Today, 3 country’s (France, Switzerland and Italy), 3 city’s (Lyon, Geneva and Milan), 9 hours of travel from which 7 in the train, Through the beautiful scenery of the alps, the lake of Geneva. Shortly,an exhausting but stunning ride!
Around 11 am we left Lyon, the train took us to Geneva where we needed to switch trains and had a break of 2 hours. We took our backpacks and walked straight down to the magnificent lake of Geneva which. After a break a small walk and the hunt for food! Well the food was not the problem, there were plenty shops. But those Swiss people still use their own money! That was why one of the hotels starter was 110, not euro`s but Swiss Francs. So without food we got on the train to Milan. The train took us straight through the beautiful alps, along the lake of Geneva. In the train we met Matthias, a ski instructor with 2 houses and a broken hip! He told us the tragic storey (supported with video footage of the accident).
After Matthias left us in the train on the first stop in Italy we sat in the train for a couple of hours till we arrived, FINALLY arrived in the city of Milan. Finally I say, because ater 7 hours in the train even the mountains of the alps, the stunning lakes, the beautiful skies and the beautiful building we passes are just one of 1000 things you pass and even they get boring!
After our arrival our stomachs guided us to the nearest Pizzaria. Our first ITALIAN pizza in Italy, surprisingly a Chinese guy opened the door and set us down on a table. After a wonderful pizza, a giant beer and a final tiramisu we headed off to our hostel, Hostel Pierro Rosso. The hostel was located in the red light district of Milan and and offcourse, that sounds promising! After we kinda figured out how the public transport works (which is always a big happening in a new city) we arrived in the darkness of the night at the tubestation close to the hostel. After a short walk, sightseeing some of the lady`s of the night and checking in we sat down for a game of blackjack in the garden of the hostel. After a couple of games we went to bed, well.. WE. Franzi went upstairs LEFT and I went downstairs RIGHT! Male and female dorms were separated. Our first confrontation with the Prison Rules of the hostel.
The next morning we woke up, had breakfast and headed off to the city of Milan. First stop, Duomo, a giant cathedral (which already start to get boring because is another one of all the cathedrals we’ve seen so far). But this cathedral didn’t have a massive tower, well let’s say, didn’t have one massive tower because the whole roof was covered in beatifull decorated towers and ornaments!
NOTE FOR ALL READERS: Whenever you go to Milan and are wondering around on the square in front of the Duomo and you get stopped by a friendly guy who tell you you are beautifull and whishes you all the luck in the world and gives you a bracelet! Don’t worry about being robbed, worry about the fact that you look like a tourist and you are about to be ripped off! Because that’s what happened to us, we got the bracelet, the best wishes they ask for a donation (donation is a gift, a choice of amount and even of whether you want to give this guy money or not), the guy asked for 5 euro for a fucking piece of string! Franzi got away with 20 cents, I got away with 70 cents but again! Better no luck and compliments then being ripped of for a piece of string!
Back to business! After the duomo square we went looking for the tourist office and the office of my former boss Claudio Silvestrin, because in the time I worked there they told me about a second office in Milan just off Duomo Square, Piazza Diaz, on that square we looked around for the office but only found a kitchen company. The sales man told me the office had moved to another place in Milan and gave is the address. We headed off to the castle and walked around through the park. Later on we visited Claudio in his new office and after a short walk thought the office, a short talk about the future we went back to the hostel to chill out, have a shower and go for some food. That night when we came back from a good dinner I went to my room and heard music coming out of my door. In the room were 2 Spanish guys with guitar. Not just 2 random guys but 2 pretty skilled musicians. After a chat I invited them to join us for a game of cards. Which turned out to be a giant Pow-wow ( as my fellow hippy Mandy) calles it. The second confrontation with the prison rules came that night! We got kicked out the garden of the hostel for making too much noise). But that didn’t stop the party! We went to a grassfield in the middle of a parking lot next to the hostel where we sat down, the two Spanish guys, a couple of singers, a freestyle rapper and lots of other people contributing to the hippyness, had some French weed, went to get some more beer with Mandy. Mandy who became my favourite hippy in 5 minutes, the whole attitude was cool and laid back. The rest of the night we talked, sung, smoked and drunk togheter on this grassfield in the middle of a parking lot. One word to describe this? UNFORGETTABLE! That night I went to bed happy, happy about new friends, happy about being in love, happy about meeting good people! Because meeting good people makes you forget!
The next morning after another breakfast we figured out we’d kinda seen most of Milan. So we went to the park again, went to a aquarium and to a museum, we took it really really really easy that day. But that night we had a pow-wow again, again lots of beer, a couple of new musicians (including me! Because the Spanish guys gave me a kazoo) also a Mexican guy with a percussion box, the American freestyler and a American jack Johnson singer! One massive group of young travelers enjoiing the music and the warm summer nights of Milan!
The day after after saying goodbye to our Spanish friend we (Franzi, Mandy, Max and me) went to Como, a half an hour train ride from Milan. Franzi’s travel book suggested to go to the lake and it was worth it! A giant lake in the surrounded by mountains, a waterplane airport in the middle, nice architecture are one of the ingredients we used for making a wonderful day! After a feast lunch (with watermelon, beer, baguette with pesto, tomato and mozzarella) we went for a walk, after we digested the food we went for a peddleboat ride on the lake (which was absolutely worth the money). Unfortunately we had to say goodbye to Max because his holiday ended in Como and he had to go back to Milan to catch a bus.
After that we too a train up the mountain and walked there for an hour, till we got picked up by an old busdriver, we didn’t have to pay and he took us all the way to the top. From where we had a stunning view over Como and the Alps. After chilling out for a while on the mountain we walked back and took the train to Milan, where we had dinner and a short music night which ended in a massive thunderstorm. Hail of about 1,5 cm, massive amount of rain flooded the street in a wink, me and mandy found shelter in a busstop where we met a lady of the night who laughed about us being barefooted. We danced in the rain and returned to the hostel soaked. in the hostel we met 3 english chicks with a crazy plan. Let us all get a burnmark, hehe… we sat down and all burned ourselves with the 4 points of a fork. Crazy!!! But memory forever!
Now I’m tired and am off to bed…
Tomorrow is Sziget!!!Franzi is getting ill and she can use some support!!! POST SOME COMMENTS!!!
Around 11 am we left Lyon, the train took us to Geneva where we needed to switch trains and had a break of 2 hours. We took our backpacks and walked straight down to the magnificent lake of Geneva which. After a break a small walk and the hunt for food! Well the food was not the problem, there were plenty shops. But those Swiss people still use their own money! That was why one of the hotels starter was 110, not euro`s but Swiss Francs. So without food we got on the train to Milan. The train took us straight through the beautiful alps, along the lake of Geneva. In the train we met Matthias, a ski instructor with 2 houses and a broken hip! He told us the tragic storey (supported with video footage of the accident).
After Matthias left us in the train on the first stop in Italy we sat in the train for a couple of hours till we arrived, FINALLY arrived in the city of Milan. Finally I say, because ater 7 hours in the train even the mountains of the alps, the stunning lakes, the beautiful skies and the beautiful building we passes are just one of 1000 things you pass and even they get boring!
After our arrival our stomachs guided us to the nearest Pizzaria. Our first ITALIAN pizza in Italy, surprisingly a Chinese guy opened the door and set us down on a table. After a wonderful pizza, a giant beer and a final tiramisu we headed off to our hostel, Hostel Pierro Rosso. The hostel was located in the red light district of Milan and and offcourse, that sounds promising! After we kinda figured out how the public transport works (which is always a big happening in a new city) we arrived in the darkness of the night at the tubestation close to the hostel. After a short walk, sightseeing some of the lady`s of the night and checking in we sat down for a game of blackjack in the garden of the hostel. After a couple of games we went to bed, well.. WE. Franzi went upstairs LEFT and I went downstairs RIGHT! Male and female dorms were separated. Our first confrontation with the Prison Rules of the hostel.
The next morning we woke up, had breakfast and headed off to the city of Milan. First stop, Duomo, a giant cathedral (which already start to get boring because is another one of all the cathedrals we’ve seen so far). But this cathedral didn’t have a massive tower, well let’s say, didn’t have one massive tower because the whole roof was covered in beatifull decorated towers and ornaments!
NOTE FOR ALL READERS: Whenever you go to Milan and are wondering around on the square in front of the Duomo and you get stopped by a friendly guy who tell you you are beautifull and whishes you all the luck in the world and gives you a bracelet! Don’t worry about being robbed, worry about the fact that you look like a tourist and you are about to be ripped off! Because that’s what happened to us, we got the bracelet, the best wishes they ask for a donation (donation is a gift, a choice of amount and even of whether you want to give this guy money or not), the guy asked for 5 euro for a fucking piece of string! Franzi got away with 20 cents, I got away with 70 cents but again! Better no luck and compliments then being ripped of for a piece of string!
Back to business! After the duomo square we went looking for the tourist office and the office of my former boss Claudio Silvestrin, because in the time I worked there they told me about a second office in Milan just off Duomo Square, Piazza Diaz, on that square we looked around for the office but only found a kitchen company. The sales man told me the office had moved to another place in Milan and gave is the address. We headed off to the castle and walked around through the park. Later on we visited Claudio in his new office and after a short walk thought the office, a short talk about the future we went back to the hostel to chill out, have a shower and go for some food. That night when we came back from a good dinner I went to my room and heard music coming out of my door. In the room were 2 Spanish guys with guitar. Not just 2 random guys but 2 pretty skilled musicians. After a chat I invited them to join us for a game of cards. Which turned out to be a giant Pow-wow ( as my fellow hippy Mandy) calles it. The second confrontation with the prison rules came that night! We got kicked out the garden of the hostel for making too much noise). But that didn’t stop the party! We went to a grassfield in the middle of a parking lot next to the hostel where we sat down, the two Spanish guys, a couple of singers, a freestyle rapper and lots of other people contributing to the hippyness, had some French weed, went to get some more beer with Mandy. Mandy who became my favourite hippy in 5 minutes, the whole attitude was cool and laid back. The rest of the night we talked, sung, smoked and drunk togheter on this grassfield in the middle of a parking lot. One word to describe this? UNFORGETTABLE! That night I went to bed happy, happy about new friends, happy about being in love, happy about meeting good people! Because meeting good people makes you forget!
The next morning after another breakfast we figured out we’d kinda seen most of Milan. So we went to the park again, went to a aquarium and to a museum, we took it really really really easy that day. But that night we had a pow-wow again, again lots of beer, a couple of new musicians (including me! Because the Spanish guys gave me a kazoo) also a Mexican guy with a percussion box, the American freestyler and a American jack Johnson singer! One massive group of young travelers enjoiing the music and the warm summer nights of Milan!
The day after after saying goodbye to our Spanish friend we (Franzi, Mandy, Max and me) went to Como, a half an hour train ride from Milan. Franzi’s travel book suggested to go to the lake and it was worth it! A giant lake in the surrounded by mountains, a waterplane airport in the middle, nice architecture are one of the ingredients we used for making a wonderful day! After a feast lunch (with watermelon, beer, baguette with pesto, tomato and mozzarella) we went for a walk, after we digested the food we went for a peddleboat ride on the lake (which was absolutely worth the money). Unfortunately we had to say goodbye to Max because his holiday ended in Como and he had to go back to Milan to catch a bus.
After that we too a train up the mountain and walked there for an hour, till we got picked up by an old busdriver, we didn’t have to pay and he took us all the way to the top. From where we had a stunning view over Como and the Alps. After chilling out for a while on the mountain we walked back and took the train to Milan, where we had dinner and a short music night which ended in a massive thunderstorm. Hail of about 1,5 cm, massive amount of rain flooded the street in a wink, me and mandy found shelter in a busstop where we met a lady of the night who laughed about us being barefooted. We danced in the rain and returned to the hostel soaked. in the hostel we met 3 english chicks with a crazy plan. Let us all get a burnmark, hehe… we sat down and all burned ourselves with the 4 points of a fork. Crazy!!! But memory forever!
Now I’m tired and am off to bed…
Tomorrow is Sziget!!!Franzi is getting ill and she can use some support!!! POST SOME COMMENTS!!!
2 comments:
Hey sweets!
It's been way too long since my last post -I'm so sorry, I haven't been visiting your block all this time.... it's the holiday! my brain totally refuses to work at all!!!! The only thing I can do is lying around, sleep, drink or eat -it's a nightmare!! (f.ex. because I am such a slow-reader and it took me like forever, I had during reading your blog two slices of cheese-bread, a chocolate-bar, a coffee and two glasses of juice)
It's really amazing, what you two have experienced yet -I WANT TO TOO!!! Especially the summer and sweaty-thingy would be pretty nice here in Hamburg (...but I'm still completely shocked by the information sur le sujet de chef's ass ...I DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW!!!)
Sooo, enough. I thank you for the stories and I'm trying to be a bit more adventorous too! And Franzi: STAY ALIVE!!! I need you here to party and chill with me!! Miss You so much!! (I hear alcohol can solve a lot of problems, maybe Youz wanna try that, until I'll be there to take care for You! ;) )
lots of kisses and kisses and hugs!! yours aurette
p.s. say alanis hello from me!
damnit... I made this shitty blogger-identity-thing, but I can't remember the password -the only thing I remember is, that it was SO EASY to remember..
what I wanted to say: thanks for the postcard Franzi! My mom gave it to me and I was so happy!!
again kisses! aurette
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