We have taken to calling the largest room in our apartment, “The War Room.” It has two sofas, the television, three bookcases and a rather large eight person table. The table houses our map by day – where we get a good visual of our surroundings – and converts to a pool table by night! We have only played pool once.
Today the War Room gave us inspiration in abundance. I retrieved my old Rome guide – a missive 135 pages long – with everything you might want to see. I checked off what we had done. We (or at least “I”, it’s my old guide which I made notations in years ago) have seen almost all of it, save five weird sites. We will save these for other days. However, today we used the War Room to make some plans. Thus, we shall be traipsing to Orvieto, Assisi, cooking school, Montepulciano and Castel Gandolfo!
Every house needs a war room. Or perhaps a Viking Dining Hall as “Pancy” might say.
Pool table Thomas Crowne Affair