This past Saturday morning we left from Modling to Lignano, Italy. What was meant to be a 6 hour drive turned into 8 hours in traffic. Fortunately, the company I was with was great and the drive was filled with beautiful mountain ranges and the greenest grass ever!
We arrived in Lignano around 2pm and began our search for a home for the night. Checked out a few hotels and found the Olympia. It was fairly cheap for the night and included a buffet style breakfast. After we checked in went to the beach and tested the water. It was surprisingly warm. We left our things on dry sand and the wind picked up and destroyed my camera with sand. Hopefully we can fix it...
After the long day in the car we decided to get some ice cream and call it an early night!
We arrived in Lignano around 2pm and began our search for a home for the night. Checked out a few hotels and found the Olympia. It was fairly cheap for the night and included a buffet style breakfast. After we checked in went to the beach and tested the water. It was surprisingly warm. We left our things on dry sand and the wind picked up and destroyed my camera with sand. Hopefully we can fix it...After the long day in the car we decided to get some ice cream and call it an early night!
Our check out time was 10:30am. So we woke up early, ate, showered, went out to the car to find the back axel destroyed by a drunk Italian driver in the night. This man hit two other cars in his rampage through the streets of Lignano. A very kind woman from Italy came back to the scene to give us this man's information, and how to contact the police.
The boys led Ana and I to the beach so we could enjoy our day while they dealt with the inconsistencies and unorganization of the Italian police. I have learned that they have three different "kinds" of police and none of these branches wanted to deal with anything.
Thankfully they spoke German. I had no idea so many people in Italy spoke so much German!
After the boys got things settled (mostly) with the police we had a long trip home to look forward to. There was an hour long bus ride to the train station, just enough time to (literally) run into mc donalds grab some chicken nuggets and run to our train. The train ride back to Vienna was roughly 7 hours. After we arrived back in Austria we had to grab a 10minute taxi ride to the car, then another hour spent in the car. I'm so glad we all got home safe, and that we weren't in the car when the drunken man hit it!
Thankfully they spoke German. I had no idea so many people in Italy spoke so much German!
After the boys got things settled (mostly) with the police we had a long trip home to look forward to. There was an hour long bus ride to the train station, just enough time to (literally) run into mc donalds grab some chicken nuggets and run to our train. The train ride back to Vienna was roughly 7 hours. After we arrived back in Austria we had to grab a 10minute taxi ride to the car, then another hour spent in the car. I'm so glad we all got home safe, and that we weren't in the car when the drunken man hit it!
I hope to visit Italy again. Perhaps, we'll take the train to begin with!
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