Hotel Piccolo Ravenna

... Dave is having a lot more success at tanning than me.

So the time has come to move on again. Tomorrow we are getting the morning train to Venice, hopefully giving us the afternoon to look around and have some dinner before getting the night train to Budapest. It will be our first experience of a sleeper train and we have heard mixed reviews. Still, we are both excited and can't wait to get to Hungary... a step closer to Moscow!

Love!

Amy and Dave xx

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...so that is one way to paint it. Sounds lovely, doesn't it? Well it is!!

But this picture is also true...

I have wondered why on earth I knowingly and willfully came here!? Is this fun? Well heck no!!! It is hard work, I am in the middle of nowhere, it is filthy dirty – practically a junkyard! The conditions for the animals, in Italian standards are fair. However, I have a hard time stomaching it. The cows are kept in chains in a shed, the pigs in a ...

... watching the goats being entirely uncooperative and Mark being determined to outsmart them. I can almost hear his thoughts - "must be smarter than the goats... C'mere you little...#(@^#@*!!" ha! (We do work shifts here - I'm on the afternoon shift - for those of you wondering why I might be allowing the goats to run wild as I sit back and snicker! lol! )

But I'll back up in time a bit and give the low down leading to now....

After saying ...

... lustige Begebenheiten hab ich davon meinen Damen **zählt - und die haben ziemlichen Spass dabei gehabt .... grrrrr :-( ;-) :-)

Haben dann ab** auf einen Aufenthalt in C**via v**zichtet und uns am Campingplatz in Cesenatico einquarti**t.

Leck** Abendessen im Restaurant am Platz ( Sepiaspiesse für Sarah ) - Pasta für Hannah - und nach ein** 3/4 Stunde Calzone für Paps :-)

... front. The beach is broken into sections each section has a restaurant, sporting stuff (basketball hoops, Volleyball, Gyms, etc.) lounge chairs and umbrellas. Some even have an outdoor gym. The beach is actually sand, which is a novelty for Italy. We picked up some of the free bikes from the hotel and rode all around the city. I stopped and had a quick swim, Outside of the fact both of our asses were completely numb and bruised afterwards (not the best bikes ...

Ravenna was somewhere Matt had insisted we visit, so I included it as a day trip in our packed itinerary. Little did I realise this would be the highlight of our trip. Ravenna is possibly the only place on earth where you can visit 8 UN World Heritage sites in less than a day (although we unfortunately only managed 7, as one was closed for renovations).

Home to the oldest and best ...

... as the bikes were not fully restored and were housed in a 2 level building on what seemed to be this mans home land. The smell of oil covered the place and we saw some very old bikes including Guzzis. Wayne loved it as the bikes were in original conditions , cleaned but not restored. While we there someone turned up and the man turned him away saying the museum was closed and when he saw us the man said we had a special entry because we were from ...

... heavy. So that was my breakfast that morning. That's my brief description of Ravenna. Sorry that it isn't more extravigant, but it was raining and sad. But funny story, when my friends and I totally didn't know how to get to the train station and we followed our group leaders that we already told that we were not going back with them. It was really funny. Anyways, Bologna I'll write about it tomorrow.

Mi sono innamorata di Italia quando ero molto piccola e mio cugino, che studiava medicina a Siena, mi ha dato un album di litfiba. Come passavano gli anni ho preso diversi corsi d'italiano in una prova di imparare la lingua.
Quando avevo 15 anni i miei genitori hanno deciso che facciamo il giro di Italia. Firenze era la citta che ha rubato i miei impressioni.
Dopo molti anni, il 2007, ho preso la decisione di andare per un paio di mesi a Milano per ...

... a small playground for kids. I finally made it back to the station and dropped my backpack off there so I wouldn't have to lug it around. Ravenna is a very cute city, similar to the many other ones I've seen in Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna. Like Ferrara, everyone has a bike, and there are bike paths everywhere. Near the train station there was this church, which I ...