Italy? Why not!

Saturday, February 5th, 2011 at 23:50 | categories: Food, Travel

After a night of moderate drinking at the local Irish pub, we decided to head out to Italy on an hours notice today afternoon with a couple of people. The town of choice was Ventimiglia, or Ventimille as the French say, which is the closest Italian town from Antibes by train. You can get there in 1,5h and it will set you back less than 15€ if you’re under 26 years old–or 0€ if you’re willing to hang out in the toilet, as one of us did. I’m not pointing any fingers but it was the American dude.

Ventimiglia is a town divided by a river, the old parts are mainly on one side, the new on the other. The interesting thing about the medieval parts of town is that they’re actually inhabited by the local people rather than utilized for tourist use with expensive restaurants and shops. You can see the laundry being dried outside the windows and people peeking out the windows.

We mostly just wandered around the city without any agenda trying to find the best spots for pictures and views. After dark we found a decent looking restaurant and decided to go there, but they didn’t let us in before 7pm, so we had to wait for 20 minutes outside. That’s how they do it here in the south. The wait was creative, though, and I got a couple of cool pics.