Europe 2007

Day six
My bus arrived in Bergamo bus station and lots of passengers rushed forward pushing me over, the driver saw me, helped me up and shouted a few naughty phrases at these passengers. I was now quite embarrased so I quickly found my seat and we set off, 90 mins later after a very scenic journey I arrived in Boario. On arriving as always it seemed in the middle of know where so I had to ask for directions to my hotel, I vagley understood and soon enough I arrived.

The hotel was located at the bottom of the lower Italien Alps, in a very small town near the local church. The hotel owner checked me in, I found my room and had a siesta. By the time I woke it was time for tea, the hotel was amazing so I had dinner here, a four course meal, but i only managed three. Somehow in the heat I have really lost my appetite.

Day seven
The travel agent arranged for me to go to the Aqua Center today, to the Italiens it seems it was an amazing place but to me it was just the average swimming pool with a view pool kiddies pools and tiny slides. I did have a fun day though, taking the time out to relax. It was a cloudy day and it didnt seem very hot but later I realised the sun was there as I was very red and sore, eithern after my factor 30! I made it back to the hotel just in time before we had a 3 hour heavy rain and thunderstorm session. I had lunch and made friends with a 70 year old Italien man called Salvador! Somehow eithen though we didn't speak the same language we both taught each other new card games, which was funny. I later reaised that this hotel is used as a holiday destination for OAP Italiens, so how great is that, don't think i'll meet anyone here then!

Day Eight
After breakfast I met with the travel agent who arranged for me to do two more trips. Today I went to a place called sport action, i had the choice of hiring a bike, kayak or wind surf for the day, and yes wisly I chose the wind surf, only kidding. I got on my bike and had a fun but very tiring day cyclying round lake iseo. I stopped for lunch in a very pretty town called Lourve, a tiny unspolit town loacted on the lake front. I made it back for about 4pm and we worked out I had cycled about 38 km, wow no wonder I was knackered. The bike ride went well although I almost killed myself following a car into this extremley dark tunnel, shitting my self I imediatly turned back. I had dinner in the hotel again as restaurents in the area were limited to mainly hotels.

Day Nine
I had pre-planned to go in to the mountain today to play in the woods at adventure land. I arrived at adventure land by private transfer at about 10 am. I was met by this gorgeous italien (whoops forgot his name, anyway who cares he was married) He put me in a harness and began to explain all safety information. Adventureland is basically a rope, swings and bridge park that are all built into the trees on different hights and difficulties. We started on level one, easy ey? No way I hated it, wibbly bridges in the air, netting to climb in the air etc etc. I really embarassed my self when I soon discovered I couldn't lift my own body weight. I had to hold on to a bar and swing to the other side with my legs hanging, then somehow pull my legs up and pull myself up onto the new platform. The guy had to get a ladder and push me up, I must of been so red with emabassement! I decided to give level 1 one more try and decided it definatly wasn't my thing. I was also with this sweet 12 yr old lad and of course he completed all the levels just to make me look eithern more stupid!
In the afternoon I went for a walk to find the train station and found a few shops but didn't buy anything exciting.

Day ten
It was an early start as I decided to get the bus at 8.00 am to Brescia, which from the outskirts looks really nice but I didn't stay here. I missed my train conection to Verona so I had a long three hour wait on the platform for the next one.
TBC