Holiday Inn Bologna San Lazzaro

I climbed a tree today, I sat in this tree on a branch. Protected, Buffered. Cradled. I read my book, sitting in a tree.<br>Feeling guilty of all I am not doing. I watch people riding by ringing their bicycle bells. I am strangly humbled. I sit in this tree and watch, the water fall from the fountain, making its delicate shapes and slapping to the base as it loses its fight with gravity.<br>I notice with a small ...

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.

The book, the cursed book known as Lonely Planet advised as follows: cycling has become a popular tourist activity in Bologna. Rent a bike from this or that place, and ride Ferrara, following these road signs. Okay, Mandi and I thought. We're fit, we're active, we can do this. We rented bikes and with fantasies of idyllic rolling hillsides, endless vineyards, and fields full of wildflowers set off on ...

... is actually the same bus we just got off of, the guy just had to turn around and I guess he didn't think we were going to get back on. So anyway, it took us about an hour to get to our hotel after we got off the train (which was delayed by two hours) but we made it. As we check in i notice that there are six slots with room keys behind the front desk that are not numbered but have names of famous artists. We give the ...

As they'd say in Norfolk: now, Bologna, there&#8217;s a thing. By the time we arrived we only had a few hours in the city, but I loved every moment. Think of it as an unspoilt, miniature version of Florence: it had the beautiful Duomo, the Gelataria on every street corner, the Roman statues (check the photo of Neptune and I), a picturesque town square. OK, none of the above might be quite as grand as Florence, and certainly not as famous (or should that be notorious ...

... to find a receiver and ran left. There was a defensive end or linebacker sitting outside off me, and though he was in decent position I knew if I wanted yards I had to try and out run him to the sideline. I gave him a hesitation move then took of for the left sideline. I turned the corner, but he got a hand on my jersey and jerked me away from the sideline and back toward the middle of the field. Three other defenders had converged but this sudden change of ...

... hahaha....it is all starting to wear on me a bit....so finally i buck up and i notice just down the way a 93...ha, there's the dang stop right there and they didn't know????? argh.....so i go and wait and wait and wait....finally get the bus, thankfully a nice man at the stop figured out i was looking for ostello and in Italian said something and basically motioned me to get on the bus. i asked the driver and he said si....ok...so going and going and going and i am ...

... how long it took to get there and she said 45 minutes. So we had an hour and a half to get there before our flight. Super. We hail a taxi, he's an older gentleman, very nice, grandfather-looking man. He tells us the trip will cost us 118 euro...SUPER. But we have no other choice. So we have to go...he managed to get us there in a half hour and reassured us the whole time "Va bene"...it's okay. So of course I have him a hug, especially after he only charged us 110 ...

... had to be covered with stone centuries ago because it was already falling apart. We only saw two tiny pieces of the remains of those mosaics. There were also braces on some of the columns to make sure they were stable. There were also several courtyards between the churches, which I did take pictures of. ] Aren't they pretty? Our last stop on the tour was to see one of the canals that runs through Bologna. The city wasn't built ...

... or your favourite road car models and you&#8217;ll find them here. But despite how impressive it all was, I think Hoges and I had just seen a wider range of museum piece Ferraris on the factory floor. Ferrari seem to have saved the best vehicles for the pleasure and motivation of their employees going about their day-to-day work, and I liked that methodology a lot. <br> <br>With the primary goal of our trip completed, we set out to spend the rest of the ...