Today we went to Bellinzona which is a 30 minute train ride away from Lugano to look at castles! There are three big castles in Bellinzona, one of them is right in the heart of town and two of them are up high on a hill. After walking around for a little, a woman handed me and Shelayne a green vegetable shot and it was the most disgusting thing I have ever been handed.. Never again will I try that! Next weekend we are going to a wine festival there so I know not to try the vegetable shots! For some reason I thought it would be a brilliant idea to wear some sandals and a skirt and then decided I want to hike up to the 2 castles that were legitimately on top of a mountain! Bad idea.. We stopped at the first castle for a little bit and then found out starting in May you had to pay for it so we got kicked out and then walked up to the second! Above is a picture of the first castle we stopped at, and the town down below. Everywhere in Bellinzona had wine vineyards and it was really fun to see even the tiniest yard with thousands of grapes!
This picture is from the top castle with a view of Bellinzona below! Oh and we got gelato! The first gelato I have had since I have been here and it was nutella flavor and amazing.
When we got back we got to relax a little bit and then all the study abroads went to downtown for pizza at a yummy place right by the lake! I am really enjoying all this free food we are receiving! We hung out downtown for a bit and got some drinks and then came back up the hill. We were ready to go to bed and our neighbor came running into our dorm and made us go back into town for blues to bop, a jazz music festival with 3 stages and lots of people in the middle of downtown! It was a lot of fun but on the way back we were walking up the hill and these 4 men were walking by us and one thought it would be hilarious to scream into my ear.. It was creepy and scary and I don't know what their intention was. Pro tip: not a good way to flirt sir!
Tomorrow we have the lake and waterfalls about an hour away and Monday we start this strange thing called school.. Hmm.
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