Italia!
The trip to Italy was really amazing despite the visit was
rather rushed (I didn’t even get to see my Italian friend, David). Italy is richly diffused with arts and
history. Carvings, sculptures, monuments and paintings were every where.
The views
were fantastic, the FOOD is delicious (and HUGE!) and the people here are GORGEOUS!
The 7 of us
were had a great time!
Milan + Venice (day 1-2)
Day 1
After a
rather alarming dash to the airplane (we almost missed it) for our flight to
Milan, we arrived at Milan’s Bergamo airport. From there, our
adventurous journey of exploring the land where very few people actually speak
English began. We ‘went’ to Milan to get to Venice (it worked out to be much
cheaper than landing in the other 3 cities themselves, because the tickets were
bought late. Lesson: get your ticket ASAP!).
We took the
train to Venice and arrived at our accommodation around 6pm. That is, after 6 hours of journey
from Milan ! Not a pretty straight forward journey after all, compounded by the
fact that the camping site (i.e our accommodation) was not anywhere near main
area in Venice. We still had to take a bus to get there, and then walked to that
place. Frustrations came as we couldn’t communicate clearly to the people here
and we were quite lost with our directions (imagine, we wasted about 30 minutes
trying to locate the bus stop. Ok fine, it was partly our fault too, not
reading instructions properly. hehe).
However,
Italian people are really warm and helpful. We were in the bus to our
accommodation and we had no clue whatsoever where we should stop. Other
passengers who noticed our desperation helped us a lot, even when some of them
couldn’t speak English! And how grateful of us when there were some who could
actually speak them!
We didn’t
actually camp, despite being in a campsite. We instead opted for ensuite rooms.
Ahh….at least the adventure that we had trying to get to that place was
worthwhile!
Day 2
We went to
the island part of Venice (the main attraction spot) and
spent the entire day walking. An extremely wonderful paradise, and I think the pictures
you see here say it all. Just one particular thing: my trip to Italy was already completed with the
music that came from the accordion that I found in Venice. Completed the narrow
streets+Italian+accordion+pizza+gelato scene! Yay!
Florence (Day 3+4)
The only
significant thing I did here was: lining up to see a sculpture of a naked man.
Ya ya ya, a sculpture called to be the “The Perfect Man”, the statue of David,
sculpted by a man called Michangello. The rest of the day…makan, makan, makan.
I like!
Must say
the best accommodation in all the 6 days. Felt like home.
And this is
when Mimi was officially called “Mimichan”. Hehe
Yup, went
to the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Rome + Vatican City(Day 5+6)
Went to the
Colesseum – never imagined it to be THAT huge. The Forum, which is next to it,
is modern-day equivalent of London in those ancient times. Then to the
famous Fontana di Trevi (Fountain of Trevi)……it’s a beautiful huge man-made
elaborated outdoor pool! Unlike the museums in Malaysia, the museums here are about rocks,
paitings, and sculptures. Too bad I’m not a ‘museum’ type of a person – being in
a museum for longer than 2 hours was already unbearable for, although that’s still
not enough by Roman museum standard to completely explore them.
Next day,
was Vatican City! Made me thought a lot about God when I was
there. What more when the day before was Good Friday and the next day would be
Easter. A majestic physical presentation of Christianity. It’s a must for every
Christian to visit Vatican City!
Xxx
And there
you go, a visit to Italy . I’m sooooooooooooooooo going there
again!
