First Weekend in Genoa
So, it’s officially one week in Genoa and we’re still alive! Amazing! Things are going ok. We’re getting used to being here and the way things work here.
It’s Monday night. We had a part lazy, part tiring weekend. We spent most of Saturday walking around Genoa’s old city. It never fails to amaze me how the all ancient buildings here don’t get a second glance from the locals, but to us they’re so fascinating. To us in SA, an old building was probably built in the 1800’s? Here they go back to the 1200’s! The old city is filled with teeny tiny alleys and everything is really cramped and squashed into what little space there is. The Genovese say that they’ve always been this way since their city has the sea on one side and the mountains on the other. Even the Siemens office is cramped actually – Prean and I are sharing a desk because there are no spare desks in the office…
It’s Monday night. We had a part lazy, part tiring weekend. We spent most of Saturday walking around Genoa’s old city. It never fails to amaze me how the all ancient buildings here don’t get a second glance from the locals, but to us they’re so fascinating. To us in SA, an old building was probably built in the 1800’s? Here they go back to the 1200’s! The old city is filled with teeny tiny alleys and everything is really cramped and squashed into what little space there is. The Genovese say that they’ve always been this way since their city has the sea on one side and the mountains on the other. Even the Siemens office is cramped actually – Prean and I are sharing a desk because there are no spare desks in the office…
Both the pictures are from the old city – one of a street next to a church and the other of the Piazza de Ferrari.
So many things are different from home, we take the buses very easily to get around and walk around at night with no worries. Our apartment is on the other side of a train and bus station (probably a no go area anywhere in SA). This is the tunnel that we walk through twice a day to get to and from our apartment.
On Sunday we went to Porto Antico – the Genoa (Genova in Italian) Port. It’s quite a busy one, and especially this weekend with a major boat show happening. We didn’t really find the actual show – but we did stumble across a massively huge ocean liner and some yachts that really made us jealous!
After the port, we walked back via Piazza de Ferrari and we stumbled upon a parade. We have no idea what it was about but we guess that it was something like displaying Genoa’s heritage from many different cultures. We could make out medieval looking people, some South American, some middle eastern – we could be wrong – but check it out…
Then the last bit of news is that we decided to try to cook mince curry… It was hard – I have to admit. No ginger & garlic…or much spices but we did find chillies – so that was a start. Then we hunted in all the supermarkets for some kind of spices and we found garlic and some spices…
So that’s our curry powder… lol. Notice the blandness of the actual curry powder…
Anyway – Prean said the mince curry was nice – don’t know if that’s the “havn’t eaten curry in so long” talking but I think it was ok – especially with what we had to work with…
Missing you guys. Someone please start a blog so we can know what’s happening?
We’re thinking of going to Florence next weekend – or the weekend after that.
Till next time
So that’s our curry powder… lol. Notice the blandness of the actual curry powder…Anyway – Prean said the mince curry was nice – don’t know if that’s the “havn’t eaten curry in so long” talking but I think it was ok – especially with what we had to work with…
Missing you guys. Someone please start a blog so we can know what’s happening?
We’re thinking of going to Florence next weekend – or the weekend after that.
Till next time
