Vacation

Foreward:

Eric planned this vacation before I came over in April, we went with two families from Romania, really we joined them on the first week of their vacation but had our own place to stay.

June 22.

Got up at 3am to be on the road at 4 am. We had to meet up with the Romanians at 10ish in Pandorf Austria. There is a large outlet mall there and everyone thought that it made a good meeting point. We arrived early and took the time to look around, get a snack and some money from an ATM Machine. After we met up and introductions were made, everyone piled back into our cars for the long drive to Italy. We were stay that night in a town called Ferrara at a Bed and Breakfast. It took us about 10 hours to get there on top of the 5 hours it took us to meet up, needless to say it was a long day!! Some of the most interesting parts of the drive that day was passing through the Eastern Italian Alps. I say passed through because we mainly went under them in a long chain of tunnels. I would say there had to have been more than 12 tunnels that we went though that day. The mountains were very beautiful and the landscape was impressive. Once we reached Italy the landscape turn into mainly farmland with massive fields of Corn. An interesting thing about Italian Highways (freeways) is that most of them are toll roads. The roads aren't to expensive but it is a pain to have to stop and get the ticket and then stop and pay it when you get off the road. When we reach Ferrara and followed the directions that the GPS gave us we all realized we were lost. So Alina ( one of the Romanias) got on the phone and called the B&B. Turns out we were just a road over, easy to fix. Upon arriving at the B&B I was a bit taken back as the place looked really seedy from the outside but the inside was great. The rooms were good sized and had their own bathrooms.