La primera settimana

The first week is already over. And my head is full of bits of Italian, mixed with French, Spanish, English and German. I'm spending a lot of time studying (really! although I try to do it on the beach whenever possible), so there's not sooo much going on. Having said that, we had a good meal last Wednesday at Alle 2 Torri and an excellent aperitivo on Friday night (have to recheck the name of the bar). Aperitivo in Italia is really good: before dinnertime, many bars have a buffet where you can help yourself to unlimited snacks (for free) while you drink. The one we went to was amazing, they kept bringing new, freshly made stuff all evening, and we didn't even to go to dinner afterwards.

On Saturday, the weather was great, so we decided to go to Portofino. When we got off the train we were a bit disappointed. Yes, it was a nice little town, but really not much different from many Italian seaside towns. It only took us a couple of hours to realise that we weren't in Portofino yet ;-) To get there, it was another 5 km. Ramses (one of the guys in the appartment) and I decided to walk it, while Lada and Nicky (the other two) decided to just relax on the beach in Santa Margherita (which was the name of the town we were actually in). It was a lovely walk along the coast, and when we finally arrived, we understood what all the hype was about! It's a tiny fishing village (400 people live there) in a bay - and just picture-postcard-perfect. I think we were lucky in that it was probably the last weekend when it wasn't too overrun with tourists. Unfortunatly, I forgot my camera and can't get the pics from my mobile on here (yet).

On Sunday morning it started pouring and hasn't really stopped since. Very good for studying Italian!