Daytrip - the first of the year!
After spending most of my Christmas vacation cocooning in my house, I felt a might need to kickstart the year with a proper daytrip :D
I wanted to go to Mantua but the forecast was foggy until late afternoon, so instead I took the new train line that goes from my train station to Mortara (always try a new train line, especially if it goes on a bit of rail that up until very recently was used only for train manouvers!)
Of course it was also foggy in Mortara XD but I actually got some sun there
And an interestingly named cafè XD
Next stop: Vigevano, which for some reason never got on my radar of interesting places to visit but turned out to have a castle
a car free walled historic centre
and a giant Renaissance square, with a beautiful cathedral.
Also this very cool dudes with the touristic info on their backs <3
I went back to Mortara and caught the train from there to Pavia, on one of the secondary routes that connect cities directly to each other (most of them are still not electrified and single track, and I love them).
Most of the stations on these lines have been reclassified as stops, the building closed but luckily still there.
I managed to take exactly 0 photos in Pavia (I've been there before + the weather was getting shittier). Mostly I went there because I didn't want to get back home via the same route, and this was the only options. I still took a walk through the city center, which is very pretty.
From Pavia I could have gone straight home (the cold and they greyness were starting to get to me), but it was quite early still and I had my day ticket for the train, so I hopped on an another secondary-line-train, this time to Codogno. I was also using the train rides to study (phd related stuff), which is something I haven't done since graduating, so it made sense to stay on the train a little longer.
And the truth is, I did miss it a bit. Learning things while the world changes outside the window, ah! I managed to go through more than a hundred pages of this book, and I've been struggling with it for days :D I guess this will not be my last study-daytrip :D
