Touring Italy Once More
Hey my friends! After a 3-week-long summer holiday I’m back to Hungary, and charged with this new freshness. I’m ready to share all the lil’ sweet & dirty things happened to me during this time.
My boyfriend, Ziggy and I was asked by an American retired man, Earl, who came to Europe, to escort him all around Italy. So the next day we rented an Opel Vectra and took aim at Venice, our first stop. Well you gotta know that the car’s top speed was 220kph and we usually made it up to 210kph! You know, we fancy SPEED a lot here!
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All of us had already been to Venice before, but this is typical the city that can always give you something new. This time we took a ride on a gondola, which was both a great fun and a big rip-off. Earl tried to make the ‘gondola-driver’ sing, but it was hopeless. I walked about in my bikini top, Ziggy with his naked trunk, because we both wanted to explore the strength of the sun and eagerly tried to get tanned better then the others. After a two-hour stroll a young man came up to us and shared the ‘top secret’ with us that we were not allowed to walk with the upper part of our body half naked, and we gotta put on our shirts otherwise we could get fined $200 by the police! Wow! I think it was something good to know. My message to you guys: Never think if you go to a Mediterranean place like Italy you can get a tan as easy as you thought!
Our next stop was in Cesenatico, a cute, small beach-town. We spent 3 days there and got to know the local people and bars very soon. We chummed up with Mateo, who worked at our hotel as a waiter.
Then we went to Ravenna and Bologna where we spent one day at each place.
After came Rimini, which became one of my favourite beach-towns. It’s small, but enough big for shopping. It’s not packed with tourists, so we managed to find deck-chairs easily. We stayed in a very groovy hotel, with a swimming-pool which we initiated on the first day! We met up 3 Germans: Boris, Bianca and Daniel. They were around 22 and super cool. On our last day in Rimini they took us out to a funky club. First we didn’t wanted to go, cuz we knew Germans drink a lot and we thought we wouldn’t be able to keep pace with them. Yet we went and not for a moment we regretted it!!! I can’t remember for the pubs name, but it looked like a big boat and had a brilliant atmosphere. Every day there is a live band playing. We were lucky to catch a band called: Too rude. (www.toorude.it) They are half Italian and half English. That night they mostly played covers from punky-rocky bands, so I really had to stand in the first row and sang the hell out of me! When they played ‘Celebrity Skin’ by Hole that put the point to the i. After the show they gave me signed CD as a present – hmmm Italians are generous – and invited me for a cocktail.
In the end, Ziggy and me were a lot more intoxicated than our German friends, who couldn’t stop laughing at us and kept repeating the words we had said them funnily : ” Oh, we don’t like going out with Germans, cuz they drink too much!”J It was dawn and we were damn loaded when we left the pub. Ziggy wasn’t enough contented with the swimming-pool in the hotel so he thought he had to try the fountain which stood in the middle of the town! Should I explain how we looked like when we finally arrived to the hotel? But it wasn’t the end. Boris thought if we were already wet, we should splash once more in the swimming-pool. So we all besiege the pool and jumped in with our clothes on.
The hotel’s young waiter boy was also attacked by Daniel and he ended up in the pool as well. I don’t remember how we got out of there and got into our rooms….
Next day we drove to San Marino, then San Leo and then to Rome, where we stayed 3 days. There has been so many building, ruins and museums to see, so we wasn’t bored at all. Once we lost our way home, and bumped into a whole lot of people waiting for something. As it turned out the pope was going to come and give a sermon.
On the second day Earl suggested that we should go to the “Rock Cafe”, which is an American kind of restaurant in the heart of Rome, because he wanted to indulge in nostalgia for a bit! So we had lunch there, and ate big hamburgers and chips and nacho. I reckon it was the place where I drank the most delicious mix: iced strawberry shake with rum. YUM!
To get to Vatican it took us 2 hours, because don’t forget that we are in Rome and the traffic is unbelievable, and we always lose our way! – maybe it shouldn’t be me who read the map?! When we finally got there, 33C, we weren’t allowed to go to the church because Ziggy was wearing short pants! So we named them: “MUGGYS”. We went to change our clothes and then back to the church. There’s a big gallery in the Vatican with the most famous paintings and statues, but there is also the biggest queue! People usually go there at 5am and then they are lucky if they get in at 10 am! TIP: Do not ever line up, just walk 2 kms from the end of the line up to the front (that’s how long it usually is) and hop in unnoticed, and pretend you have been standing there for at least 6 hours!
Well that’s what we did and it worked!
Our next stop was Naples, where we caught a big boat and ferried to the Capri-Islands. We passed the Vezuv (volcano) and some other nice little islands.
Capri is a place for the rich. You can hardly see anyone there who is from the “normal” society. We stayed in a four star hotel – because there wasn’t anything else but 4 and 5 star hotels! – right near the beach. Well I have to say that the view and the island itself were beautiful and the beach looked wonderful and was pretty warm for the season.
We decided we wouldn’t drive southwards, cuz one day we have to go home, so we travelled up to Florence, then to Pisa, to see the tower, then Genoa and Milan. Our last stop was in Bergamo, where we had a big party and then safe ride back home.
In Budapest there are tons of festivals, concerts coming up. Keep checkin’ back!
Hugs,
Kata
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