Best Western Hotel Re Enzo Bologna

... decided to not be present for my arrival. I have found an internet cafe and decided to write. I also was able to post a few more pictures but on Facebook so I'll send you links and hope they work!

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Love to all!
Benita

... 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.

... been told the wrong bus number!! The lady gave us a bus map and new directions and off we went. Found what we thought was the right bus, but after a while I realized it was going the WRONG WAY.. AAGGHHH!! So off we jumped, crossed the road and tried again – surely this one would take us there. We basically crossed from one side of the city to the other, and got off where the tourist info lady had told us to. We were in the middle of NO WHERE. Like the outer ...

... listened to me clumsily ask if they took cardo di credit/ bancomat cards. She said yes. I only had 13 euros cash to my name, so this was coming out of my checking account. Next I had to figure out how to get a small shopping cart. Outside they had large ones, but I just wanted the smaller one. I almost asked a guy who just walked out if I could get his mini cart but thank goodness I didn't because when I walked up to the cart corral outside the store, I ...

... were closing the doors. After arriving in London we found that though we had made the flight, our bags did not. Tired and sweaty we walked out into the English rain having in our posession only the clothes on our backs. The London Underground rail system made things a lot easier for us to find our destination across town. We made it to Keong Leongs house, the man who is a London affiliate of Allisons church. He was more than generous and bought us our first ...

The journey continues...... It is very different living in one place for 4 months than it is traveling for a similar time period. We arrived in Bologna to the very pleasant surprise of an apartment with loads of space, great light and in the very center of town so that walking will be the principal mode of transportation. The apartment belongs to one of my oldest friends, Giusi (Jewzy) Gardenghi, who was a fashion model in the 1970's and who was one of the models that I ...

... I walked through a market here in Bologna, and had a sensory attack of fresh fish, flowers and sausages. However in the markets that I have been to in Geneva, the most pungent smells are the cheeses (not nearly as strong as octopus). And to bring back that point about jay walking not existing in Switzerland (remember even in the middle of the night when there is no traffic people will wait) - I was shocked, in Italy, to see at the intersection ...

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Once inside the gates and his passport was checked, our cameras, phones and anything else capable of taking photos were locked away in the reception room and then we were transported by bus across to the far side of the factory site. But that was pretty much where the close supervision of the dozen or so owners and their guests ended. For the next few hours I was amazed how the tour guide didn’t seem to mind how far away we wandered from her in ...

June 10, 2002

Back on the bus! This time to Italy!! We went to Pisa (and had pizza for lunch!) We saw the tower, of course, and the church. Got to shop in the souvenir shops and sit for awhile in the sun. Very peaceful day. I can tell I'm getting tired, because the travel journal entries are shorter and shorter!




We were in ...