Last night the plan for mass did not go so well, we got our times wrong and so have decided to try again another day.
Aperitivi went much better: 5€ for a drink (alcoholic or not) and an all you can eat buffet italian style. Visions of american food buffets can be wiped from your mind this instant: there were a few bars covered in hot platters of authentic italian food: chunks of parmasan, pork, salamis, warm and cold pasta salads, rosemary infused potato wedgeds, foccacia breads with different flavors, mini pizzas - real top nosh.
Today the plan for Parma did not happen because of cancelled trains, when the second one was cancelled we decided to get tickets for Bologna instead and spent the day there (our tickets to Parma are valid for the next two months). Bologna was lovely, we found the piazza and went to the cathedral which is much bigger and even more colourful than the duomo in Modena. We walked around all day (tired legs now) and got a pizza together. We carried on walking for a bit longer and went back to the station and caught the next train home, a very sleepy bunch we were too.
Tomorrow the crowds arrive as it's the first official date of arrival, however Nerea and I are going to try and move to our permanent rooms tonight to avoid the madness tomorrow, we also intend to carry on sharing (yay friends for life!)
A presto...
Toma :)
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