Long time, no see. It's because I got back from another youth exchange couple of days ago. So it's time for an update about my amazing life.On the day I started travelling to Italy, there was also our village concert in Vanemuine theater. It was a charity project that is held every year and it collects money for our village. The actors and actresses sing for free. This year the topic of the concert was 70-80's. The actors were dressed according to the style of these times and sang also very old songs. It was a really lovely concert.
Then, after the concert I went home where I packed my last things for the trip and changed clothes. Then Kaie took me to the bus station from where I went to Tallinn airport. When I got to the airport I had a lot of time so I tried to sleep on the benches. It was a little cold and very uncomfortable. Then arrived Lii and Meelika and half an hour later also Karel and Mart. Our team was together. We did a check-in and waited to get on the plane. We flew through Riga to Rome. So 
after two flights we arrived our first destination. We went by a local train from Fiumicino airport to Rome Termini (train station). We put our luggage there and took off to see the city. We decided to go on foot and discover the city that way. Our map-reader was Karel. Firstly we tried to get used to the traffic, which was so Italian. We headed towards Colosseum. On our way we saw one big building (unfortunately I have forgotten the name of it) and took pictures there. When we finally arrived at the Colosseum it seemed like it was going to rain soon. Luckily we had enough time to take pictures and rest a bit over there and we also walked the whole way around the Colosseum. It is a really big building. I wished we had had an opportunity to go inside, too, 
but that wasn't possible. Then, after seeing Colosseum we climbed some hills and saw The Forum from behind some gates. But we couldn't get in. So we wandered around some streets and finally got to see the Forum from one platform. It is really old. I felt the ancient times when even looking at it. Amazing! Then we saw some sculptures of Caesar and headed towards Vatican. On our way we saw Kapitholium,which was a very beautiful building. Then we also ate pizza in a place called VIP Pizza. Oh, how delicious the pizza was. I can still feel it on my tongue. 
Would love to have that again..... Anyway, finally we arrived in Vatican's main square. It wasn't as big as I had expected it to be but all the time I tried to find the markings that were mentioned in the "Angels and Demons" book by Dan Brown. I even recognized some - the fountain and the sculpture. We had a look around in the square but couldn't get in anywhere because it was late already and all Cathedrals had been closed. There was an exhibition about old books we tried to get in to, but it was only for invited quests. Pity. After exploring the square we headed back towards Termini to catch our train. We rested a bit in front of the Colosseum but then it started raining and we had to go to Termini. On our way we met Turkish guys trying to sell us umbrellas. Before they had tried to sell us scarfs. Guess 
they had something for every type of weather. Anyway, when we got back to Termini we had a lot of time until our train came, so we just sat there and hung around. When it was finally time to get on the train and we saw it, we were just speechless. It was a very old-looking train and we even couldn't imagine that trains like these move nowadays. We got into the train and into our coupe which was for 6 people. There were five of us and one old man also. This old man didn't definetely like us there. So, we were now stuck in the train for 10 hrs alltogether. There 
wasn't much space and as we tried to sleep we had our legs everywhere. I wish I had a good picture of it, because it looked extremely weird. Anyway we tried to sleep but didn't manage much. So in the morning when we got to Ardore (the city that we had to get off the train), we were pretty tired. But this doesn't matter. We got off the train and met Daniele and Massimilliano (first one was the organizer of the project, I had met him in Estonia two years ago). They took us by cars to Benestare, our final destination. We had a breakfast in local cafe and 
then went to our sleeping place. The place was colder than we expected but whatever... I had problems with opening my luggage because the lock had been broken. So the guys beated the lock with a rock and it broke and I had a chance to have a shower and change clothes. After everybody had refreshed themselves we went to explore the town. It was a small town in the mountains. You could see the sea also from this town. Orange trees were growing everywhere, there were lots of Fiat's and the streets were really small. Cute little town. We discovered a shop 
named Maria... The view from almost everywhere in the city was marvellous- mountains everywhere and some sea, too. Unfortunately the weather was cold... Then we had lunch which had two rounds. Oh, pasta :) We met Alessandro (I had met him before in Estonia) and Bruno and some more people. Bruno promised to take us to another city nearby (Siderno) where he was working. So at 4 p.m we drove by his car to this city. We went to the seaside and had a look around in the city. As it was cold we decided to have a cup of tea in a restaurant named Helios. And then started a complete pourdown. So we couldn't go 
anywhere anymore. We texted Bruno that we're stuck in this place. So when his job finished, he came to the place where we were, drank also a fast Espresso and then we went back to Benestare. The roads in the mountains were curvy so Meelika didn't feel very good and was ill some days afterwards. Unfortunately. In the evening we had dinner (more pasta) and after that we drank some wine and just chatted. At night the Czech group arrived. And then we went to sleep...
after two flights we arrived our first destination. We went by a local train from Fiumicino airport to Rome Termini (train station). We put our luggage there and took off to see the city. We decided to go on foot and discover the city that way. Our map-reader was Karel. Firstly we tried to get used to the traffic, which was so Italian. We headed towards Colosseum. On our way we saw one big building (unfortunately I have forgotten the name of it) and took pictures there. When we finally arrived at the Colosseum it seemed like it was going to rain soon. Luckily we had enough time to take pictures and rest a bit over there and we also walked the whole way around the Colosseum. It is a really big building. I wished we had had an opportunity to go inside, too, 
but that wasn't possible. Then, after seeing Colosseum we climbed some hills and saw The Forum from behind some gates. But we couldn't get in. So we wandered around some streets and finally got to see the Forum from one platform. It is really old. I felt the ancient times when even looking at it. Amazing! Then we saw some sculptures of Caesar and headed towards Vatican. On our way we saw Kapitholium,which was a very beautiful building. Then we also ate pizza in a place called VIP Pizza. Oh, how delicious the pizza was. I can still feel it on my tongue. 
Would love to have that again..... Anyway, finally we arrived in Vatican's main square. It wasn't as big as I had expected it to be but all the time I tried to find the markings that were mentioned in the "Angels and Demons" book by Dan Brown. I even recognized some - the fountain and the sculpture. We had a look around in the square but couldn't get in anywhere because it was late already and all Cathedrals had been closed. There was an exhibition about old books we tried to get in to, but it was only for invited quests. Pity. After exploring the square we headed back towards Termini to catch our train. We rested a bit in front of the Colosseum but then it started raining and we had to go to Termini. On our way we met Turkish guys trying to sell us umbrellas. Before they had tried to sell us scarfs. Guess 
they had something for every type of weather. Anyway, when we got back to Termini we had a lot of time until our train came, so we just sat there and hung around. When it was finally time to get on the train and we saw it, we were just speechless. It was a very old-looking train and we even couldn't imagine that trains like these move nowadays. We got into the train and into our coupe which was for 6 people. There were five of us and one old man also. This old man didn't definetely like us there. So, we were now stuck in the train for 10 hrs alltogether. There 
wasn't much space and as we tried to sleep we had our legs everywhere. I wish I had a good picture of it, because it looked extremely weird. Anyway we tried to sleep but didn't manage much. So in the morning when we got to Ardore (the city that we had to get off the train), we were pretty tired. But this doesn't matter. We got off the train and met Daniele and Massimilliano (first one was the organizer of the project, I had met him in Estonia two years ago). They took us by cars to Benestare, our final destination. We had a breakfast in local cafe and 
then went to our sleeping place. The place was colder than we expected but whatever... I had problems with opening my luggage because the lock had been broken. So the guys beated the lock with a rock and it broke and I had a chance to have a shower and change clothes. After everybody had refreshed themselves we went to explore the town. It was a small town in the mountains. You could see the sea also from this town. Orange trees were growing everywhere, there were lots of Fiat's and the streets were really small. Cute little town. We discovered a shop 
named Maria... The view from almost everywhere in the city was marvellous- mountains everywhere and some sea, too. Unfortunately the weather was cold... Then we had lunch which had two rounds. Oh, pasta :) We met Alessandro (I had met him before in Estonia) and Bruno and some more people. Bruno promised to take us to another city nearby (Siderno) where he was working. So at 4 p.m we drove by his car to this city. We went to the seaside and had a look around in the city. As it was cold we decided to have a cup of tea in a restaurant named Helios. And then started a complete pourdown. So we couldn't go 
anywhere anymore. We texted Bruno that we're stuck in this place. So when his job finished, he came to the place where we were, drank also a fast Espresso and then we went back to Benestare. The roads in the mountains were curvy so Meelika didn't feel very good and was ill some days afterwards. Unfortunately. In the evening we had dinner (more pasta) and after that we drank some wine and just chatted. At night the Czech group arrived. And then we went to sleep...
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ootasin seda postitust juba tükk aega ;):D
Sellele tuleb järge :)
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