Thursday 5th July
Having no arrivals and no departures I found myself with an
unofficial day off. Don’t you hate it when that happens? Not quite sure what to
do with myself, I decided I deserved a tent version of a duvet day. Biscuits,
sheet (too hot for an actual duvet), fizzy pop and a good film, I had
everything that I needed. So when my phone rang with an offer of a bus trip to
anywhere I hoped that the adventure would be better than what did have planned
for my day.
Liat had called and said she and Wafa were getting a bus to
Jesolo and then getting a bus from there to anywhere. I decided that was too good
an opportunity to miss and quickly paused my film, and finished the rest of my
biscuits.
At the Bus station we decided we would jump on the bus to
San Dona Di Piave, find ourselves a nice park, and drink the two cans of Beer
we had just bought from Lidl, which presumable would be nice and warm by the
time we got there.
The bus drove and drove and drove and we saw little village
after little village after little village. We finally realised we had arrived
when we saw the train station (Praise the Lord for signs eh) but the bus seemed
to continue onwards so we thought, let’s just see where we end up. That was our
mistake. We rode the bus around the same round about what felt like 5 times and
I was beginning to feel a little car sick, when our destination presented
itself. We had finally arrived, at an out of town shopping centre, think
Trafford Centre, but on a much smaller scale!
Proud of our selves for arriving at the retail park without
any prior planning we posed for the obligatory pictures. We tried to get one of
all three of us by asking, in our best pidgin Italian, a passing local if he
would take our picture. Clearly our breathing was an imposition to this man and
he huffed as he gave me the dirtiest look I’ve received since being in Italy. Luckily a young couple who had seen his
refusal offered their help. We posed and smiled and laughed when trying to
explain that our camera was broke (screen didn’t work) but would still take
pictures, so they pointed the lens in our general direction and hoped we would
be in the shot.
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| Yes I was off to the beach |
Much of the afternoon was spent in the shopping centre,
looking at much of the same things we can buy in our own supermarkets close to
our campsites and then utilising the best thing that MacDonald’s has to offer,
free WiFi! Battery’s drained it was time for bus’s back and a quick powernap.
Hardly as exciting a day as I had first envisaged, but we had a laugh.
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