Allison's Wonderland

You want to know why Sundays are the worst? Here in Italy EVERYTHING closes on Sunday. You can't even find a place to eat! The train schedules are completely cut down...there's just nothing open AT ALL! The last day of Jess & I's little weekend, we ended with Nervi and Genova. Nervi was pretty sweet. We ended up walking forever, but it was so cute. When we got off th train stop we were greeted with Orange trees and the smell of the ocean. There was also a cute little pathway that went right along the water. LOVED IT! So Jess was craving Focaccia and I wanted one of those specialty coffees that I've been obsessed with over the weekend. So we started to walk to the closest train station from Nervi. Which seemed like forever. We finally arrived in Genova to the Il Mile Train Station that's just right by Simona's parents house. Well because it was Sunday we had to wait for an hour for the next train. So instead of just sitting around, we bought some Clementine's from a street vendor, sat by the water, and then had to take some jumping pictures. We took probably 40 and the people that were also sitting out there just kept looking at us, like "Oh, stupid Americans." :) That's okay though, cause we had fun. Caught our train and made it to the main stop in the middle of Genova. During the week this place is normally hopping but there were probably 3 out of 75 shops open. We treked and treked for the precious focaccia and specialty coffee. I finally found a cafe that was open and sat and drank my Nutella Caffe to my hearts delight. While I drank, J.Berg was on a mission to find focaccia. To no avail. Niente! (Nothing). Poor girl. So disappointed but what can you do? Its Sunday, and like any good Catholic would do, they close the shops. Once we made our way back to Mondovi we were greeted with about 20 Hot Air Balloons in the sky. It was pretty cool, but it was distracting to say the least, and Jess almost ran us off the road twice. HAHA...Anyway, it was a spectacular weekend. I love how its like 70 degrees in mid-January. Just plain nuts!