Allora, we arrived to Verona at 8 pm. We didn't have accommodation again, but at least we had arranged a city tour with a local guy Simone. He came by car, so we could leave our bags there while exploring the city. We drove up to a hill and found a beautiful view of the whole city. This city tour was the most informative we ever had. Simone and his friend are architects, so they knew everything about every building. We learned a lot about the history of Verona. And most importantly, we called for Romeo in front of his house. By 11 pm, Ruta received a phone call from a guy who could host us. Yaay, no sleeping outside! He picked us up and brought to his amazing house in the countryside, in Vallese. We stayed up until 4 am, enjoying a bottle of very good Soave and chatting about life. Day 10 The plan was to go to Lake Garda this day. Luckily we made a 2-3 hour city tour of Verona the previous evening, so we didn't need to waste more time on that. But before leaving we had to stop in Julia's house to grab her boob for good luck. To have good luck in love you need to call for Romeo under his balcony, touch Julia's boob and throw a flat stone into Lake Garda so that it bounces at least twice. After this, we took a bus to Sirmione to visit Lake Garda. We had a small walk in the city. Very short walk, because it was so hot that we couldn't wait to get into the lake. The region there is beautiful. Unfortunately it was very foggy and we didn't have a clear view of the surrounding areas, not even the mountains. We can imagine that on a clear day that place looks out of this world. The next challenge was to reach Padova, where we had a sleeping place at Ruta's friend's house. We had a train from Pescheria di Garda at 18.53. It was 18.15 when we started to look for a ride and the place was a 20 minute drive from us. We were in a hurry again. After some time hitchhiking a cute girl picked us up. She was on the way home which was near, but was kind enough to take us to our destination. We arrived 18.54 to the station and luckily the train was a few minutes late, so we made it. We arrived to Padova at 9 pm, and Marco was there to pick us up. At home he cooked us burgers and we could finally wash our clothes in the washing machine. ,Day 11 We were not sleeping inside Padova, but near. So we never saw the city because we hitchhiked from the house straight to the beach of Sottomarina. We were very quickly picked up by an italian mom with her lovely daughter. They took us to the beach and offered us a Spritz. Very generous people. The beach Bagni Oasi Sottomaria was not the prettiest beach we have seen. But it was okei for a quick swim until we found a piece of poo swimming around. We changed the wet clothes, put the backbags on our shoulders and walked around 4 km to Chioggia, which is known as small Venezia. It was a quiet and small town, with nothing much to see. The ports looked good and we had a delicious panini in a local caffeteria. The prices are very cheap compared to other cities we have visited. There was one nice place we liked in the city. A canal, not like in Venice of course, but looked cute. At 5 pm we started to hitchhike to reach Forlí. The first car took us to the autostrada that takes to Ravenna, which is on the way to Forlí. After 20 minutes another car picked us up. They were guys from Marocco who were selling belts on the beach of Sottomarina. Unfortunately they only took us 10 km further, because they had to go home to eat couscous??? For the next half an hour we were stuck in the middle of nowhere when finally one car stopped to take gas. They picked us up, but it came out that they were on the way to Firenze, so they left us in the next gas station. We were in a town called Rosolina and our plan to reach Forlí that day didn't seem to work out. Luckily in that city there was a trainstation so we caught the last train to Bologna. Fernando was super kind to take us into their house again. It was Sunday, but since we had not been out for socialising for already two nights, we decided to go out and enjoy the nightlife of Bologna. Day 12 - the last day of the trip Finally we managed to wake up early in the morning at 8, it was the first time for us. We wanted to go to Rimini and later San Marino by hitchhiking. To get out of the center it took us one hour by bus, but we were still in Bologna. We found a superstrada, but that seemed very dangerous, so we walked more to find a better place. This didn't work out for us. We tried to find a road that is out of the city, but after getting out of Bologna another city started. So there was no way to hitchhike. We decided to take a train from there. It was a very sad situation because we were already used to our luck (except the previous day). Maybe it was karma, but no regrets. We arrived to Rimini at 3 pm. So it took us 5 hours to get there, normal time by train is maximum an hour and a half. The weather was super hot, so we went to the beach. We had a swim and laid down for 10 mins, when we were told that not every part of the beach was for free. So we needed to change place. Honestly we were again totally disappointed because the smell was terrible and everything was very expensive on the beach. San Marino which is small country in Italy was the next stop from there. We were afraid that we won't have enough time to visit the city because we had one and a half hour. But it came out that the time was perfect for walking through the whole city. We enjoyed beautiful views from the hilltop and the beauty of the cute centre. It was very calm, because it was already 7 pm. There were just a few tourists and even the shops were closed. In the late evening we returned to Bologna and rested well for today. We are on a train to Orte from where we will go to mid-term training for our EVS project.
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