I proposed on a big bunny rabbit
Ok, there's more to it than that. My now-fiancee had seen a picture of this on the internet. It's here, in a tiny village in Italy. And I thought, we're never going to take an entire day to visit a giant pink bunny rabbit hundreds of miles from our home ever again, and it's precisely this kind of crazy that I've been looking for all my life. I'm going to keep this one, and I'm going to ask her when we see the rabbit.

We were staying in a chalet in France, about an hour from Geneva. We drove to the rabbit. This took about 5 hours, and about Eu50 in tolls, and would take the same on the way back. Then we saw what Google Maps (at the time) couldn't show you. The pleasant field that the rabbit appeared to be situated in was less flat than we imagined. In fact, it was at the top of a ski slope.

By this time it was about 5pm, and the sun was dipping below the mountain peaks around us. So we set out to climb the mountain to look at the big bunny rabbit. It took us an hour and a half to get to the top, which made me wonder how anyone learned to ski before the ski-lift. And, as we were arriving about three years after it had been made, we saw this (edit - link changed, this is the blog I stole the image from).

We'd spent the best part of £150 on fuel and tolls, 2-3 hours up and down a mountain, 10 hours in the car and a day out of our holiday, to see a big lumpy grey thing.

Still, we're getting married in March, and so it wasn't all in vain. And it's the only time I've ever been to Italy. And maybe in the future we'll take another road trip across three countries to a giant decaying cuddly toy. On an anniversary perhaps?
(sabre-tooth monkey, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 10:20, 4 replies)

that last link doesn't work!!
what a let down :(
( spesh., Fri 18 Sep 2009, 11:00, closed)

I'll like this if you fix the link...
(twiceydrinker hmmm is it pint time?, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 11:25, closed)

Link worked ok for me, oddly.
Should be better now anyway.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 12:17, closed)

Excellent
I had no idea about this. My girlfriend is from Bra (hur hur), just north of the big rabbit, and we're going there next week. I see a visit to the rabbit on the cards...
(Crayola Oblongata Is it Monday?, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 12:48, closed)