Travelin Monkey

This one deserves its own entry..

We met up with raffi & kursh (other friends from los angeles) in Nice. They got there the same day we had and that was their first day on this vacation. We spent the day on the beach, which is gorgeous, and at night watching Englands sorry ass finally leave the tournament (go ronaldo). At night, we went to downtown Nice’ to catch the Fra vs Bra game, all ready to cheer for Brasil. I almost got killed yelling for Ronaldo & Ronaldhino hehe but i would have just told them i was German hahah
Anyhow, NO ONE expected France to win, so we knew the celebration would be NUTS. After searching and searching, we found the chaos in front of the beach. I started jumping into random people’s cars partying with them and going for rides on their hoods. It was very similar to what we saw in Milan, except that this was more chaos. Eventually, we ended up jumping on the hoods of every car that passed by, everyone having a great time (it’s all on tape baby). We had a bottle of Jackie with us and raff & i were getting TRASHED. The funny thing was, the contents of the whiskey bottle were warmer than the actual glass.

Fast forwarding a couple of hours, some drunken ass decided to plow through the crowd with his car and almost hit people going forward & reverse. A guy tried to throw a bottle at the car and ended up hitting the floor in front of me, raff, and kok. Raff was wearing shorts and got shrapnel to the legs, causing a 3 cm x 2 cm gash. Kok and I began our emergency training protocols drunk as all hell. That’s when the ass driver came back around, hit some guy dislocating his shoulder right in front of us, then hitting some other guy on a motorcycle causing him to fly off. This is when the riot police began to come..

We both stabilized Raffi; then I went to help the guy with the dislocated shoulder while kok stabilized the guy from the bike. Once we had all 3 of them under control, i called an ambulance to the scene. 2 riot cops showed up and started to beat the shit out of a rioter on a motorcycle. We needed help, so I decided to go get them… and BAM.. sprayed in the face with mace. I started telling them in broken French that we needed an ambulance and took them to the guys, sneezing and tearing at that point. Once the ambulance came, kok & i took a ride with raff and the other 2 guys to the ER, where they stitched up raff and took care of the other 2. We ended up coming home all bloodied up at 4 am..

What a night…

The next day we headed to Monte Carlo which is AMAZING!!! The drive is definately worth it, and they even had a soccer field over a cliff overlooking the ocean!! There isn’t much to do there, except enjoy it for the day. We also checked out Cannes….. but it is expensive to go on to the really small sandy beached (most of them have huge rocks)

Sandro took off to Moscow and raff & kursh are in Milan right now. Kok and I drove all morning and are in Lyon. Tomorrow we head out to Paris to watch the Fra vs Por game in Paris!!

WOW..

Words can’t express what the last couple of days have been like, but I’ll give it a go….

From Strausberg, we headed towards Switzerland on our way to Italy. We are following the countries we think are going to play and win, so we party with the locals… hehhe

We had some time to kill and didn’t want to drive 12 hours straight to Italy, so we stopped off in Geneva. It’s a neat town, busy during the day but dead at night. There wasn’t much to do there, we spent the day exploring then rested after dinner. We even saw a Haitian group fighting with each other and caught it on tape!

We woke up at midnight, had something to eat, then headed out towads Italy at 3 am. We passed through a 14 km tunnel through Mont Blanc and ended up in Italy. I must say that the contry has done me very well every time I have visited!!

We got to Venice at 9 am, I drove from 4 am until 9 am, spent 3 hours walking around, then headed to the Armo museaum they had there and got a personal tour. It turns out that the guy lived in Argentina for 15 years and knows Adolfo. From Venice we drove to Milan, ate dinner, and crashed early for the debacuhery that would be Italy and Ukraine.

Milan is an amazingly beautiful city. They have a ridiculous castle in the middle of the town with some old churches surrounded by miles and miles of shops. It is like the Rodeo drive of Italy. We found this old church and were randomly exploring, when we crossed a couple having sex in the middle of the grass. Not hidden, secret sex, but straight out the girl was on all 4s in the middle of the park in the middle of the day!! So, I sat down to watch and these idiots started calling me a perv.. to which i responded “they are having sex in front of an old cathedral in the middle of the park in the middle of the day and I am the perv for watching?”

Either way, from there we went to a pub to watch Argentina’s sorry ass lose their way out of the world cup!! Holy shit was everyone mad at me when I started to cheer, especially sandro who almost cried!! hahahahha We left the pub and went to an argentinean steak houe for dinner, where we watched the Ita vs UKR game. Sayat & sandro left to go home because sayats grandpa passed and he was taking an emergency flight back to LA in the morning and sandro didn’t want to party and we needed a driver!!!

sooooooooooo here comes riot #3. First was in Leipzig and the train station, then Strausberg, and now MILAN MILAN MILAN!!!
Italians are CRAZY. I got up on a statue to film and a cop yelled at me to get down. This becomes important later on. From there we started to yell and scream with the people. kok & i bought Italian flags and wore them as capes and started rioting. We blocked off 2 major intersections and were about 5,000 people total in the main square of Milan. We stopped cars and shook the hell out of them, some people even stopped the trolley to the point where the driver called the police for backup, who ended up getting their car destroyed!! We rioted for a while longer and I have some amazing footage of everything, when i saw a camera and decided i wanted to be on Italian tv… So, back we went to the original statue and semi-hoped on it again… the same freakin cop was there and now he wanted to arrest me!!

He asked for my document and i hesitated because i left the uruguayan id in the hotel and all i had was my US passport.. after 5 min he let me go with a warning. The people were growing in numbers and the chaos increasing.? Plus, we were tired and heading to Nice in the morning? So, we decided to go to the hotel.

Problems:
1) the tram we needed to take was the one we all destroyed
2) the metro closes at midnight
3) taxis were on strike
4) we had no map nor any idea where the hell we were!!

It’s interesting how quickly you can pick Italian up!! I eneded up finding a taxi willing to take us to the hotel. The next day we dropped sayat off and headed to Nice in the French Riviera..

I’ll continue the rest in a seperate entry because this one is long enough!!