Italy in five days...

What an incredibly busy week I have had! In five days I managed to visit over 7 places in Italy and can safely say I am still totally in love with Macerata and my life here in Italy.

Thursday 11.11.10 - Bologna


Thursday was the start of the trip and we began it at the early time of 8.30am. We got a train to Bologna because we needed to meet Gema's friend Aida there, and also her parents were picking us up from Bologna. We arrived an it was really cold, much colder than Macerata, and to be honest I didn't like it at all. It is a completely grey city, and big, but not in a good way, and it just made me so much happier that I am doing my Erasmus in Macerata. Anyway, we had a wander round, and BIG NEWS I ate my first macdonalds since I was about ten years old...crazy times haha!
 

In the evening we met up with Gema's parents and they took us out for an amazing meal...so delicious but stupidly expensive! After the meal we said our goodbyes to Aida, and made our way to Venice....

Day 2

Venice was our next stop, and again it was pretty cold, but nice and sunny in the morning. I was really excited to see Venice, but it wasn't as beautiful as I had expected it to be, it was a little bit dirty and run down, but we had a fantastic day none-the-less.

Best bread ever!!!

That night we travelled to Verona, as we found an amazing hotel online and of course we wanted to see the famous balcony!! When we arrived in Verona we went to the hotel and got changed for dinner, and of course had a bit of a photoshoot in the hotel room....LOVE IT!





We were really hungry so we went to the town centre to find a nice restaurant and decided to eat in the main square. We sat outside and EVERY SINGLE GUY who walked past looked like a model! Definately fell in love a few times!!!

JOHNNY DEPP!!!!

Best pizza ever! NOM!

 

Day 3

The next morning we woke up nice and early and had a walk around Verona. We visited the famous balcony and I fell in love with the wall just outside the Balcony...it was a bit graffiti wall where loads of people had written love hearts and messages to each other!

In the afternoon we went to Modena for lunch, but there was nothing in the city, so we continued on to Florence, it was quite a drive so I of course slept the whole journey (as I did for every car journey!!) 

Florence was a bit of a nightmare, we spent 3 hours circling trying to find a hotel. We finally found one at midnight, dumped our suitcases and went out for dinner. Ate, then completely zonked out in the hotel.

Day 4

I loved Florence so much! So much to see and do (and amazing shopping!!!) We had a great time and took lots of photos! And I bought some amazing trousers from H+M always a bonus :)







 

6.11.10 ... POORLY week

So this week has been somewhat uneventful as I have been struck down with flu! So my lovely friends have been to the rescue with an endless supply of pizza, ice-cream and of course laughs (sorry for the cringe factor!)

Monday night me and Ezgi stayed in and watched a film (seriously had to recover from Halloween...hangover from HELL) and got pizza...Tuesday night saw the same...as did Wednesday (Although with a slight variety as we added ice-cream).


Thursday I was feeling more humane, so we decided to go to Tartaruga, but only lasted an hour, then went to buy food (I see a theme occurring here....) and i got my hair in a bobble BIG NEWS!
 

Friday we had another film night, and slept at Gema's...then today we woke up nice and early and spent the day in San Bernadetto del Tronto and had an absolutely perfect day. We wondered round the shops, had a nice leisurely lunch, and then hit the beach. We finished the day with ice cream, then a nice english tea. PERFECT!!!!

halloweeeeeeeeeen

Had a brilliant halloween in Macerata and everyone made such a good effort to dress up! I went to one of my friend's houses with Gema and Ezgi, and we all sat and did each others make up, and my god did we look grotesque!!!

 FRIGHT NIGHT!