December 19, 2009

  • Snowy Piacenza

     


    Continuing the 'excursions on Saturday' tradition, today I went to Piacenza. Never mind that it was freeeeeeeezing and that I had to trudge through snow all day in the freeeeeeezing cold! Haha.

    I wanted to see the city, and the forecast for the daytime was sunny, so I figured it would be okay. I kind of forgot about the fact that the snow from overnight wouldn't disappear instantly. In places, where they hadn't tried to clear it, it was actually pretty deep (I was up almost to my knees in it at one point). Where they had cleared the roads it had become that yukky slushy mud coloured stuff. But the rest of it looked really pretty, and I think it's the first time I have ever done city sightseeing with that much snow! I enjoyed all the statues being covered/dressed in snow. I might have to go back another day when it's NOT quite so cold as I did end up cutting the day short and went home mid afternoon. I was glad I did as the trains were chaos. Luckily mine was only 15 minutes delayed, but the longest delay was 330 minutes!! There wasn't a single train on time (unsurprisingly).

    Got back to Brescia and the snow had pretty much all gone there (there was still a bit on rooftops). The snow in Piacenza really put the piddling amount in Brescia to shame!