It might seem like I am never satisfied with where I’m living, I always want to move. Until I came to Bologna, Italy. Here, I want to stay for a longer while.

Though not in summer, definitely not, so I left again.

Summer in Bologna is almost unbearable. The heat was trapped inside the city and there were no wind, no rivers, no lakes and no beaches to cool you down. There were two ways out, staying in the basement all day and go out at night, or leave the city and go somewhere near the sea.

I chose the latter, with no second thought. Also because I really missed seafood.

After asking around some Italians for the best places to go to the sea, the first answer was always Puglia, and then Sardegna. Since I have been to Puglia before, and the thought of a wild, untouched nature on the biggest island of Italy provoked my curiosity, making decision was that hard.

So I bought two cheap flights from Bologna over to the island of Sardegna.

Before coming here, I had a picture of Sardegna in my mind. Since everyone whom I told where I was going always said something like, ‘Wow, Sardegna is wonderful! But very expensive…’ so I just imagined this crystal clear blue water and white sandy beach.

I arrived at Alghero airport in the afternoon. To get to Sassari where my host lived, I had to take a bus which would leave in an hour an a half. Of course I didn’t want to wait at the airport for that long, so I wandered out to the parking area and decided I would ask someone who were about to leave just in case they were going to Sassari. I asked the first couple I saw, and jackpot, they were going exactly where I was going. So they gave me a lift straight into town.

They had two daughters, one lived in the mainland of Italy and the other in Lithuania. So they understood me, a girl who travelled abroad by herself. They wanted to welcome me to their country and gave me a good first impression, the same way that they wanted other people to do it to their daughters who lived far away from them.

And so my first impression of Sardegna was memorable. I hope it would continue to be wonderful like this.