Castello Hotel Bologna
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Bologna
... with them... but a good one most of the time.
When we got to Bologna of course Zuzia could not park the car but Miguel just woke up from sleeping and did it. Yes we totally fulfill those stereotypes.
Sadly we missed the christmas-market, but we kept telling us it would not have been good anyway.
We also saw Gregory, the pope that invented our calender of today, very ...
Bologna
... nobody ever came to check the tickets so we were fine out in the aisle. We got out and started heading for the hotel (the walk leading us through all the sites). We saw pizza nettune (Neptune square) and then saw Santa Maria Delle Sanita. That was really pretty:) We dropped our bags off at the hotel (we have a balcony too which we discovered) and went to eat lunch. We asked a nice construction guy where the pizza San domenico was so we could eat in their pretty court yard. I fed ...
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
... at Lara's house we were introduced to her three housemates: Cristina, Antonella and Sara. They were possibly the coolest girls that I have ever met in my life and as we stumbled in sweaty and tired from our travels we felt more than a little inadequate in our dirty clothes and hurried to tidy ourselves up. The girls were so lovely and welcoming but spoke barely a word of English making for large arm movements, slow, loud, talking and long, awkward silences, ...
Faulty Towers
... what to do.
We both really enjoyed Bologna. Its quite a relaxed place with lovely delicatessens and cafes. We spent the afternoon strolling through the streets. It is a real university city so there is a lot happening and many bustling bars.
We found a lovely (and cheap) restaurant for dinner and enjoyed it so much that we went back again the 2nd ...