Bubbles and Bollicine

Bollicine is bubbles in Italian. The reason for the repetition is that Saturday night was the night of bubbles for us. We met for aperitivi at Bar Walter and the early spring had lured everyone in Trieste out on the streets for a drink. Having taken 20 or more minutes for us to get the first drink, we decided to move on to somewhere where the drinks could flow more freely.
I'm not sure why we started on bubbles when we got to Cafe del Mar but it obviously seemed the perfect drink, as when we moved onto La Vida - the wine bar next door - we stuck to bubbles. We might be spending more time at La Vida - its a place that I have been for wine a few times with Ciccio, his flatmate Mattea, and Ale in the past - but we have never been there as a group before. The barmen were really friendly and also generously gave us a free bottle of bubbles, and a vat of free pasta alongside the normal fruit and nibbles - this time - chocolate cake.
We had a lot of laughs, and ended the night in Mandracchio, burning off the calories from the chocolate cake and pasta with a bit of dancing!
On the subject of Bollicine, it is also the name of a new bar alongside the canal that looks lovely but wildly expensive by Trieste standards. Massi and I have decided that we will go in there for a drink when we are here for our graduation ceremony. The original idea behind this was that by then we would have a job so could afford the prices. But currently internships are being offered at Euros 1000 a month or less. So maybe the graduation drink will be at Giovanni with the wine from the barrel in plastic cola bottles...