Monday night in Bologna John threw a little dinner party for my last night in Italy with some of his friends and roomates. We ate chickpea curry and pita on the roof of their apartment building and looked at Venus and Jupiter through Johns's telescope. After a lot of wine, good company, and 4am pasta, I saw the sunrise over Bologna, a perfect red ball lighting up the town. Andreas, John's German roomate who is now more Italian than German, suggested a trip to the beach town of Ravenna, so we caught a 7am train and spend the morning and afternoon laying on rented lounge chairs under a beach umbrella and running throught the hot sand to the warm water. Although not one of the nicer beach areas of Italy, I can say I did make it to the beach in Italy now. I rather sleepily packed and ran around from bus to bus to airport and arrived late into London after an hour flight delay. My old friend from Australian times met me at the airport and since an angry crowd was waiting for a broken down bus to Cambridge, we had a free taxi ride back to Pritesh's apartment where I have a great place to crash for the next few days. James is coming down from Sheffield on the afternoon train in a couple of hours, so the three of us will have a little runion from our days of backpacking around the Outback this evening. Plans for the next few days are a little up in the air, but they will involve some time in London and a trip to Wales, perhaps over the weekend.
Ta,
Nicole
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