Sunday, 19 April 2009

Perugian's are just mean!

So we landed in Glorious sunshine, i'd just like to point out that it was not glorious sunshine, it was quite nice but scott just insisted it was "glorious", took of his jumper and put on his cowboy hat. So mine and Dani's accounts of the walk from the plane to the airport differ slightly (the airport was tiny though, like 3 times the size of Mfuee international for anyone that means anything too). But we do both agree that since leaving the airport its been pretty much cloudy and rainy. We got a bus into town, then another bus to the train station, then a third bus to our hostel, except that the bus driver wouldn't tell us where our stop was (ok, so i don't speak fluet Italian, but repeating the name of the stop he knows we want to go to in a questioning voice just after he's stopped  somewhere is pretty obviously meant to mean "is the Caso Neuvo"?). In the end we took a lucky guess and got off - we were wrong. After discovering this (and realising busses only run every hour) we decided to ask a few people for help. Dani had the first attempt, crossing the street to talk to an old Lady waiting for the bus on other side of the road, she came back to report that it didn't go well. I tried the same woman, and all she would say too me was something very fast in Italian that included the words "Italian" and "Tourist" - my only guess was that she meant "I'm Italian, your a tourist" as if it was the same as saying "I'm a Montegue, your a Capulet". I wondered down the road and found a similar old woman, who repeatedly said the word "Pergia" and pointed at the floor, then wagged her finger at me for a bit, then wondered off.
Eventually we called the Hostel, who very kindly came and found us, we'd got off the bus quite a bit to early, it was about a 10 or 15 minute drive to the bus stop we should have got off at.
We've spent the rest of the day in the hostel, wondered down to find a bar and get some food, who were very friendly, they even leant us an umbrella for the walk home in the rain.
For this evening we ordered Pizza, at about 7.30 we ordered it, were told it would not be here until 9.00, then it finally got here just a second ago at 9.30.
So far we're not too impressed by our first stop, and may leave a bit early, but we are trying not to judge it too much, tommorrow is a new day and we'll give it a chance then. There's a chocolate factory and wine tasty nearby aswell apparently! :)

Scott (Dani currently not here).

Song of the Moment: Oasis - Why Does It Always Rain On Me

3 comments:

  1. Lol, posted you on facebook so you may get some more followers :)

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  2. Perhaps you should have done that teach yourself italian CD before you went!!!!!
    Do go into Perugia centre before you give up on it totally though

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  3. I gave it to Dani for a reason - and yes she should have done it before we went, I've told her this already (she much more of a liguist than me, I keep speaking to Italians in French).

    Scott

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