Back from vacation!
Aug. 10th, 2011 03:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clonechildAnd work starts immediately, of course.
Went with my friends from high school, which has become something of a tradition ever since we all went together on our post-exams vacation. I had to miss the last two years but luckily this year I could join them again.
We spent the first week just hanging out in a house in Germany, playing games, watching movies and roasting marshmallows in the garden despite the rainy weather. Then we traveled on to make an overnight stop in Zürich (which is a ridiculously expensive city) and from there on to Torino, where the weather was much better with the sole exception of the thunderstorm the night we arrived.
We stayed in Torino for three days, thankful that at least two of us could speak Italian (one of them speaks at least a bit of nearly every European language really) and went shopping and sightseeing and enjoying the Italian Kitchen For Tourists.
From there on we took the train to Marseille which is a really rather gorgeous city (also, the view from where the Notre Dame de la Garde is situated is gorgeous but the church itself isn't all that) and the weather was correspondingly lovely. Which really only made it that much more of a shame that I caught a cold and another friend came down with a fever. Accompanied by a third member with a lot of really painful blisters the three of us moped around the hostel room while the rest discovered Montpellier (all hail the Interrail Passes!).
The train ride home was almost annoyingly long (us spoiled Dutch students aren't used to eleven hour train rides since everything at home is just so close by) and of course the weather took a turn for the worse. Marseille had been lovely - warm but with a refreshing breeze - but when we stepped out of the train in Lille it immediately started raining cats and dogs, in the same way it will always start raining when you're only a few minutes away from home which did actually happen to me later that day.
But whatever, I went on vacation with my high school friends and even if we did get mistaken a couple of times for actual high school students it was still really awesome.
Went with my friends from high school, which has become something of a tradition ever since we all went together on our post-exams vacation. I had to miss the last two years but luckily this year I could join them again.
We spent the first week just hanging out in a house in Germany, playing games, watching movies and roasting marshmallows in the garden despite the rainy weather. Then we traveled on to make an overnight stop in Zürich (which is a ridiculously expensive city) and from there on to Torino, where the weather was much better with the sole exception of the thunderstorm the night we arrived.
We stayed in Torino for three days, thankful that at least two of us could speak Italian (one of them speaks at least a bit of nearly every European language really) and went shopping and sightseeing and enjoying the Italian Kitchen For Tourists.
From there on we took the train to Marseille which is a really rather gorgeous city (also, the view from where the Notre Dame de la Garde is situated is gorgeous but the church itself isn't all that) and the weather was correspondingly lovely. Which really only made it that much more of a shame that I caught a cold and another friend came down with a fever. Accompanied by a third member with a lot of really painful blisters the three of us moped around the hostel room while the rest discovered Montpellier (all hail the Interrail Passes!).
The train ride home was almost annoyingly long (us spoiled Dutch students aren't used to eleven hour train rides since everything at home is just so close by) and of course the weather took a turn for the worse. Marseille had been lovely - warm but with a refreshing breeze - but when we stepped out of the train in Lille it immediately started raining cats and dogs, in the same way it will always start raining when you're only a few minutes away from home which did actually happen to me later that day.
But whatever, I went on vacation with my high school friends and even if we did get mistaken a couple of times for actual high school students it was still really awesome.