Mamma Mia!
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Trip End
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Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
Friday, August 27, 2010
Michele makes a point of not knowing a single word in English, but the whole time I was in Venice i practised really hard in my head to remember a few important words and phrases, and we got on ok in the first few hours. I presented him with the gluten free pasta i had brought with me and he said that he'd rather die than eat it, but he was happy to cook it for me :) His pasta sauce is amazing, very simple, but amazing.
Danila speaks a little English, but mostly is easier to talk to as she listens erally carefully and helps me where i stumble in Italian. They're so cool, very stylish, i love the way they think and live and eat.
Their son stefano works in English, and we went to dinner with him and his partner and it was a bit bad that i basically only spoke to him the whole night, but there was so much i wanted to ask and clarify and learn from him. Their other son Alessandro has moved to the Phillipines to marry his girl and they now have a little girl Michaela. She's so cute! They communicate on Skype every day.
We rode bikes around on Sat, and ate lots again, and Sunday we went to an old castle / monastery in the mountains, and looking for a restaurant after we accidentally drove into Slovenia. That doesn't often happen to one in Australia :) I had local wild boare and polenta, mmm so good. Best food of the trip!
Last night (Sun) i went to Stefano's partner's mother's place for dinner with their family. They lived in Cuba for 20 years and so all speak Spanish, and so i was answering questions half in italian half in spanish and we were all laughing, but damn that can mess up ur mind! <i have slept about 12 hours every day since i got here. I can feel the brain cells filling up!
So pretty much Italy is amazing, and i'm a bit sad to be leaving tomorrow, except that i'm leaving for Barcelona, so not too sad :P
Ciao a tutti!
Giovanna
