Davide Cassenti

As usual I missed to add new posts for long time: last one was written more than 3 months ago, just after my visit to Venice for the Carnival. Is not that nothing happened, just my lazyness sometime reaches levels that cannot be imagined.

I probably don’t remember everything, but looking at my photos – yes, I am not lazy to take photos at least – I can see what’s new here: first, my sister had great results in her gymnastic competition; we’ve been in Mortara, a small town not far from Pavia, and she did the third best result. Wonderful.

There has been Easter under the rain and Angel’s Monday, surprisingly sunny and hot, spent at Belgioioso’s castle where a Fantasy show was held. It was more an event for kids and big fans of collectible card games and similar, but even for the very normal people it came out to be very nice and interesting: they prepared some exhibitions inspired to the most famous fantasy stories – such as The Lord Of the Rings – and tens of kids and actors in costumes were playing them.

In April I had few days of vacation in Budapest with my friend: I flew there with WizzAir, which turned out to be a nice flight company, and spent few days in a really great hotel, cheap and in the downtown. The city is really beautiful – and hot. It was really interesting how the people think abuout Italians and english language: one morning, in a bar, the barman asked us something and when I said I was Italian he explained me that usually we just say “one espresso!”; I would probably had too, if I liked coffee. Anyhow, what he asked us was some nail polish remover for his friend – a boy – who had nails painted: we didn’t want to investigate more about it.

The flight back was awful: we had to leave the hotel at 4am took the plane and landed in Bergamo in the early morning. Seems to be fine, if you don’t consider that from that airport is then impossible to go back to Pavia: the first step is to go to Milano; then, for a misterious reason there are no trains during the whole morning and the only solution is to take the metro and go to take a bus somewhere else. Big congratulations to our Ferrovie dello Stato.

Panorama of Budapest

In May I had a really nice weekend with my georgian friend Nana. I invited her because there would have been a Georgian party in Milano – she’s in Italy of course: she was my guest for a couple of days, so we decided to take a visit to some other places too. On Saturday we have been to Sirmione, a wonderful town on the Garda lake and then a quick visit to Verona.

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

We had then to run back home to see the final match of Champions League at my friends’: but we couldn’t resist without drinking something, so we had to stop at McDonald’s McDrive to order a drink. I do not know if “2 big Fanta” is a sort of magic sentence or if they thought we were just hungry, but we asked it and surprisingly found a BigMac, two salads, two cokes, a sweet and chips in the bag they gave us: we’re lovin’ it. In the end of the day, let’s don’t forget the crazyness at home due the victory of Inter in the Champions League.

The next day we’ve been at the Georgian party, organized by the association Con la Georgia nel cuore: very well, with photos, talks, tasty food and shows. We missed some of them because we preferred to take a visit to Milano, but I’ll definetly will attend those parties again when they’ll be repeated.

Now I’m in Bologna, returning the visit to Nana: arrived yesterday, we’re planning a ride to the seaside soon, even though the day is not the best ever. However, we’re brave enough to take a swim; probably.