I'm Going on an Adventure (Alastair and Bini's Exchange Blog)

Woke up sick.  Had breakfast at hostel. Very stingy breakfast there wasn't much available.  Decided that I didn't care i was sick.  I was meeting my friend Mateo today. For backstory I met Mateo in year 11 when he was in Australia on exchange.  Left hostel at 10. Met Mateo at 11 at the Duomo. Also we met mateos long time girlfriend Irene. First they took us to the duomo ticket office where we got tickets naturally while talking and catching up. Mateo is currently studying med in Milan and Irene is studying Physics. Like med in Australia Mateo has a 6 year degrees plus 5 years in a hospital training and working.  After getting tickets we had to buy Irene and bini scarves to cover up their exposed skin to get into the duomo. Irene was in a dress with bare shoulders and bini's shorts were too short.  Anyway got into the duomo. It's huge!!!!! I never realised just how big from the outside. But it's the second largest church in Europe after St Marks church in th...

Slept in till 9.  Had breakfast.  Stocked up on bananas and pastries. Got told off by the owner of the super market because our bags were too big (big packs).  Got on train from riomaggiori to la spezia. (This time instead of the central station we had to go to the mig... Something)  Anyway made the next train to parma. It was late... For a change  Arrived late to parma but luckily our train to Milano was late as well so we made it. Yay no waiting in station forever.  Arrived at Milano at about three (I think not sure). Then took the milan subway to the hostel. (Number 2 then number 1)  Walked last bit to hostel. In separate dorms tonight. Dumped bags, charged phones and then went searching for dinner.  Hostel isn't in a great area and struggled to find any dinner that wasn't insanely over priced and had bad reviews.  Ended up walk about half an hour to a more trendy part of town where we want to loverly Italian restaurant which was designed ...

Woke up. Bini had got sick over night. Probably due to us abusing our bodies swimming and then walking.... Still worth it  Had breakfast. I went down and got more milk.  Bini slept for the morning really wasn't well. thought it would be a good idea for her to recover.  Had foccacia for lunch. I bought that on my own so well.  Bini feeling a bit better so we decided to do a ferry trip from riomaggiori to monterosso and the train back. If she was up to it we would walk from vernazza to cornoglia.  Ferry was great. Got some lovely pictures of cinque Terre on the go pro.  At monterosso we bought our souvenirs and had a gelato. I think I had hazelnut and caramel and bini had hazelnut and raspberry. (Bini confirmes my memory).  Bini feeling better so decided to do walk. (Not a lot better but she's stubborn and wanted to do it... So did I... So we did it)  Walked closed at 6. Left monterosso at 5. Bought hiking pass which we supposedly needed to get into...

Left airbnb at 9:50 to make our 10:30 trian. Forgot to take rubbish out but I told they owner and they were fine with it.  Got on first train to pisa. Train left the station 15 minutes late and arrived 10 minutes that which meant we missed our connection to La spezia.  Waited and hour at the station and had left over pesto pasta for lunch which we ate with our hands due to that fact we had no fork.  Got next train to la spezia and got connection to riomaggiori.  At rio we walked up the main St to the office of our appartments owner to wait for him. Waited about 20 minutes then met him. He was a loverly and very very organised and efficient. Ran us through everything including walks and how long they should take.  The appartment was lovely and had fridge which was an unexpected bonus and we could eat breakfast at home :D. Had bit got of a rest till dinner.  Had probably the most unhealthy dinner a we have had this holiday of a large bucket of calamari. Took ...

Woke up at 9. Had cereal for breakfast. Left house at 11 and went for swim Found treadmill rock (a rock completely covered in moss which you can run on and slide down) Had great swim  Both super tired  Went home and slept  Had forccaxia for lunch  For dinner had pizza  Then did walk from cornoglia to manarola  Lots of uneven, steep stairs at start, was death. Lots of mosquitoes too.  After about an hour of going up stairs, finally reached a flat. Middle was lovely and flat with fantastic veiws.   Went through a persons front garden in the walk. (It was marked as a walking path and everything)  More Deathly stairs to end.  Chose the panoramic path which was more harder but prettier. Made us take longer to get back. Did last bit of walking in dark, headlamps very useful.  Went home and slept  Gonna dot point blogs from now on till I catch up. Sorry. 

Slept in till 10  Bini stayed at home Alastair got shopping. Few interesting characters at supermarket.  Made it to quiditch world cup at 2. Missed Australia vs USA game. Australia lost. Which means they are now out of the tornement. Makes no sense why that had to play them again. The seeding was horrible. Did washing at friends airbnb ad they had a washing machine. Also put it out for drying.  Then went back to watch UK get smashed by USA. Very satisfying. Did I mention I don't like the UK team...  Consilation matches cancelled as the organisation was horrible. Sadly this meant veitnam missed one of  their matches. Are well I think they came 15th out of 29 in the end which is amazing. Australia got eighth I think. Although not sure. Main pitch took ages to set up. Again awful organisation.  Watched 3rd 4th match which was turkey vs UK. Turkey played amazingly. Most beautiful quiditch we've ever seen. It was so cool!! They also beat UK  convincingly wh...

Woke up early 6:00. Had breakfast of the normal then headed off to our leeds quiditch teams airbnb to  meet them before going to the world cup.  Got to teams place at 8:30 when they said they were gone a leave. Unsurprisingly No one was ready. Ended up leaving at 9:15. Bini feeling much better today which is good.  Went to world cup. Followed team veitnam around as an old leeds player was their captain and we didn't want to support team UK because they are assholes.  Went back to friends house to have lunch and stole some pesto pasta from them.  Went back to the world cup to watch  Australia vs USA. Australia lost hut only just. It was a good game very close. Pretty funny at one point one of the Australians got tackled around the neck and all the Aussie fans (myself included) yelled "high" as on the footy rule. Naturally no one else there new what we where trying to say hahaha.  Left world cup late around 7:30 - 8 super hungry.  Had dinner at a pl...