Sara is a 19-year-old girl full of personality who lives a boring and difficult life and clings to all her dreams as motivation for the future, but will she be able to make them come true? With 30 years, she will tell us how all of it happened, how...
It had been two years since we were in Toronto and the beginning of the 3rd year couldn't have started better: we had both been raised and as we had done some extra hours, we could take some extra vacation days.
We were playing in the snow with Cookie one day and started to decide where we would go that summer. Miguel and I had always wanted to travel since neither of us had had the chance before, so we were very happy to be able to accomplish that dream. We also wanted to be intelligent and spared so we bought the tickets with some antecedence, decided to go at the cheapest time -June- and would rent Airbnb's.
We spent 4 days in Rotterdam with Trina; it was very good to be with her again and she lived in a beautiful city. There were immense green spaces in various places where we passed, with flat landscapes, canals, tulip fields, windmills and cycling routes.
In Amsterdam, we stayed for another 4 days where we visited the Van Gogh Museum and Anne Frank's house since both of the places represented subjects that interested us a lot: art, culture and the tragic story of someone that described how it was to live in fear during the Second World War.
We loved the Netherlands and left with the certainty that we would want to go back but it was time to fly to our next destination: Italy. We stayed there for 8 days, in which time we visited 4 cities: Milan, Florence, Venice and Rome. What we ate most during those days were pizza, pasta and ice cream because Miguel and I loved the three things and Italians were really the best at it.
When we got to Rome, we met Francisca who was also there due to a football match. She loved football and travelling so she joined both things in one many times, which I thought was a great idea.
We visited the Colosseum and the Trevi Fountain, among many other monuments while we were with her, and then we took the train to Florence where we visited the Uffizi Gallery and saw Michelangelo's statue: David.
The next stop was Milan, the city of fashion, where we visited the Milan Cathedral because of its architecture. It was a fantastic place, in and out, and even though we weren't religious, we knew and liked to appreciate that type of building for its culture and history.
We had thought about visiting Portugal, after leaving Italy, but that didn't happen because, when we arrived in Venice to spend the last days, we made a video call with my family that made me change my mind. My grandma started to complain about the time we would spend in Porto because she thought we should be more there than in other places.
- "Alright then, we won't go, we'll go back to our home, in Toronto." She was in shock and I started hearing my father arguing with her "Save it, dad. It's okay, we will go there on Christmas. Send my love to Beni and Afonso." and I hang up.
- "Come Sara, let's see the city so we can have dinner and watch the sunset after. And we'll buy the tickets to Toronto during lunch." He knew how much that subject upset me so he made everything he could for me to feel better.
We went on a "gondola" -a boat they use to travel in the Venice rivers to see the city- and it was so beautiful, full of bridges and colourful houses. Italy had also conquered our hearts, we loved it not only for the food but also for the great presence of art and culture.
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
