StringerBell wrote:I've been to Trento but never made it as far as Bolzano. Are the pyramids like the ones in Zone, or totally different? Do you feel like it's a place definitely worth visiting? Does anything in particular stand out?
Yes, they look exactly like those
I do think Bolzano is worth visiting. I've only been to Trento briefly on a day trip, but my impression was that it still felt culturally very Italian. Once you get to Bolzano and the villages beyond, things start to feel more Germanic and it's a really interesting combination of cultures. You're still in Italy and everyone is able to switch to speaking Italian without blinking, but people seem more likely to address you in German first and the food really makes you feel like you're in Austria rather than Italy. It's an interesting area with an interesting history, plus some beautiful views of the mountains. I am definitely not a museum person but the archaeological museum in Bolzano is one of the few museums I've genuinely enjoyed in recent years; as Iverson has alluded to, there's a really good exhibition there about Ötzi the Iceman. 21 December
It was forecast to rain all day in Bolzano today so we travelled north to Brenner, a small village on the Austrian border. It was high enough there for the rain to be snow, which was really pretty
Russian
When I got back in the evening I tackled the rest of chapter 17 of Penguin Russian. It feels like I've been on this chapter forever now but I finally got to the end. I made notes on the section about how to say what year something happened in etc and then I did the exercises. They didn't go as badly as I expected, although my mind is still a bit overwhelmed by when things should be in the genitive and when in the prepositional. I do feel like I am making a bit of progress with the future perfective too, which obviously wasn't the aim of these particular exercises but which did crop up in them a bit. I've now reached a point in the book which surpasses my Memrise course, so I should really try inputting the vocabulary tomorrow (and hope that Forvo is working again!).
Total time = 32 minutes. Streak = 355 days
It was actually quite hard to fit it in, but one of my presents was a reusable notebook and I was quite excited about trying that out, so I took lots of notes about the comparative from Penguin Russian and the first two exercises from that chapter too.
