Bari, South of Italy- A City to Remember
There were clusters of small villages on the hilltops, isolated houses with windows shuttered had been a wonderful landscapes along the way to Bari. Long journey is always shutted me away from reality then has encouraged me to bring along with me , a novel to finish, which accelerating my mental process for the day. Almost 9 hours sitting on a bus, it was not easy to keep the blood flowing to the whole body without any physical movement. Somehow, it has always been a great moment enjoying sightseeing countrysides and off course, there is no excuses to skip the opportuntity to absord these experiences of a long journey.
I read the names of the towns as the bus passed - Napoli, Roma etc and in my mind, each promises the secret of cobbled streets and history buried in pale stone walls of each town. Spoken with a chat-friend of mine, Italy is obviously different with other european countries in terms of its history. Each villages of Italy established its own history and hidden thousands memories of ruins or standstill buildings.
The journey started from Nuovo Pignone office which was around 8.30am and we reached Bari almost 6.30pm. I can see that every face shown a tireness and dreaming a bed. Lucia had arranged a special dinner for us, which was i think more to like feeding goats with grass. For me, i don't do eating vegetables with nothing and it was obviously no ones refused to put a side as a protes. Positively, enjoyed with classmates was more than just a dinner.
On next day, as per sechedule we had visited Nuovo Pignone Workshop ( Pump and Control Valve), and as usual we finished the tour and class around 5pm. And then the day was started. I believe that everybody seemed happy with the early finish of class and the city tour was a next program after the visit to NP.
The night before, i spent more hours to read something about Bari, how St Nicholas arrived in Bari in early 13th Century and how was the town established to be a capital city of Meridetrien sea. I was quickly learning that the region defined itself as much by its past as its present. Not just Napoli, Pompeil, and Bari Itself, all the great cities of the South living in the shadow of events that had taken place nearly eight hundred years ago. Books, sourvenirs, postcards, an entire tourist industry had grown up on the back of it. Like Bari, the old days building is still comprehensively preserved for next generations. I have learned that ( from Lucia), the governement just clean all areas from Mafia or road gengster in order to attract more tourists to Bari. As i can see that, the city was shining and live!.. and small industries grown as they were welcomed every tourist to their city.
The next day, we departed from Bari to Florence around 8.30am.
posted by Love Is Love @ 3:38 PM
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