Monday, March 16, 2009

High school trip to Rome leaves students without clothes.

A little amusing, but I feel for these kids. After doing laundry in Florence, I left a lot of clothes hanging to dry in a closet and didn't realize until I was in another city. Had to pay a bazillion $ for new clothes that fit me like a sausage casing. Anyway, from the Toronto Star:

They came to one of the most fashionable cities in the world hoping to buy souvenirs, but a group of high school students is spending their money on socks after roughly half their luggage was stolen during a school trip to Europe.

The teens, from Waterdown District High School near Burlington, are on a 10-day tour of Italy and Greece. Shortly after they landed in Rome Saturday evening, they stopped for dinner on the way to their hotel, leaving their tour bus on a well-lit street.

When they returned an hour later, the coach had been broken into with crowbars, and suitcases and carry-on bags were missing.

[...] Replacing clothes in Rome isn't as easy as it is back home, thanks to the city's notoriously high prices. In one shop, for instance, three pairs of underwear cost 12 euros (nearly $20 Canadian), she said.

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