20 October 2013, 15:43
Day 5
I slept much better, or at least I think I did. I still woke up at 4 something when I heard my friend got up for the Moto GP. I continue to lay around, closing my eyes hoping to get sleep of an hour or two.
Eventually got up at 8.30am, getting ready with packing to leave Vincenzo's place later on and head straight to Milan with 15:04pm train. I went upstairs to check on my friend and decided i would go out and have one more short stroll along the nearby canal before I go off and make today my official last day here. I bid goodbye to Giacomo early since he won't be around when I come back due to some school business he needs to attend to: to pick up representative from some other school for an exchange programme.
These few days living with vicenzo and giocomo realizing that life is never a complicated matter, you make a choice, stick at one place, do the thing you like and really that is that, nothing complicated. Unlike my friend, always have a rather negative outlook in things, indecisive, always try to be correct and want to have the last words, but even if you win it all, even if you did, what will it get you, right? but i cant say really i am no part of his personally life. who am i to judge anyway? Anyway I really want my friend to be happy in life, I really wish that for him.
Then we confirm on a time where I shall return quarter to one to prepare and have lunch before we head out to the station. According to giocomo weather will turn bad in Venice and I'm kind of glad today is my last day here. My stroll kind of confirm it coz I can see the fog and she I breathe white smoke came out, best yet there was really really fine rain drizzling down. I found a cafe and order un caffe so I can use the wifi connection, I replied a few whatsapp messages and check mails without realizing that today is actually a Sunday. I am officially a freaking workaholic. I should stop. I swear.
I stay at the cafe for about 45minutes and then thought maybe I can find giocomo at the Arsenale to say another goodbye since he said he will head out soon when I was about to leave. I waited for a while and didn't see him come, I guess he got out much earlier, so I left him a note in the panda ice cream container that I got from dinner the other night, as a little souvenir.
I walked home and my friend unlock the door for me, sometimes his reasoning in things was really unreasonable, but at times I just feel sick of tired to argue, so I stop, which always remind me how giocomo will roll his eyes in a way I agree. Ha!
Lunch was ready around 1pm, vicenzo again cook a fantastic meal, very delicious italian pasta dumpling with veggie n beef, he is a very very good cook. After lunch I wanted to help out with the dishes but vicenzo insists that I don't need to hence I'll just got up get myself standby to go. Vicenzo was kind enough to send us off go the station. I still remember giocomo was telling me about picking people up at the airport, it is a very nice gesture especially when your friend or whoever arrive to a brand new place, first thing they do is looking for a familiar faces from the crowd, like in Canada and like in France. Here my friend taught me how to get to the port on my own instead I don't actually mind, but picking up someone from the airport is really a nice gesture and just to show them that you care, I guess.
Finally after a few stop from the boat ride we arrived at the train station after we check the timing for confirmation and vicenzo gets his yet another dose off black coffee, we went on our ways because he has some other things to do. We kiss and hug goodbye, I thank him for everything in Venice, to me it's a really big deal. A presto Vicenzo! I really hope to see you soon!
20 oct 2013. 3 hour train ride to Milan
15:04 - 18:38
We arrived at Milan 1 hour later than expected because the train broke down half way. Luckily I have my friend with me thru out the journey and made everything bearable. He read the book I brought along- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, he said he likes the concept and find it very interesting. After we arrived at the station, we sorted our way to Hotel Dateo where it located near the Rome city center, with walking distance to everything. The hotel room is small but nice and neat, good enough for sleeping, since we don't expect to spend much time in the room anyway.
After we settled down, we head out for dinner where my friend showed me around where he used to live, where his brother lives, which street is nice and where. He was also telling me he lives in Milan for 13years way back when he was still young and finding his first job here. We were supposed to have pizza in a nice little joint, but it was so full, we don't want to wait, so we had dinner somewhere else. I didn't manage to meet up with my friend's brother which I wasn't except to anyway, however we set to have dinner tomorrow night.
Tonight dinner was really great because I get to taste a really good typical italian pizza unlike the one we find in Malaysia. The one I had was classic, it was really moist and juicy. Of course how can we have dinner without beer, so after we finished up our pizza and beer, we took advantage of the wifi and sit in the restaurant for a while more.
We walked back to the hotel after dinner and called it a night, because we are tiring travel the whole day, although my original plan was to take an earlier train so we can arrive Milan earlier and have half a day there, since that plan wasn't going to happen, we stick to what it is and make full use of the next day.
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