Alicia listened as Adrian spoke, she really did, but though she somewhat got an idea of what he was trying to explain, she couldn’t quite imagine it and was beginning to think that now she really wanted to go, so he could show her. Of course, the way Adrian seemed to stumble over the word ‘romantic’ had her attempt to cover up her smirk by eating of her pizza. “Sounds like amazing places,” she chuckled, Adrian’s laugh making her relax and push away the awkwardness that had been just moments before. He seemed so relaxed now, well, mostly, and hearing him speak of his family like this was nice. “Both places, I mean. Italy and St. Thomas. I think I’d be on the beach constantly if I lived there.”
Taking a sip of water, she swallowed a bite of pizza as she considered where to start. “I’ve travelled, but not so much travelling as going to one place for whatever reason. But I’ve been going skiing with my family every year since, gods, since I was three or four, I think, and there’s only three years we haven’t gone. So we’ve done all the big places for that; France, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, even Spain, and when I’ve travelled in the summer, it’s been for the beach… Greece, Tunesia, The Canary Islands… there’s this tiny island, Fuerteventura, that’s just goats and windmills and miles and miles of pure, white sand and azure water and the best seafood you’ll ever have anywhere. It’s amazing.” Her voice trailed off as her thoughts drifted to the warm lazy days she had spent there while the kids had been testing ice cream in the nearby village. Shaking her head she returned to the here and now. “And then I’ve been at training camps with Pride in Italy,” she made a small gesture as if to say ‘as you know’, “France, Romania and Bulgaria, so I’ve never really been outside Europe. Well, northern Africa, but that hardly counts.”