Most of the train trip I slept because I was feeling so terrible.. On the train we also wrote down what we've learnt so far in Italy.
- Ciao, kratsie and tutta la vita which we didn't understand what it meant. It was the boys joke and by using translator it means something like the old life.. but we don't know the meaning of it or what the boys meant.
- In Italy they kiss three times on the cheeks. Sometimes only two times but the third time brings you good luck.
- Italians drive like maniacs! They can stop in the middle of road to shout for directions from the nearest car..
- Italian food and the order to eat it. Never mix pasta and meat/chicken together. Italian pizza!
From the train we admired the beautiful scenery; mountains and lakes. :) From the train station we first searched the info point and they gave us a nice map and good info about the address we wanted to go (hostel). We found the right bus immediately, knew were to get off from the bus and I told Saija that this can't be this easy.. We found the hostel but we couldn't get in so we called to this number on the door and the lady answered and told us that they were full. We just laughed, we knew that something would happen, it couldn't go that smoothly. We had absolutely no idea where to go. We had searched only one hostel and we had no clue where would an interner cafe be. So I happened to look at the map we got and it said there: girls hostel. So with the map we started to navigate to the hostel. On the way I got to witness Saija's love for machines!! She just lost it with this ATM machine which didn't give her any money..! :D Saija HATES all electronics, all: phones, computers, ATMs etc. even door locks and how to open doors for example in hotels.. Well, after we had gotten money we finally found the hostel after walking around like crazy. Before finding it we took our bags off and just took a pause sitting on the pavement and wondered out loud where this hostel could be. Then this girl from the balcony pointed right in front of us to this big old looking door.. It was in front of us, only two meters away and we couldn't find it.. Excellent navigating skills?
Right away on the inner court of the hostel (the courtyard was surrounded by walls) we got this feeling of being in the history like in 1500-century or middle ages or something like that (I really don't know anything about history..). The hostel was only for girls, we had strict times to be back at the hostel by 10pm, nun pictures on the walls, early wake up and check out time. Our room had this mmmm.. balcony which had been built later on to the room. We of course wanted to sleep on the balcony which had 6 beds and beneath us on the lower level was maybe 6 beds also. On the lower level there was two other girls. The room reminded us also from some early century with really simple looking beds and the curtains on the windows..
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| My bed |
The city of Verona is famous for the Romeo and Juliet story which took place in there. We of course went to see the places were the characters had lived. We some famous places like: Piazza Bra, Piazza Erbe (our hostel was near it). Piazza Erbe, was the centre of city life during Roman times and it still has the same role: meeting place, restaurants, home of the market place. It was still full of people selling all kinds of Verona or Romeo and Juliat stuff. We didn't want (or had time to) go around and see the most famous churches or anything. We just walked around, had a peacefull evening and went to the hostel before our curfew.. We got asked out by these construction workers who worked on the amphitheatre Arena but we had to say no because on a holiday we had a curfew. :D
When we got back to our room we had this huge window open and we could hear this some kind of concert or musical event from the nearest church Santa Maria Matricolare also know as the Duomo of Verona. Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga and some church music (nice combination) etc. before we went to sleep.
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| Verona |
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| From Romeo's home door |
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| Piazza Erbe |
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| Home of Juliet and the love notes |
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| Piazza Erbe |
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| The view from hostel window (Santa Maria Matricolare) and were the music came |
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