Journey to Italy

So I left Germany a few days ago for Italy. The drive was beautiful. I found some carpoolers who were going down there. I hopped in their brand-new, silver Mercedes, and we flew down the autobahn going 200km/hr. What a nice relaxing drive, hahah.

We wound through the Alps, crossing enormous bridges over raging rivers. I did an Arnold Swartzenegger impression for almost the whole duration of our drive through Austria. They loved it.

We finally made it to Italy...a city called Verona. This is where they dropped me off. Interesting fact: Verona was the city which Romeo and Juliet took place in. Kewl. But I didn't feel like lingering, so I bought a ticket west to Bergamo.

I learned a very hard lesson that day...never forget to validate your train ticket in Italy. I was rushing to the platform, so I totally missed the little stamping thingie which puts a date on your train ticket. And the guy on the train fined me FIFTY EUROS...ON AN EIGHT EURO ticket!!! Uggghhhh...soooooo gay.

So needless to say, my first impression of Italy was somewhat tainted.