Asti ended up being a great great trip but in the beginning it was a little shaky. We got here at 9:30am and nothing was open. It was dead and we all were worried that we came to a city to do nothing.
We went to the cafe in the train station and got some food. Victor asked the bar tender of a place we could go to to drink some wine from Asti.
He gave us the name and number of a restaurant . I called it and asked when it opened, made reservations and made it clear that we wanted to drink wine.
By this time it was only 10:30am and it was cold! A lot colder than its been this past week in Torino (besides the two snow days) and not like Genova. It's a smaller town and since it was Sunday, no one was around. We were all bummed but we were trying to stay positive since we had lunch reservations at 12. There was 8 of us in our little group but there was maybe 16 of us all together. Our group was the perfect group! We had such a great time together and all got along really well.
As we were walking around, trying to kill time. We came across a church that was having mass. We went to sit it, well it was in portuguese. Joe & I were asking each other "do you know what they're saying?" we assumed it was going to be in Italian!! Haha we felt like idiots but it was cool to see it and listen.
Once it was 12, we headed to the restaurant. It was excellent! I finally got some good food in me. We sat down and they served us champagne right away plus some salami, bread and breadsticks.
We order 4L of red wine, it was the restaurants house wine which was from Asti. It was delicious. I feel like I'm becoming such a pro at wine. (Dad you'd be proud!) For lunch I got ravioli with hen. They were excellent. Easily another top delicious plate I've had here. The ravioli were small and melted in my mouth. Victor also got the ravioli but as a second plate, he got horse meat!! He said it was delicious. I really want to try it next time we go out that offers it. Apparently it's really good in Venice.
After we ate, we order a bottle of their famous Asti champagne. It was so sweet and decadent. Everyone was feeling really good. We were having such a great time together. Another moment where I was truly happy to be in Italy.
We were probably in the restaurant for 2 hours. It was amazing! Another cool thing about the restaurant, all their waiters had down syndrome. We believe that Asti has a hospital or special clinic for people with special needs because we saw a lot of people like that.
After lunch, we walked around the piazza but since everything was closed, there was a huge garage sale going on. People have some crazy shit in their house! Haha but after we looked around for an hour or so, we all hit a brick wall and got super tired. Just decided to come home, take a nap and relax. Over all it luckily ended up being a good day but not as good at Genova.
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