ROMA, ANCONA, PORTO ST. ELPIDIO, MILANO and ZüRICH and now LUXEMBURG!!

okey okey...don't really know where to start...The time goes way too fast and I've had so much to do during the last few days of my trip, so I haven't really been online at all..

Now I got to tell you everything what I've been up to...to be prepared: it's gonna be a looong message...haha!

Well..I arrived to Roma late in the evening, around 10pm..it took me quite a long time to get to Roma terminal (railwaystation) where I was supposed to meet up with this Umberto. When I finally got there, after a long and swetty train ride, where I had to stand during 40min with my heavy backpack, Umberto was already waiting for me... We took directly the metro to his flat, which wasn't that far away from the center.
We went for a small snack and then I prefeared to stay at home and take have a long sleep..Well..When I contacted this guy..I thought that I would get an own bed or madrass or something to sleep on...BUT when we got in to his flat he didnt have anything else to offer me than to share the bed with him!!!!!!!!!! I was VERY surprised and I was kind of NOT expecting this...not at all..!! well..I had no choice..luckily the bed was VERY big...but I didn't really sleep that well, cos I slept almost on the wall..hahah!

We got up at 9am, because I wanted to have the whole day to see everything I wanted to see and what I've always dreamt about to visit :) We started with : Vatikan: It was just sooooo incredible!!!!! all the paintings, rooms, sculptures etc etc. WOW!!! I could have spent there the whole day, but I had to hurry up to have the time to see the other parts of the city too...which was really a shame...Next time I go there, I'll spend one day there, at least!!
Next stopp was: plazza s.Pietro, pantheon, fontana di trevi, piazza venezia, foro romano, colosseo, campidoglio...!! too many places for one day...!!

Okey..back again:

In the evening I was going to meet up with Maria, a friend of mine from my exchange year in Belgium, she is from Dominican Rep. Surprise surpirse she was at the same time in Rome !!!!! It was such a big surprise for me when I got to know this!!! :) Soo, I went out with her and her friends for dinner. It was so much fun!! We ate in this very sweet and small restaurang..which we thought wouldnt be that expensive, because the food wasn't THAT special...but in the end it turned out that we had to pay like 20euros each for it!!!!! which was a bit of surpirse for us!! After this we went to a bar which was soo nice and italian. we drank few drinks there and talked a lot. It was so nice to see how things still were the same between me and Maria even though we havent seen each others nor kept that much in touch during 4 years, that's real friendship ;) hihi!! well, we didn't stay that late because I had to get up so early to catch my train to Ancona and Maria had to catch her flight to Belgium.
So I took the night buss together with Umberto.. I went directly to bed because I was soo tierd...but I didn't really get ANY sleep because he didnt sleep..he was just smoking and watching tv in the same room where I was trying to sleep...! Soo.. in the morning when I had to get up I was sooo tierd..After I've finished the bag I left his flat and went to the railway station. I had a very Italian breakfast, pizzaaaa!! they have this excellent restaurangs where you only have to pay 1e/gram.. At 11.38 I took my train to Ancona.

When I finally arrived to Ancona..after a bit awkward trip in the train beeing watched of an Italian guy almost the WHOLE trip from Ancona to Porto St. Elpidio Nicola was already waiting for me... ON TIME!!! hahah, which was something new!! hehe ;) nothing personal...hihi. So when I got out of the train I heard him screaming: TERVEEEEEEEEEE!!! haha...which is something he has been calling me since we met in Helsinki..;) It was sooo GREAT to see him again. We had soo much to talk about and joke about..hihih!! We drove first to his summer house, where we were going to sleep. After that we drove back to his house to meet his family, who had been waiting for me for so long :) which was really nice to know :) I met his whole family and they were soo soo nice!!! I really liked them a lot. Later in the evening we had this huge and loud dinner with his family, and two friends of Nicola: Matteo and Pablo. It was sooo much fun!! and what a noice..hahah...everyone was talking at the same time..it was really a funny dinner, I enjoyed it a lot. After dinner we went out for a fast drink, because everyone of us were soo tierd..we drove for a while in the center of Porto St. Elpidio and later in the night me and Nicolette decided to rent a movie, Eragon, even though we both were sooo dead. But it was a really nice movie.

Next morning we got up pretty eraly, because we werent sure what time I should catch my train.. And at the same time his whole family was trying to talk me over to stay stillone more night, which would have been sooo great...but I knew that I had to move on.. :( So before I left his wonderful family we had this very good Italian dinner and we visited as well his grandparents HUGE house!! :)
The it was already time to go...:( But i'm sure that I'll go back to St. Elpidio one day very soon..I hope.

The train trip from Ancona to Milan felt sooooooo long, well it toom about 8h, so that explains it a bit...but I was getting crazy in the small cabin which I was sharing with an Italian family who ate all the time! I'm not kidding..!! and poor me was soo hungry cause I didn't have anything with me..just a bottle of water...hehe!
I arrived to Ancona at 19.50. Angelo had already been waiting for me for about 4h, because he thought I would had arrived earlier.. :( pooor guy ;) hihi. We took the most noisy metro ever for about 15min!!! it was terrible, you couldnt talk at all because it was sooo noisy!!baaah!! After this we drove for about 30min to Crema, a small town where he lives in a flat with his friend. It was a very nice place. After dinner and shower and some good wine we went to the center to meet up with few friends of Angelo. When we finally got there we went to an Irish pub and had a great time talking in english or at least trying to, hihihi, and trying to learn Italian..which is always very funny. After this we drove to Angelos' friends flat where we spent few hours. Later on we drove back to Angelos flat and before this we made a very short tour in the town by car.

In the morning we had to get up pretty eraly..but Angelo was so sweet that he got up ealyer to make us breakfast:) thank you for this! :) We had a breakfast and at the same time I tryed to find a place to stay in Zürich..unfortunately I didn't find any place so when we left from his flat I didn't know where and IF I was going to find somewhere to sleep in... hehe!
Before taking the train from Milan, we went for a visit in Milan; just a very very short and fast one. I saw the Doum and the huge plaça infront of it. We had this very good and tasty cappucino and then it was already time to get to the train. Again this was way too short visit..:( too bad!

The trip from Milan to Zürich was the BEST trip ever!!!! It was soo soo BEAUTIFUL!!!! I was very tierd because I hadn't slept that much the night before, but I didn't allow myslef to miss something so beautiful; I just had to see everything. The train passed through the alpes and the laces, I could do that trip again..and if you are planning to go inter railing, make sure that you are going to Switzerland. The trip went really well, I met a very nice American couple in the train with whom I was talking quite a lot with.
When we arrived to Zürich railwaystation the first thing I did was that I had to find a turist info. In the turist info the lady told me that there are only two Youth Hostels in here and that one of them is overbooked and the other one should have places left..So when I got to know this I ran to the tram and hurried up to get there before everything would be taken. But I had a small problem with buying my tram ticket, I think I stood about 10min infront of the ticket machine and tryed and tryed to buy my ticket when there came a girl and asked me what was my problem..well I explained her that this machine wont take my money..so I gave her my coins and when she saw my money she just told me laughing that they don't use euros in here!! hahah!! and the most stupid thing was that I knew this and I was thinking of changing money before I go to the hostel, but I had forgotten it, totally.
So when I finally got to the tram and was on my way to the hostel I was q bit nervous because I wasn't sure if this is going to work out or not. After 10min ride I got of the tram and felt myself very lost, luckily I met this girl with a huge backpack and I asked her if she is going to the same hostel; YES she was. :) Jess was from America. From the very beginning we had so much to talk about and we were really lucky that there were place in the same room ( I got one of the very LAST beds!!!). Later in the evening we went for a walk and dinner in to the center. It was a really nice evening. After dinner we decided to continue our visit and after a while we met up this group of ex inter railers and they were sooo happy to meet us. They wanted us to join them to this Brasilian party just close by, which was very nice! So we stayed with them for couple of hours and had a very nice time.
After this we started to walk back to the tram and to our hostel. When we got to the hostel we weren't that tierd so we stayed in the lobby and talked a lot with the other young ppl.

The newt morning we had to get up quite early so that we wouldn't miss the breakfast. After checking out from my room we went to the center for a short walk. It was really nice.
At 12.02 I had to take my train... I changed train in Basel to get to Luxembourg.
Finally in Luxembourg Misch and his mother was already waiting for me:) It was great seeing them again. We drove back to their house and went directly after this to meet up whit his friends who were bulding a boat! haha. In the evening we had dinner at Misch place and after dinner we went to this pub where I've been almost every time I've been visting Misch, it's called Aula. There I met as well Rebecca!! So we had this small CISV reunion. It was great!

Next morning after packing my bag, we went to this medival festival where Misch is working. we spent few hours there before I had to catch my train back to Belgium.


















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well well...Now I'm back in Belgium, again. It's really wierd to be back after such a long trip in Europe! It was really an awesome trip and I would love to travel still for few weeks, three weeks were a bit short. But I'm glad to be back in Belgium to meet up with old friends. :)

For all exchange students who are reading my blog: as today is wednesday and the FIRST wednesday of the month: BIG LIèGE!!!!!!!!! I'm going to meet up with Maria, the girl from Dominican Republic, to celebrate and to continue with our tradition. I really hope to meet some new exchange students too. But it wont be the same...somehow it's a bit depressing to be here without You... well well..c'est la vie koi!?!

Well..gotta go now. Hope that you are doing well. See you soon!!!

groos bisous