Hotel Europa Reggio Emilia

... a hello, and how are you. I sat. Looked around, fought the urge to find a book to read. I thought in the end that might be a little rude so I didn't (until Sunday...) I listened to what were suppose to be words bouncing off my brain leaving little indentations but not deep enough to soak in. So many different words trying to bash their way into my over muddled brain. I do think however that I have an advantage over my parents even in this ...

... pasta with mushrooms and prosciutto; also very good.

We sat in the town square, reading, until I realized I had fallen asleep! We went back to the room at about 8:00 and continued to read until we both fell asleep again. We awoke about 10:30 and walked to the pizza restaurant three doors away from the hotel for a scrumptious ham and cheese pizza.

We finally turned in at midnight. What a great day!

So we decided to wing it today and just got on the train for a day trip to Parma. This was one of the places that was on my must do list. We tried to find the tourist office but it was closing in 10 minutes and we (as usual) didnt know where we were going. Almost everything shuts down in the afternoons over here and i guess the tourism office was no different. We had some time to kill so we got a bit of ...

Left the waterways of Venice early, as we had a very important date with the Ferrari family.
Such as BMW has a Welt ("world" in German).. Ferrari has itself a Universe all to its own... tucked behind the old gates is a world of Rosso. The factory is quiet, clean and the sight of all those beautiful engine parts that will become a Ferrari motor is breathtaking.

The road car production is amazing. The ...

... he had baked cod [that was not done] and I had two types of pork one was a pork cheek and I’m not sure what the other was) let’s just say that the wine was the best thing about the meal. I guess we are not very cultured.
We went back to the apartment and finished off the gelato which was yummy.
Another note is the food choices that we have been offered: cow, pig, rabbit, duck, donkey and pigeon

Today we ventured into Parma we had better luck parking today. It had to be the nicest parking garage ever. Each spot had either a green/unoccupied or red/occupied light right above it and there was music playing over the loud speaker very cool! We had a lunch of tomato and basil pasta with a dessert plate of the meats of Parma. We walked around Parma saw a ...

... cities like Parma, Modena and Bologna lined up every 30 kiometers or so along the valley. Bologna is the big dog, a couple million people with macho industry. The other smaller cities are content to live a quieter style, but no less proud of their own achievements and contributions to world culture. Reggio Emilia was developed starting in 193 BC as a textbook Roman city, on a site previously inhabited by Ligurians, Celts, Etruscans and Gauls, all the same ...

... was because I didn't have a lot of freedom to travel where and when I wanted when I was living here. Don't get me wrong, I still travelled, just not whenever I wanted to. I guess that's for the best 'cause I would have always been in a different bed every night of the year. Speaking of which, I didn't yet know where I was sleeping when I got to Reggio. My dear, dear host-brother, Andrea (whom I do get along with very well - - don't get me wrong) neglected to tell the ...

(Originally published at http://www.troysgonewalkabout.com)
< br>Though it’s free of charge, not everyone can tour the Ferrari factory – there’s just the small matter of admission being limited to those who actually own one. But with Hoges the proud owner of a blue 1979 Ferrari 308 and a member of the Australian Ferrari Club, it had been a relatively straightforward process of cross-checking his chassis numbers and then setting a date to come ...

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 ...