Italia

Today was pretty exciting.  Our teacher gave us two options of things we could do.  We could either go to a beach they have just east of Nice with imported sand, or we could go to a town called Vintemille (Vintimigelia in Italian) just across the boarder in Italy.  Surprisingly half of the group choose to go to the beach, but other other half wanted to go to Italy, so we split off into two groups.
I went to Italy, and it was really exciting.  The part we were in really wasn't too different from Southern France, but it seemed a little trashier than Nice.  The first thing I noticed too was that the people in the crowds don't act like your even there.  They'll cut you off of cut into your way without even thinking about it.  It was really annoying.
Since it was a boarder town everywhere people spoke Italian and French.  It kind of reminded me of places back home where they speak Spanglish.  I would catch snatches of French and snatches of Italian everywhere I went.
We went to a pizza place because it's kind of a must when you go to Italy.  I really liked the pizza.  The sauce was creamier than the pizza back home, and it wasn't nearly as greasy.
After the Pizza we went to the flee market there.  It was really big.  Devin and I walked through the whole thing, and then it was time to go.  I was kind of disappointed, because I could've spent a few more hours there.  I was looking for shoes that might be cheap, but I couldn't find any.  I ended up just buying some socks so I had something from Italy.  I needed some more ankle socks anyway.
When we went to go home the train broke down while it was still in the station.  We got on a different train; it slowed us down a little bit.  Nothing major, but worth mentioning.  I'm reminded of Harry Potter whenever I ride to train.  The trains here are just as rickety as they are on TV.

This is a very very narrow staircase going down into the kitchen of the Pizza restaurant.  Everything here is so compact that they have to have things like this.  Every store here is about the size of a haircut place back home.

 My Italian Pizza with Salami

A picture of Vintemille