but it's beautiful!

So, I'm twenty-one at the beginning of January next year and my parents are going a tiny bit crazy. I don't know whether it's the realisation that their (not so) little girl, their first-born is finally growing up, or whether they feel like they have to conform to popular culture, or whether they just wanna have a good party, but they have asked what I'd like to do.

Well, I'll tell you what I'd like to do. I'd like to wake up on my birthday morning to this baby:

I couldn't get close enough to it to see what make and model it is, but it is BEAUTIFUL. It makes my Volkswagen Polo look decidely ugly.

...But, yeah, back to reality. It's not gonna happen - it's probably worth more than all of the houses my parents have ever owned put together!

It's still gorgeous, though. A girl can dream, right?

You might notice that the car has a sticker on its side. That's because that photograph was taken by yours truly when Mille Miglia came to town. It's basically a world-famous vintage car route from Brescia to Rome and back to Brescia again. That little trip is one thousand miles long (hence the name) and is surrounded, obviously, by much press attention; not only in Brescia, but around the world. The day before the cars set off, they were parked in the piazze and they lined the streets in the centre so that the public could go and have a good ogle. I dragged a long-suffering friend around with me and took literally hundreds of photos of all of these beautiful classics. Yeah, I know, I told you I was cool, remember?