Abc A Bologna In B&B

... easy and not force myself to run up and down mountains! It's okay to take a day off I beleive. In acknowledgement of my cold, I decided I should have a proper meal at a proper table, and just enjoy some good food!
I ordered what is considered a pasta that is chacter to Ferrara. and It was breaktakingly sumptous! A type of ravioli with Pumpkin inside drizzled all over with a butter and sage sauce. I ate these ...

... from rocking out of tight situations.

Ferrara Highlights
9200 meters of city walls commissioned by Duke Ercole d'Este and built between 1493 and 1505 with walking paths on top.

Castello Estense de Ferrara--a defensive structure from the early middle ages that dominates the old city surrounded by moat. The Castello Estense was menacing from the outside and lavishly decorated on the inside. You could feel the history and understand the ...

Short train ride from Florence after a hair raising trip trying to return the rental car in confusing, congested and traffic restrictied Florence (don't rent a car downtown go to the airport). Bologna is an university town (even Johns Hopkin has a campus). Very historical town with a great plaza area like most towns and a great antique market.

We said "arrivederci" (bye) to Venice with a final vaporetto ride down the Grand Canal to the train station. Two hours later we arrived to a completely different region of Italy. Bologna is located in the Emilia-Romagna region. This is the breadbasket of Italy where much of the produce is grown and is also home to prosciutto ham, parmesan cheese, and basalmic vinegar. After four days in Venice, Bologna is like cold water poured on ...

... I started taking summer classes because, if you haven't already heard, I've enrolled in a graduate school program. Fortunately, I am spending my first year at the school's campus in Bologna, Italy. (This option to study abroad was definitely an attractive feature of this program.) Throughout the month of August, I was too busy with summer classes to think about my upcoming move to Europe. In the brief moments of my day when I was able to ...

... t speak much English, but Anna, who is from Poland, spoke it perfectly so everything was mostly understood. She has been in Italy for seven years, but she speaks with a southern accent (where she first learned Italian). Their town is called Pianoro Nouvo, I think. After we left Anna and Antonio's, we went back for dinner and showered. We watched a movie in the gazebo and went to bed.

... area, and how the duration spent in each section was driven more by how long we were interested in staying rather than a pre-determined timetable. The only rule was that we weren’t to touch anything. I’m sure the workers hate it though, with these nosey visitors having so much freedom to get in their way while they’re trying to work.

With the Research and Development and Formula One sections strictly off-limits, the first stop after a ...

... More fish stalls were open and the Italian women were lined up to buy their fish. My English friend from last night recommended I visit the Santa Maria della Vita church for its shocking and disturbing terracotta statues. Entitled Lament Over the Dead, it is quite a scene. I stared at it for minutes. I visited the Santo Stefano church, which was very interesting. There is a small museum and lovely cloister. While heading through the University ...

... when another sectretary told me where to go - and finally the clerkship started. After the ward round some doctors discussed a very interesting case of Creutzfeld Jacob Disease on the ward, so I really learned something that day. When I went home by noon, they told me that it had no sense to show up before nine - they would not begin to work earlier than that. What a difference to Germany!

... for dinner. It’s a beautiful spa town and smells good! I took a long walk through the park and had a Gran Marnier on the patio. Peggy had Amaretto which pleased the bartender/host. He didn’t like my ordering a French liqueur! The hotel was one of the nicest on our tour.

We left our window open and it was actually cold when we got up!