Hotel Internazionale Bologna

... easy and not force myself to run up and down mountains! It's okay to take a day off I beleive. In acknowledgement of my cold, I decided I should have a proper meal at a proper table, and just enjoy some good food!<br>I ordered what is considered a pasta that is chacter to Ferrara. and It was breaktakingly sumptous! A type of ravioli with Pumpkin inside drizzled all over with a butter and sage sauce. I ate these ...

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 language. Gherardo was a willing wealth of knowledge, and taught me that if a man in Italy is wearing a bespoke suit, he unbuttons the last button on the cuff of his suit, to signify this. I started looking for it and saw it all over the place. <br><br>After dinner we rushed to catch our train back to the hotel, but we missed it. It was close to midnight, and no more trains. After haggling with ...

... we spent in the Vatican and we even attended a full Italian mass in St Pietro's...Also, for me, the Sound of Music tour in the Swiss Alps, we had a hysterical tour guide, so the kids loved it too because of his funny jokes. But, they would not sing the songs with me and kept telling me to not sing so loud on the bus..I have gotten very good at embarrassing them..<br><br>We also took a horse drawn carriage around Zermatt instead of going up ...

After practice Edwin who had said on Friday said he was going to Bologna, now said he wasn't going to Bologna, which really screwed the Bologna guys and myself over, because they drove two cars to accommodate both Edwina and I. If it had just been me, we would have been fine driving just one. Everyone's gas expense was just doubled. We stopped at a rest stop and got some sandwiches and beer (only in Europe) then were back on the road. Pasquale and I talked ...

... with lovely courtyards that are surprisingly quiet given the hum of Bologna is just outside. One such courtyard is decorated with the names of the Bolognese who perished in WWI and a hall with the names of those who died in WWII. Through another courtyard we found a small chapel dedicated to the Bolognese who served in the Air Force. The room is covered in photographs of those who passed as long ago as the First World War or as ...

... htm In case we won't have time to visit the city of Parma, we will have to taste our Proscuitto di Parma and Parmasaen cheese in Bologna -- still counts since it's in the Emilia-Romagna region, right? For another perspective on the same trip, check out the member travelpods of our friends and traveling companions -- barbers and forrests.

... of day-trippers pouring out of the streets away from Piazza delle Erbe, and we somehow missed Verona&#8217;s most famous tourist spot, Juliet&#8217;s mythical balcony from that Shakespeare play, in the small amount of time we had to meander the streets. But we had to press on because dinner was waiting. <br><br>Heading westwards to Brescia and then making for Iseo (a town on a lake of the same name) without any real idea of where we were going, we were hampered ...

This was one of the many stops we made on our journey to Germany! Athens (Greece) - Patra (Greece) - Bari (Italy) - Bologna (Italy) - Munich (Germany) If you do travel through Bologna, make sure you stop and have some pasta. They are supposed to be famous for their Bolognia spaghetti sauce. I had some of the best lasagna ever!!! bryan and vivian clouds, frowns, sunshine and smiles!

June 10, 2002<br><br>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!<br> <br><br><br><br>We were in ...