So, how are you?? You missed me, right? Here I am in Bremen! How come I only write now? I will explain in "The House", below ...
So where to start ... Let's go in chronological order ...
The trip
Alarm Saturday morning, at 5.00 (you read right), train at 6.15 from Porta Susa and finish at 9.45 in Verona in the company of Alex F. From the train shuttle that takes us and long wait at the airport for the Ryanair flight that would take us to Bremen. These two weeks of "vacation" I'm really blown away ...
There, as expected, even goats and Stewart first surprise came at check-in, where I discover that the balance of my house has cheated and is 2 kg over the limit ... I mean, not me, my suitcase ... Obviously I'm very strict on the thing and then I have to pay 16 euro extra return ... I'll be able to arrange better!
However, with the plane that leaves half an hour late, we arrive in Bremen. We head straight to the tourist office to understand something about public transport already there and there comes the first blow, the single ticket costs € 2.10! And so we continue up to today, where we'll have a monthly subscription, which luckily it only cost 30 ... However, after half an hour we arrived at our house, which is located in the district Gröpelingen, moderate peripheral ... We'll find out later that the same neighborhood is called by locals "Turkey 2," but we say that the thing we know it just got off the tram, because the German people from the lines there is not even the shadow ...
The House That
in these terms The area might seem unsavory ... not really is absolutely the case, here the integration really works. Although we are in an area where immigration is dominant (we also have a house behind the mosque), the area is very quiet, there are many beautiful houses, people have faces lying and I must say that so far we are pretty good here. In most stores the Turks here are famous for fruits and vegetables of excellent quality at low prices.
We have 3 apartments in the house, one on each floor, the apartments are for 3 people and I am with Cosimo and Sandro. The surprise, at the entrance, it was discovered that the three rooms are doubles, however, and all equipped with two beds and large enough. So the ability to host there, and if someone wants to visit me, do you hear! The house is right in each case for 3, the kitchen is small, the bathroom and only one (divided in 2, toilet and shower in one room in the other). The biggest mess (besides the lack of washing machine) is the lack of an internet connection, so the only chance I have to connect and university days, or go to an internet cafe ... here today only because I can update your blog. In addition, it has inevitable repercussions on the costs of telephone calls to Italy ....
The city: first impressions
premise of not having yet been able to shoot well, just arrived I found some resemblance to Amsterdam, the houses, the lanes for trams at grade, a lot of people that could very well invested in bike lanes if you walk towards them ... But then gradually the differences catches your eye. Let's say that we are in a typical northern European cities, through efficient and accurate (there are also several night buses that go on all night), all is well cared for gardens, parks, flower beds, etc ... But let
life night ... here are surely many more "dark" and / or "punk" than here, but all people quiet, sure we would do all another effect. We went dancing twice, and so far no kind of selection at the entrance, strange stories of lists or pain in the ass what happens to us because you show no girls in the room ... because we all as kids we would have many problems ... Definitely Mine is a partial view, having seen only three seats, but I liked going out, I had the impression that more people go to these places to really dance, and not from us that you go just to cool the and show that you know the pr and then you can enter without a tail ... Here you can see places where people who want to enter into no problems, pays the who has to pay and simply puts on dancing. I hope not to be immediately denied in the future releases ... Prices? Difficult to compare with ours, surely the beer is much cheaper (1 euro in the bars off, up to 2 spaces), the super spirits cost about half as much to us, but the quantities are much smaller and with lots of ice, and then virtually have no effect.
do not know if it is better or worse, but I have seen people drunk very little, and so far even though Stewart was drunk, I would say that it seems to work! For example, I've got a whiskey-coke which cost me only 2.50, but I did no effect. Maybe you could try to do here too, I do not know results were ...
Werder Bremen
I close this first installment of Bremen, Bremen talking of course! More than anything, as evidenced by a couple of pictures, I'll tell you that on Sunday, C. and her roommate went to the day of Werder.
What is? In practice, it is a day that is held each year in which there is a workout in the morning and then opened to the public throughout the day players are available for photos / autographs, etc ... Everything is organized around the stadium, with a lot of stand giving food, gifts and gadgets sell merchandising material.
We obviously we missed training because was 9.30 in the morning and it was unthinkable, we also dropped autographs and photos with players not only because they do not deem of vital importance, but because you had to queue mileage ... (tidy, unbelievable for us Italians !!!). But we have turned to the stands, catching a few gadgets here and there.
I must say that it's really a beautiful thing! But when you wake the hell our society doing something similar? There was a lot of people, all of the team with material of all kinds, not just the traditional hats and scarves, but also bags of different models, walking shoes, shirts ... And then all calm and serene, intent to pass a pleasant day and that's it, a lot of children, families ... A different world, really, It's time we wake up also in our country ...
Well, with these reflections, in which there would be a good hated "meditate, people, meditate ... "I'm terrible, I can even say goodbye. I send you greetings from Germany this cold, while you bastard / and enjoy the sun and the heat of the beautiful country ... (the cheese, of course).
A hug!
