If you were there
Below an email I got from a Kiwi friend of mine, Sunita, who happened to be in Italy for an historical moment of our country. This email gave my goosebumps: thanks, Sunita!
Hi, yeah we were a couple of hours out of Rome in Bolsena near a beautiful lake.
I'll start from the beginning...
On our first night in italy we had hired a car in Milan and drove along the coast to Genova.
got terribly lost and were driving around the streets for hours and hours looking for a hostel.
This was the same night Italy were playing Germany.
As soon as the game finished the town came alive... not much fun when we didnt know what fricken direciton to drive in.
There were cars everywhere, honking horns, letting of crackers and leaning out their car windows flying flags. We could hardly hear each other speaking.
it was a cool night and we were a bit gutted we missed the game. we never did manage to find a hostel that night and slept in the car.
About a week later it was the final. Bolsena is pretty small but we went down the town centre where they put up a huge screen in the square. The whole town seemed to be out watching...even a 90 yr old granma in a wheelchair and oxygen mask who started singing the national anthem when the game started.
it was the best atmoshphere ive ever being in... everyone was shouting wildly, cursing (i think) and just having the best time. it wasnt quite the same when we didnt know what they were saying.
Once the game was over everyone again piled into their cars and started doing laps of the town centre. this time there were cars, trucks, scooters and even a tractors driving around honking their horns, singing the anthem and flying flags. we went out and watched and took photos till about 1am.
Once they were done with the driving around they started pouring buckets of water at each other... time for us to go home at that point.
We got to Rome the day of the parade around capitol square. unfortunately we missed it but saw it on tv. It looked mad!
Since the final everyone on the metro has been humming the national anthem... sounds similar to that white stripes song. Very funny!
Anyhow... im sure thats enough detail for you... hopefully i didnt bore you with it.
Italy has been really cool... you have a great country and the people fantastic. Maybe except those at train stations in rome. ha
Would love to work in tuscany some day... maybe I'll have to learn italian.
I was annoyed with myself for not learing more italian words off you...i remember bwon journo though.
anyway better dash. Hope everything is going well in sydney.
ciao
Hi, yeah we were a couple of hours out of Rome in Bolsena near a beautiful lake.
I'll start from the beginning...
On our first night in italy we had hired a car in Milan and drove along the coast to Genova.
got terribly lost and were driving around the streets for hours and hours looking for a hostel.
This was the same night Italy were playing Germany.
As soon as the game finished the town came alive... not much fun when we didnt know what fricken direciton to drive in.
There were cars everywhere, honking horns, letting of crackers and leaning out their car windows flying flags. We could hardly hear each other speaking.
it was a cool night and we were a bit gutted we missed the game. we never did manage to find a hostel that night and slept in the car.
About a week later it was the final. Bolsena is pretty small but we went down the town centre where they put up a huge screen in the square. The whole town seemed to be out watching...even a 90 yr old granma in a wheelchair and oxygen mask who started singing the national anthem when the game started.
it was the best atmoshphere ive ever being in... everyone was shouting wildly, cursing (i think) and just having the best time. it wasnt quite the same when we didnt know what they were saying.
Once the game was over everyone again piled into their cars and started doing laps of the town centre. this time there were cars, trucks, scooters and even a tractors driving around honking their horns, singing the anthem and flying flags. we went out and watched and took photos till about 1am.
Once they were done with the driving around they started pouring buckets of water at each other... time for us to go home at that point.
We got to Rome the day of the parade around capitol square. unfortunately we missed it but saw it on tv. It looked mad!
Since the final everyone on the metro has been humming the national anthem... sounds similar to that white stripes song. Very funny!
Anyhow... im sure thats enough detail for you... hopefully i didnt bore you with it.
Italy has been really cool... you have a great country and the people fantastic. Maybe except those at train stations in rome. ha
Would love to work in tuscany some day... maybe I'll have to learn italian.
I was annoyed with myself for not learing more italian words off you...i remember bwon journo though.
anyway better dash. Hope everything is going well in sydney.
ciao
4 Comments:
It is strange Augusto as I was talking about you last night to a guy who looks like you and has some of your characteristics. He is Brzilian, but like many Brazilians (there is no typical Brazilian!) he is of Italian decent. He spoke and thought like you (a bit) although he was older so not as extroverted as you (but it still was a little) but he had more hair! Enjoy and speak soon.
By Dean Johnstone, At 12:17 AM
Augustoooooo... congrats, I know you must enjoy the feeling!!!!
I was watching the game in the middle of the night at a friends place and we were all very excited about Italy winning. See, even the Swiss like Italy being campioni del mondo. :)
Hope to see you again soon,
Greetings from Singapore,
PatriCK
By CK, At 9:37 AM
hey Augusto!
you know what? I guess I had more Italy while watching the match than you did! I'm in Dublin at the moment, making afternoon and evening program for Italian kids studying Eng here. We watched the game all together in a huge bar room, there were about 400 children in the place. The atmosphere was amazing! So much green, white, red and blue all around, ppl shouting, jumping, getting crazy. And the smiles and happines when you won! Great!
Congratulations! jason
By jason, At 1:31 PM
this blog needs an update.
By chitgo, At 10:52 AM
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