Day 100!
We've been at this for 100 days!!! Only 40 days left!!! We'll be home before you know it. We occasionally talk about the things we miss & what we'll eat when we get back...
Here's a little creativity from Kyra:
hi hello how ya doin I think that I am doin fine, so, i feel like makin an acrostic poem about Panda Express:
Perfectly delicious
A-list restaraunt
None in europe!
Did I mention that theres none in Europe?
Awesomeley appetizing
Easily the best food ever
X-actly what I want right now
Painful not to have
Rice, fried rice, teriyaki, orange chicken, chow mein
Eventually going to go crazy without it
Seriously craving
Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooo good
Padova (Padua)
We had a great day in one of the oldest university towns in Europe. Padua University was founded in 1222
AD as a law school making it the 2nd oldest in Europe, after Bologna. The next to follow were Paris, then Cambridge & Oxford in England. We parked by the plaza where there was a big fair setting up but we had to speed-walk to make it to the 11:30 tour, the last of the day. We were the last to buy tickets & didn't have to wait for the tour to start. Good timing. Our guide spoke fairly good English although she was switching back & forth from Italian which made it a little more difficult to follow her commentary.
We learned about the great students & teachers of the 16th & 17th centuries such as Copernicus (heliocentric theory), Galileo (telescopic discoveries) & William Harvey (blood circulation) & their great contributions to the scientific revolution. We visited the general lecture hall which is still used today & only open for certain tours when not being used. No pictures allowed inside any of the rooms but I got a few bootleg pics. The medical school was started later & the famous anatomy theatre was added in 1595, the oldest surviving of its kind.
We spent the next couple of hours at the central plaza visiting the booths of the traveling fair & relaxing on the grass in the sun. The kids got to run around & played some tag. It was a beautiful day & very much worth the trip. Maybe the lack of tourist masses replaced by fair-going locals was a pleasant change. When we got back to our house in Lonigo, our host Gabriele showed up & we visited for about an hour as he told us about his recent trip to the arctic circle, gave us traveling tips & ordered dinner for us from his favorite pizza place...
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| outer entrance to the old university (my guess is this was added later) |
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| gates into the old university |
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| our guide practicing lingual schizophrenia |
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| sunshine in the old university |
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| this dude needs a haircut! |
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| bootleg pic of the general lecture hall ceiling |
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| Kyra & Cannon wishing they lived 500 years ago! |
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| mid-tour on the courtyard balcony |
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| about to enter the medical lecture hall & anatomy theatre |
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| the street outside the old university |
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| some old street with cute red lanterns |
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| some cute young girl enjoying a pastry |
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| time for some goodies at the fair |
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| freshly made pasta ready for lunch (not our lunch) |
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| why not start with American dessert? |
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| a plate of yummy sausage & potatoes from Spain for Sydney |
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| a true Idahoan loving the potatoes! |
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| Padua's central plaza has a neat statue-lined river |
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| we skipped the church tours for time at the fair |
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| Cannon with roasted pigs feeling the heat |
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| sitting on the grass just soaking up sun & finishing lunch |
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| not sure who these guys are, the names are hard to read |
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| playing tag on the grass |
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| goodbye Padua & the fair! |
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| back at "3 Lasagne" for pizza! |
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| Kyra ready for bed |
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| the huge pizza box |
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| a variety of choices all ordered by our host Gabriele |
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| 300-year-old yokes make top notch décor |
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| we'll miss this cool place! |
Okay, so have you eaten any of those desserts from your going away party in their actual country of origin? Or were we way off?
ReplyDeleteYes, we did have Pavlova in New Zealand!
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