Stuck in Modena

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After lunch we caught the train towards Bologna further East. In Modena the train stopped in the station and an announcement was made that there was a problem with the tracks ahead. We sat there for at least an hour before we decided that it wasn’t going anywhere. Matt went and argued with the guy at the ticket counter for about 15 minutes in order to get a 2euro refund on the unused part of our fare. Eventually we caught a train to Milano and then another one to Pavia. It ended up being a long day of travel without much sightseeing.
We later found out that there was a big MTV festival in Bologna which we would have seen had we gotten there. The train that was stuck was packed with high school aged Italians on their way there. Italians dress extremely fashionably pretty much all of the time. The newest fashion in Italian men’s haircuts is the mullet. Almost all of the younger guys on the train had full on mullets. I kid you not. It was pretty funny. Maybe this craze will be sweeping the U.S. sometime soon.