Today, we went to Trieste (or Trst), Italy for the day. It was jolly good fun!
We left at 9am, and took the bus. It's about an hours drive, but you can see Piran from Trieste and visa versa. The best news of the day? It was sunny! We could see! Yesterday at lunch, the ceiling was painted like sky, and we joked it was our first blue sky of the trip! But today, it was actually sunny. Still cold, but sunny.
We went to language building of the University of Trieste for a couple lectures by Slovene professors on Trieste's history and then on Slovenes in Italy and Italian-Slovene relations. After, we ate in the University's cafeteria. It really made me appreciate St. Olaf's caf! There was one line, and you could get lasagna, penne, torellini and 4 or 5 different sauces and either an apple strudel or cold steamed vegetables.
Yum... <.< >.>
Anyway, then we went to another lecture room and a professor of politics explained to us about the Italian perspective of our morning lectures. He is a friendly, generous Italian man, and all that goes with that. He took us on a tour of Trieste and ate dinner with us after.
We went to a castle built in the 19th century by Maximillian of the Austro-Hungarian empire (the second son who went on to become emperor of Mexico), the main square in Trieste (where Stefano, the politics prof, arranged for us to go on a tour of the swankiest hotel in Trieste), then an amphitheater from the Roman times that is still in use, then a cathedral and old castle from the early Austro-Hungarian rule.
Then we went out for pizza, real Italian pizza. It was pretty good. They could not put pineapples on pizza, though. After, we were treated to a shot of this sweet yet incredibally strong lemon liquor. It was described by someone as ˝Mikes Hard Lemonade on crack.˝ I'll have to find more of it somewhere, because unlike most strong alcohol which tastes like nothing then tastes bad, this tastes bad then tastes great! I like that better! Just a few minutes after drinking the one shot and my fingers were tingling.
Anyway, fun day all around. Tomorrow we stay in Piran, but then we get a free weekend in Venice!
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