One last surreal stop
Trip Start
Aug 11, 2003
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Trip End
Sep 01, 2003
Montpellier,
Languedoc-Roussillon,
France
Friday, August 29, 2003
I got the feeling that Montpellier was somehow similiar to my home town in Italy, Pisa, so I felt a bit at home, apart from the fact they all speak french, of corse :) There is a university, so there are many students in the city, a big public garden where you can relax on the grass, and the sea is just 20 minutes of bus away. There is also some nightlife, we ended up in a rock club.
Our staing in Monpellier was a bit surreal. After 20 days of camping, hostel, and cooking our food with stoves, we discovered that we have saved an amount of money we didn't expected to have, so we took a room in a hotel. This room had only a window on an internal courtyard so the temperature in the room, night or day, was always 30°C.
We were also aware that this was our last stop before going back home, so we where living in a sort of "ok, what I'm supposed to do now?" because we have had so much freedom and fun in the last weeks that we felt we couldn't easily get back to our ordinary life. As a result of this, everyone of us was immersed in his thought so we didn't talked so much, we eventually divided during the day (I went around the city alone, then to the sea, while the others where doing the same, or just staing in bed reading books).
We put together all of our money and had one dinner at a restaurant, a really nice medieval-style restourant where the waitress was dressed like a medieval lady. The funny thing was to discover that, after work, the waitress changed to its ordinary clothes, and she was a punk! (immagine the contrast between the fine long dress, circle in her hair, and no makeup, with leather black boots, metallic collar and dark makeup). We ask her what to do at night and she took us to a rock club where we spent our last night.
The day after we took the train to Italy.
