When I traveled to Italy last month, I visited Rimini. You should get a bus near the Rimini station to go to San marino, which is the smallest republic all over the world.

I had to have my suitcase kept in a locker in the station. I found the lockers at the edge of the platform. When I was at a loss how to the locker, a slender young woman came close to me. She also tried to put her bag in the locker. I asked, ‘Do you speak English?’ ‘No’, she said but she told me in Italian how to use the locker, showing by a gesture. So I knew I needed 5 euro coins and went to a kiosk for changing money.

It was very cold and rained on the day. I forgot to take my umbrella from my suitcase…and I bought new one for 6 euro at a tabacco shop in front of the station before I got on the bus.

It took about 50 minutes to San Marino by bus. It was colder there than in Rimini because it locates at the top of a mountain. I saw a temperature indicator show 3°C. I didn’t have any winter clothes. To be worst, It was a foggy day. It was too foggy to see someone who walked in front of me..

All I did there was visit the national museum and a cafe, a post office.. And I wrote two cards and post them there.

So I didn’t enjoy staying the city. I got a bus at 5 ahead of schedule and came back to Rimini.

When I crossed the road after I got off the bus, I felt someone watching me. I turned around and found a woman who stood in front of the tabacco shop where I bought the umbrella look at me. We looked at each other and she smiled. Although I didn’t remember her and didn’t know why she smiled then, I bowed a little and passed.

It was not until I got to the Rimini station and opened the locker that I recalled who she was. I met her that morning, indeed. I felt that seeing again by chance was a kind of luck for my trip.

That day was a washout but not a total.