- October 30, 2008 4:33 AM
- Pondering
イタリアに来て一週間。え、まだそれしか経ってないの？という感じ。こっちの生活にも少しは慣れたけど、やっぱり東京って本当に色んな意味で便利だし、住みやすいよね。9ヶ月住んでいたけど、今回はイタリアで初の運転！アメリカにいた頃は車は必需品だった事もあり、毎日のように運転していた。ボストン市内も全然平気で運転してた。だったのだけど、大学卒業して日本に帰ってきてからは東京の交通の便が良いから車を運転する機会がめっきり減った。特にJILで働いてた2年間なんて土日もほとんど仕事で車に触れる事が一切なく。。。と言う事で自然と運転もにぶる。そんな私がイタリアで運転。しかも不本意ながらも作ったって感じのオートマ車。こわっ。運転は結構好きな方なのだけど、正直怖いよー。
とりあえず、イタリア人って運転と駐車がものすごくうまいなーと感心する毎日なのでした。さすがはフェラーリの国！？
今日が卓さんのイタリア最後の夜という事もあり、一ヶ月東京で色々とオフィスのセットアップを手伝ってくれたFabioと3人でディナー。写真でもわかるように、ものすごい量。しかもその前にパスタも食べてます。場所は丘の上の修道院。そこをトラットリアにした。写真ではわかりにくいけど、絶景でした。そしてものすごく美味しかった！
Can't believe that it's been ONLY a week since I got to Italy. Feels so much longer for some reason... Since the office is located in the outskirts of Bolgona in an area with definite need of a car, I have been driving. I never thought that I'd be driving in Italy! It's actually quite scary... Especially because I don't know where the heck I am going (okay, by now I know my way around the neighborhood) and also because the car I am driving really wasn't designed to be an automatic transmission car. It's understandable, since this is Italy, the land of cars (Ferrari, Maserati, etc) where everyone knows how to drive a manual and is the preferred way of driving. Anyway, the gears are just so weird. The car is designed to be both manual and automatic so it's really confusing...
Tonight was the last night in Italy for Taku, so Taku, Fabio (Italian IT person who was in Japan helping us out with the office set up) and I had dinner together at a beautiful restaurant up on the hill. It was actually a monastery, which was now being used as a restaurant. Hard to see but the first photo is the view of Bologna from the monastery. And as you can see from the photo, there were LOTS of food. But it was awesome food.
