Asolo

Sunday was quite a long day for us. We woke up and caught a bus from Menaggio to Como, which was fun because it took us through all the towns and we were able to see a bit more of them. From there we hopped on a train to Milan, after almost taking the wrong one, but were finally on our way. In Milan, we had to wait about 30 minutes to see which platform our next train would be assigned to... when we finally found out we made our way in that direction. A huge group of us were huddled close together for what seemed like forever while people got off of our train, and once we were able to we took off down the platform because we had quite a hike to make to get to the 7th car that we were assigned to. We finally got to our car and started to look for our seats, when some Italian jibberish was coming over the speakers and the other few people in our car started to grab the stuff and rush off. What was going on?!!? We grabbed our things and I asked one lady if she could translate for us, she said we had just been assigned to a different train! So we had to rush back down the platform and over to the other one and back down to car 7. We made it in time, but the whole thing caused a 20 minute delay, which made us miss our next train in Mestre (Venice) to Castelfranco, the closest town with a train station to Asolo. We had to take a later train once we got there, and when we finally arrived in Castelfranco we had to wait forever for a cab! At this point we were cutting it way too close to being there in time for orientation. A cab finally arrived, though, and rushed us over to Asolo with 8 minutes to spare!!!

It was such a long day... took us 8 hours total to get from Menaggio to Asolo! But it was so well worth it. It is so beautiful!! Yesterday we went for a hike on the trails back behind our "campus," and today I took my camera with me for an hour or two while Brad was in class and snapped away. These are the pictures from in and around Asolo!

Asolo

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