Genoa

Our next stop was Genoa! We heard it was very beautiful from a few people, so we figured why not?

We got to the train station and read the directions to get to our hostel, we started off and did retry good finding the streets we needed and then we got into a bit of trouble, we came to a roundabout and tired to find the street off it that we needed but couldn't find it anywhere! The streets in this place out a whole new meaning to cmfussing and tiny. Finally after walking around for a while we asked someone on the street, she didn't speak English but was very friendly and we ended up being able to understand where to go. After that we had no problems actually finding the hostel. It is yet another hostel that you need to buzz into and looks like an apartment building however this one actually has a sign outside!

We didn't get into the hostel until around 7 so we decided just to go out for a bit to eat and head back, we found this little resturant off the main streets and figured we would give it a try, since we didn't know anything about a good place to eat or where anything was. We both ended up accidently ordering the main dish that genoa is famous for, which is pesto pasta...so, so good! Once we got back to the hotel everyone was sitting around drinking wine, so we figured we would partake in the festivities. There actually ended up being two other Canadians here at this hostel but one...holy crap I wanted to smack him. Before he started talking I seen him and thought humm he's kind if hot...then he opened his mouth and it went downhill from there. He was what I like to call mr. I love me. Meaning loves to hear himself talk and thinks he knows everything about everything. It was so funny everyone was getting so annoyed with him and he didn't even notice. It's like take your head out of your ass buddy! He also tried to argue with Kristy about animal nutrition, hahaha that was hilarious to say the least.

Our first day of adventures was yesterday...we didn't really know or have anything in mind to do so we just wondered. We walked down to the pier which is very famous, it's a very old port which is cool. We got to see tons and tons of rediclously huge yhatz, it actually kind of reminded me of Monaco a little. While we were waking around we could see a huge lighthouse off in the distance so we figured we would try and walk there....yeah that didn't work out to well, we couldn't quite figure it out. But no loss because apperently the part of town it's in is very industrial and dirty so I guess we didn't miss much. After this attempt we got out the map and tired to figure out what else we should do. While we were sitting there these two guys walked up and asked us if we were lost, they were from the states but live in genoa. They gave us some tips of what to see while we were there and we took their advice. We walked around for a while seeing the sights, I swear the streets here are crazy small! Most of them don't even look like streets, most are just for walking but there still super tiny. On our travels we found this very ordinarily, small looking church but it was open so following our rule if its open we go on, so we walked in and it was one if the most impressive churches we have seen so far, def top five! There is no way you would have known it was that big or beautiful by just looking at the outside. We found a few more churches and checked them out, we found one that is a copy of the one the one we seen in Florence called the duomo. After this we decided to head back to the hostel because we were wondering most of the day, we ended up finding the red light district in our area and we def walked through it, we had to just to see what it was like. The prostitues we seen were men dressed as women, we didn't venture to far into the red light district so we didn't see much else.

Today we it rained so we headed to the aquarium, which is one of the largest in the world. It was pretty neat but they didn't have my favoriate fish...which is the cow fish, google it, it's so cute! They also didn't have any blow fish which is another one if my favs but oh we'll it was still cool. We gotto watch the dolphins play and stuff with the trainers which was pretty neat. It wasn't a show they were just feeding them but they made them do tricks and stuff. The tank they were in was cool because you could be at the bottom and see them swimming and you could see them from above but you could also still see them under the water too!