2019.
Re: 1799
Heh, you didn't have guidebooks? When I went to Italy in 2000 we only ate at places that were in our guidebooks or that we found through asking people. (The one time we deviated from that we regretted it.) Though Yelp is much better and also lighter in the pocket. D and I joke that the internet was made for people like us who don't plan ahead on trips. (I used to plan ahead before I went on trips, but D and his family... don't, and they've made me lazy.)
The ironic thing is, I actually paused before writing that because my old smartphone was from 2014 and I got this 2019 one and it's crazy how much cooler 2019 is technology-wise, so I was thinking, hey, you know, from my local perspective things are pretty great now. And then in between writing that comment and writing this one, as you can see from my latest post, it has cracked now *sigh* so I may be going back to 2014 after all. It was fun visiting, 2019.