Hello again! / Tervist taas!
Yesterday we managed to get to Bologna by Blablcar driver and get hosted by a really nice CouchSurfer. / Saabusime eile Bolognasse, kasutades selleks Blablacar teenust (nagu meie endine keskuhu) ja meid majutas üks tore noor itaallanna.
We were given a great tour around the town and fed like it was our last time to eat. / Meile näidati kõiki selle linna nurgataguseid ja söödeti nagu see oleks meie viimne söögikord.
In the morning, I woke up, checked whether we had a driver towards Bologna with the Blablacar service and as I learned that we had one for 9 o'clock, I woke up Lele and we quickly said bye to Anna and ran towards the metro station to reach the other end of Milan with the next 20 to 30 minutes. Before we managed to get out of her premises, we also had to climb the fence, as the gate could only be opened with a key we did not have.
We arrived to the metro station, bought two tickets again for 3€ and went on the red line, only to change the metro five stops later to get onto the green line. As we arrived to our destination, Mattia (the driver) and Marco (the fellow traveler) were already waiting for us. We sat into the car and our journey towards Bologna started.
We made a little stop at one Autogrill (a place on the highway, made for tanking both the car and yourself), where we bought a cold coffee (almost like frappe, but it had espresso on the bottom and then coffee ice cream or flurry on top of it, unmixed. It was quite good, it woke us up and only costed 2.90€.
We continued the ride and I found out that Mattia, who was studying architecture, was also a sailing instructor and Marco was in the field of doing movies. We also discussed the idea of university, only to find out the system was quite same (and ineffective) in Italy as it is in Estonia. Fun thing is that even though the speed limit on the highways seemed to be 90 to 110 km/h, then most drivers seemed to drive with 140km/h, as did ours.
Finally we arrived to Bologna, paid 10€ per face for the ride (in total 20€ for 250km, not bad) and the guys told us where to walk. As we were walking on the main shopping street, we were looking for a place with Wi-Fi to talk to our host, Flavia, about where will we meet. We first went to a cafe, where we bought two little cookies for 1.40€, as we thought it would be polite if we were to use their restroom and Wi-Fi. Unfortunately the Wi-Fi stopped working before we got to use it - probably the owner turned it off for some reason.
We then kept on going, reached to a square where they had Wi-Fi for us to use. We contacted Flavia and she gave us the directions towards her house. 15 minutes later we arrived to a corner where Flavia picked us up and showed us the way to her home (later to be known as her friends home which she was "babysitting").
She then made us one of the best pasta with a really good tomato sauce and we ate it, drinking red wine and sharing our travel stories. Then we just sat on the couch and kept on talking until it was time for us to go to the city. We took two bikes and the three of us were ready to move.
She showed us the universities, some of the most famous places for students to gather and started to show some of the secrets of Bologna (seven to be exact). Firstly we saw that the are writings on the ceilings of the street (oh yes, this medieval city has all of its streets covered with roofs so it looks really amazing and you can never get wet when walking around to town - but you have to see it by yourself to understand what I mean). One of those said in Latin: "Canabis protecto." - which in fact means that plants or medicine protects our health, but the nowadays youth takes it a bit more literally, that cannabis protects our health.
Then she showed a place where you can whisper to the wall only that the person in the other corner would listen in. And then we met up a friend of her, Rocco, that I had also asked to get a couch at, only to receive the answer a bit later than Flavia's. He was with two Russian travelers - Olga and Sergio, and for the rest of our tour, they joined us.
We saw a statue of god Neptune, that used to have a really long penis, but as the people living in the town did not like it, it was sewed off, and the hand of the statute was moved so that from one side you can still see the long penis. After that we were shown a church that had six other churches built into it. Then a arrow in the ceiling with another cool story.
Finally the Russian friends from Kaliningrad wanted to get a bite, so we were taken to a nice tavern, where we ordered a big bruchetta with mozzarella and tomatoes. Later we were ordered a local sandwich that had ham and cheese and was really good. As a desert, we had a mascarpone dish that was delicious as well. All in all we paid 4€ (as Flavia had some coupons to cut the price by half).
Then we were shown a place where people usually sit in front of a church in the night time (funny thing, most of the squares where youth, where spends their time in the night time, are always situated next to a church) and where Pakistani guys sell illegal alcohol (normal beer that just should not be sold anymore as it is night time) for 2€ each (we took two and shared the costs with all of us, so we paid 1€).
As the Russian friends wanted to reach to the airport, Rocco was keen to take them there and we went to Flavia's home, where we watched Jackass 3 in Italian and drank a bit of Amaretto, before we went to sleep.
All in all our costs were the following:
* 2.90€ for the coffee.
* 20€ for the ride.
* 1.40€ for the little cakes.
* 4€ for dinner.
* 1€ for beer.
= 29.30€ in total.
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Have a great day and talk to you soon! / Ilusat päeva ja räägime varsti.
Sander Gansen
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