la vita italiano (the Italian life)!

DAY 5 : 19 November 2014

Buongiorno or buonanotte or buonasera, depending on what the time zone is!

Yesterday and today have bought me some amazing adventures!

After school yesterday, both Francesca and Dario (my host parents) were out at their jobs (both entrepeneurs; Dario owns a building company, and Francesca owns a wedding dress shop), so Allegra and I took to the town for some nighttime sightseeing and SHOPPING! 

Udine looks possibly more amazing in the night than it does in the day!

We took the same route as the other day, up the hill and to the castle to take some photos of the view at night. Its a little blurry, but you get the idea...

Then for one of my personally favourite activities....shoooopppppiiiinnngggg!

The shops here are modern, new shops, but are squished in between all this beautifully old architecture! It really is fantastic...

During our shopping adventures, we just happened to walk past the same place in which we got macarons the other day, and couldn't resist another one (or two)!

And, as my whole days now seem to consist of food, we joined Francesca and Dario, and finished the day off with possibly the best pizza anyone could have in their entire life. And it wasn't like we shared one pizza between the four of us - no, the Italians have one whole pizza EACH! Just take a look at the size of that!

Today consisted of even more food adventures, this time with my first Italian gelato! The sun had come out and even though it was still a mldly brisk day of 11 degrees, it was too good to resist a walk into town with Francesca.

As my Italian is clearly not up to scratch, I just pick the food (in this case, the gelato) that looks the best - sort of like a guessing game. This time, I was definitely on par picking a vanilla/nuts/NUTELLA gelato... yum yum

Well that's all from me... enjoy your sausages and kangaroo Australia, while I'm here enjoying the pizzas and the gelato and the spaghetti and the gnocchi and the lasagna....

Love,

Jen