Adventure Aperitivo Trip on Women's Day

8th March

Today, we went out to Naviglie to check out the Aperitivo or Cocktail hour buffet there. Just by getting ourselves a drink, we could eat free flow of food in the pub buffet table!

(Note the transportation) We took a bus to Bovisa, changed to train to go Cadorna, then metro to Porta Genova station and on our way there, we saw many women carrying these yellow flowers. And we were like ‘hmm…??’ , dunno what was the occasion. So we quickly grab the tabloid papers that ppl were always distributing and realised that today is 三八妇女节!

Yep. And so meihua bought a bouquet of those tiny buds of yellow flowers to celebrate also. Cost us 1euro. Happy Women’s Day to all women out there. Haha.

After that, we carried on our aperitivo search. this is the neighbour around the Blue Canal Pub where we eventually settled down and ordered our drinks.

The place is great. I got myself a Margarita strawberry; Gan got some mint thing; Meihua Tequila sour, Yian some B******************** -dunno-wad. Good food + live band = linger till quite late. it was really enjoyable sitting there chatting. thk my drink was a bit strong and after 3/4 glass i was quite 'loosen up' already. haha. but still sober la... We found ourselves leaving at 10+pm and almost wanted to stay a while longer cuz at the door, we saw a newly put up sign that says ‘streape tease 2300’(??!)

But ah well, we didn’t. We tried to head back home. And…(ta-dah!) our adventure began!!

first, we missed the Cadorna stop and alighted at Lanza instead. We had to cross over and take the opposite side back to Cadorna. When we got back to Cadorna to changed back to train, we realized that train service had stopped! HAHA. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Haha! So funny. SHIT. No choice liao. Needa find straight bus home. At the place we live, there is only bus82 and there are two types of bus 82. one that stops only at Bovisaca and another that really goes all the way to where we stay (Novate Milanese)We asked the policeman at the train station where we could find a bus82(novate Milanese) bus stop. He gave us some directions but ho-ho. We overshot the bus stop and walked very far. When we came back to the bus stop, we realized: oops, wrong bus’ bus stop. So we decided to take the metro to another metro station that has our bus’ bus stop. At first we wanted to go centrale because that is the terminal of the bus. But cuz we consulted the man in the metro control station, he told us we can go Maciachini. So we went all the way to Maciachini station and found the bus stop. BUT! Erm… The bus home stopped service at 8pm. Great! We had no choice but to take bus82(bovisaca) that doesn’t go home but somewhere near...

still, we weren’t sure of where to stop and also decided to try changing to bus41 to get somewhere nearer home. It was really ridiculous because after we changed bus, we realized that we were actually going about a loop and ended up alighting at a stop we passed by on the first bus. Haiyo. It was really cold at night: 13 degrees Celsius. I was only in a t-shirt and white sweater. Frreezing man.

Gan and Meihua checked out the map at the bus stop. The scene was quite comical cuz the map only showed the vicinity of the bus stop and the map was really high up. The two of them like hopped on and stood on the seats before they could see the map. It was really dark and Gan used her handphone to light up the map. We realized that home was out of the range of the map and we don’t really know how to go home! Nonetheless, they copied the map on the tabloid papers we got earlier and we tried to walk home.

although we meet with the unexpected, it’s really weird how things work out at the end if we just stay calm and positive. somehow, either there's something called luck, or there's God cuz luckily before today, we knew there were two types of 82. If not we would have died when the bus looped back and we don’t know what happened. Then it was also lucky that we took the tabloid papers just now because if we didn’t we have no paper to copy down the map! And tonight, the sky was clear and we could see stars. For me, this is the first night that stars could be seen. Nice! The other days when I did look at the night sky, I could only see the usual bright satellite. Even though we didn’t have a complete map home, we manage to find our way by cooperation and combination our knowledge of what we saw on our bus route. We identified the landmarks and eventually found our way :) It was quite fun! (If you minus the cold wind and the fact that Yian is wearing heels…) The company was great and everyone was very positive. We were still laughing when we finally got home, safe and sound and happy. Haha. What an adventure. (And something to blog about. Yeyy…! But I don’t think I want to try that again. haha! ;~)

(home after 37minutes of walk and 2 hours of being lost.)