This weekend I'm taking the train to the Adriatic coast, to a beach town called Pesaro (PAYZ eh roe). This is my first ever trip to the Adriatic, and actually I've never been farther east than Bologna. My friend Semone from the blog Gastronomer wanted photos from the Pesaro Wine Festival, so she sent me her press pass and here I am. 

I started around 9am on a train cutting across the north of Italy to Bologna where I'll change trains. Then we'll head south and to the coast. 

Out the dirty windows of the regional train it's a beautiful spring day. We stop at almost every station on our trip through farmland where the grass is full-on green. Early spring forsythia and flowering cherries dot the landscape. Oh god, I'm so glad the winter is over.

I had a great chat with an Architecture student from Mexico City who's studying in Milan. He's been hiding from the weather since arriving in February, and now he's busting loose. Watch out Italy, JM is on the move!