hello and welcome to another travel vlog from
my semester abroad in italy apologies if the background noise is a
bit loud but i'm currently in boccadasse
which is a little town on the outskirts of genoa
and i'm just about to start walking into genoa because
i honestly just think that there's so much to see in genoa
it's worthy of so much time so yeah even though i've been to genoa like
two or three times already and vlogged on youtube i think that
there's so much more to see i've had an amazing time in boccadase
just taking things really slowly i went to
lidl as you can see i haven't actually been to lidl in italy
yet so it's really cool to like see that just about to
walk to genoa it takes about 50 minutes and yeah
let's go!
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honestly the whole of this past week it's been like really
windy and rainy um and there was like quite a sort of
storm i think that the media blew up quite a lot but like on the Ligurian
coast there were like quite a few heavy winds and like massive waves on
the beach i think that it's actually quite nice that it's sunny again
because i think that there aren't that many days left in the year where it's
going to be like this i know i'm a typical brit talking about
the weather but it's interesting you know i wish i
bought my sunglasses!
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it definitely feels like i'm in genoa now the blocks of flats are getting higher
and there's more and more traffic so i'm definitely in genoa now
but yeah i'm really glad that i did that walk as i say it took about
40 50 minutes and yeah and i could see another side of the city
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i feel like i'm in the middle of the city but in the middle of nowhere at the
same time does anyone else ever get that
so i've made it to the parko di villa croce that i
would come to which it's like on my list of places to go
that's really peaceful here there's like hardly anyone here to be honest no one
with an earshot of me talking and of course i still feel a
bit funny about talking to a camera in public
but i'm definitely getting better at it i'm never going to see any of these
people again so it's chill you know there's meant to be like a museum of
contemporary art here but like with anything at the moment i
don't know if it's actually open because of covert it says on google maps it is
but i don't know i'm gonna try and find out but it looks pretty closed to be
honest we'll see... nah that's definitely closed
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this right here reminds me so much of the barbican in central london
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so i'm currently in Eataly which is like a really
famous high-end supermarket chain in italy
and the one in genoa has like a really cool lift which gives you quite a good
view for free we always like that so i'm
gonna do that i've been here once before with my friend
andy but we didn't vlog it so i'm doing it again but i'm also doing it
because i need to use the loo!
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hello so i just went to the biosfera
which is just behind me it's actually
like something quite unusual like it's quite a small sort of pod but i didn't
realize there were going to be like animals in it
it was really interesting um i think they were like
not parakeets but like pinkish kind of birds i'm not sure but i've
taken footage of them the aquarium is so expensive
it's like 30 euros which i'm not prepared to pay
when i'm still assuming for such a tourist attraction
but yeah i'm probably going to... there are a couple of other places which i want to
visit sorry about the background noise at the
same time i'm not sure if they're open so we'll just have to see that but i
really wanted to visit the biosphere before
i go to florence which is something which i've done now so
yeah another thing ticked off the list!
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okay so even though um google maps says that this
museum is open it's um it's clearly not like all the entrances are blocked off
which is really sad to be fair it only just started saying it
was open like the past few days um because i've been wanting to
go to that museum for a while it's called dialogue or nell boyle
which translates as dialogue in the dark which i think that's quite an
interesting name quite an enticing name but yeah i'll
just have to save that for another time i'll definitely be coming
back to Genoa after my year abroad so yeah i'll save it for that
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right so i now need to do the really boring adult thing
of buying vitamins i'm not actually sure if vitamins work
or if it's just a placebo effect but i certainly do feel better as though
i'm taking care of myself when i do things like take vitamins but
i'm running out of them so i need to buy some more
i'm going to go to this shop called DM which is actually a german
shop it's like i think it's like the german equivalent of
superdrug or something that's the kind of vibe that i get anyway because it's
italy there aren't that many dms there are only just a few in like northern
italy but yeah i really like dm so i'm gonna
get them from there
i love dm it feels like i'm in germany just for that tiny tiny bit of time
that i'm in the shop um i don't know i just
missed germany sometimes you know!
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is this a good position to film from yes i think it is so hello
i am now back home at my appartmento i would say that today has
been quite good honestly i feel like i haven't really done
that many touristy things but i've walked around a lot like
last time i checked i did like 16 000 steps and that was like two hours ago
before i walked for half an hour to genoa station
i hope that you guys feel like you've watched a travel vlog because i know
i've been to genoa loads but honestly like
even today i feel like i've seen a completely different side of genoa as i
think i alluded to earlier so yeah i'm just so
glad that i have the opportunity to explore like
such amazing places honestly despite everything that's going on right
now because i know that the situation back home in the uk
isn't that great i think it's a bit better here
so i'm just it's always at the back of my mind what's going on back home
changed into my jumper because um i know it's quite funny because
even though i am still having an amazing time abroad like i
really feel as though i am really making the most of every day here
i can genuinely say that hand on heart i do sometimes miss my home comforts even
the simple things like um being able to wear a jumper in the
evening like in my first like month and a half here
it was just way too hot to do that but now it's like actually good enough
temperature to do that so i don't know for me that's just
something that i really appreciate after i went to
the biosphere i did still have like a couple of hours before the train which i
wanted to get went but i don't know
i did as you saw i did try to go to the dialogo nel buio
but that didn't really work out because it was closed even though it said on
google maps that it was open i was gonna try and go to the palazzo
reale like the royal palace but from where i was it felt like i
the only way to get there without really sort of going a really long way round
was to go through some really dark alleyways and
they just did not look pleasant like i absolutely love Genoa as i hope that
i've conveyed on this channel the amount of genoa content that i've put out there
but one aspect which i don't really like about genoa like one
of the few aspects is that it's absolutely full of dark
alleyways i don't think i've ever seen a place
before which has so many honestly and i know that's because of the way
that it's been built up like so many people are so close together in
such a relatively small amount of space and i mean i'm sure there are
loads of dark alleyways in places like london but i guess that's
it's not quite in the same way i don't really know how to explain it maybe it's
just because i'm abroad but i just don't feel comfortable about
walking around dark alleyways like there are loads of people
who i mean i'm sure i don't know if what they're doing
and they just sort of hang around there standing watching
people walk past not appearing to do anything and
i don't really like that if they're like all watching you as you walk past if you
know i mean like i don't know i mean maybe they are fine
and i'm just overthinking it but personally as a young
woman i don't feel comfortable with walking through that
i think that any person wouldn't feel comfortable with it honestly like no
matter what gender you are i mean maybe they would but
i'm quite petite as well petite so i don't know i just didn't feel very
comfortable with it long story short i didn't go
to the palazzo reale but next time i do go to genoa whether that
is when i'm still living relatively close
or when i come back in a few years time which i'd really like to do when
everything is hopefully back to normal i would love to go to the palazzo reale
and hopefully approach it from a different angle and it will all be fine
i feel like i'm rambling now i hope that you enjoyed this video
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bye!
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