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Bologna
Since Sunday's in Padova are really boring, we developed the habit of driving around northern Italy. We saw a lot of nice cities already. Last week we went to see Bologna, the oldest university. well we weren't able to look at it, because it is closed on sundays. But the red city was also nice to look at. It is called the red city because the stones are actually red marmor, and also because ...
Bologna
... too. We started walking Betty back to the train station and grabbed tortellini for dinner (it was alright but sadly not as good as described by our hotel owners). Betty almost missed her train because we didn't understand that they use one track but different sides of the train station to load more people on more trains - kind of super efficient but hard to navigate. Sara and I walked home and her poor feet have blisters :( but it was a great day and I can't wait for Venice ...
Amazing Race to Bologna
Sami and I left Monterosso early and caught a train to Bologna to stay with our good friends Justin & Ann (they recently took up residence there for a year sabbatical from work to learn Italian). We had a connecting train in Prato, but what we didn't know was that there were two stops in Prato. We got off the train on the first stop and the train we were meant to catch left the 2nd stop with 10 minutes to spare. We had one choice if we wanted to catch ...
Typically Italian
... her home, stopping on the way we admired the great castle that dominates the city, it is a huge fortress with a moat and architecture that is reminiscent of Eastern Europe, not a building I would naturally associate with the romance of Italy. I was immediately intrigued by this city and struck by the much larger and grander buildings than those found in the quaint villages that we had left behind. This seemed to be the more realistic side of Italy.
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Museo Ebraica
... following the bus route, in case we got tired. After awhile we came across the H&M store, and Annette did some shopping. Luckily for us, the bus stop was outside, as the shopping tired her out completely.
Now we are back at the hotel, about 5:30PM, relaxing and getting up to date on emails and this. Not sure what tonight will bring. Will check out a few websites and decide on Saturday's plans. Yes, the pictures are now updated. ...