Beach Trip

The weekend was pretty uneventful. The three of us basically explored the city more Saturday and Sunday finding places to eat and shop. We had off Monday because it was a holiday, so we decided to take a day trip to Rimini with Roberto (a Brazilian student who was living at the same house as Maddie), his sister Lorena, and Megumi (a Japanese girl who is also living at Maddie's house). Rimini was only about an hour and 45 minutes away on the train and was a beautiful coastal city on the Adriatic side of Italy. The beach was beautiful. The sand was very fine and it took a good 5 minutes to walk from where the beach began to get to the water (yes...the beach was that big). The water was nice and warm and the coolest part was that you could walk 150-200 yards out into the water before it got too deep to stand. Much different than the beaches I've visited in the States. The coolest part of Rimini was the marina that was located right on the other side of the beach from where we were sitting. I spent the majority of the afternoon just walking around checking out all of the sailboats. Unfortunately I did not take any pictures of the beach...sorry. We caught the train back in the early evening and had dinner at Maddie's house with her host mother and the other students. The next day, Roberto and Lorena left to go home to Brazil. They were both so nice, and Roberto, in particular, was very knowledgable since he has been living in Bologna for about 6 months. As I said, it was a pretty uneventful weekend, but we still have the rest of the weekend ahead of us. Ciao!