Hotel Savoia Regency Bologna

... thankfully this ended well! I arrived, unloaded, got signed in and found a supermarket! Bought some veggies and fruit to ward off scurvey and, what I thought was milk but later turned out to be some creamy gross stuff that I had to throw in the garbage with Flair!<br><br>The next morning is my tree day, I woke up feeling rather gross with a foggy head and a nose that was running away from me. I decided to take ...

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.

... miles from a little town north of Bologna to Ferrara. Luckily they have bike friendly trains here, because that's how we got home. <br><br>That night, we met Gherardo, a friend of my former professor's, who used to live in DC, so spoke very good English, for dinner. He took us to a "typical" Bologna restaurant, I ate amazing bolognese, and we peppered Gherardo with questions about Italy, Italians ...

So we spent a bit of time the night before we got here trying to secure some accomodation. We found the hotel online and it seemed like a good value even if it was a bit out of the way. Whats a 20 minute bus ride anyway. So we get on the bus, which is the right bus going in the wrong direction; we found this out when we got kicked off at the last stop. So we get off and then get on the next bus headed in the other direction ...

... historical and cultural endowments, I began to notice other things the longer I lived there. The glamour of seeing a new place began to wear off as I got into the swing of daily life. Getting to different places started to seem like a task, as the transportation system isn't always efficient. Customer service isn't as highly regarded as in the U.S. Italian food, like any other cuisine, can become tiresome without a variety of other options. And in general ...

... together, my friend Connie had to sit in another car, while Jackie and I were another one, though not together. But we made it Florence with only for a me a killer headache, but I slept so all was good. Having the three cities in three days thing was really awesome but soooo tiring!!! Luckily, I slept for like 12 hours Sunday night, so I was okay for school the next day. I'll tell you all about this week soon. Ciao!

... my seat told me that this was a train to Milan. (Bugger and bollocks.) I swore revenge on that Trenitalia station attendant, but before I could set off on my vendetta, the (really nice, sweet) guy who legitimately occupied my seat tore off after another Trenitalia employee, who examined my ticket, told me that the train departure platforms had been switched last minute and to not ...

... reliquiario which holds a relic, St. Dominica's head! The bones of his body are in the altar (sarcophogus - sp?) St. Dominica founded the Dominican order. A. talked the guide into opening the area by telling him we were from the US and he wanted to show us the best of Bologna. We laughed about it later. I suspect he said many other things to him. I called him a volpe (fox) and he seemed to like that. As we walked L also ...

... 20,000 was very impressive and Hoges and I explored it for quite some time. Though it now functions as Verona&#8217;s opera house, both of us independently came to the same conclusion that it could also be put to a slightly different, less Italian, use: Its mini-Melbourne Cricket Ground proportions were absolutely perfect for a game of backyard/park cricket with a large group of friends or extended family. <br><br>As it got dark we were walking against the ...

After a very brief stop over in Milan we got to Bologna at 9pm. Bologna is the home of Lasagna, Tagiatelly, Tortaliny and of course Bolognaise (Ragu in Italian). We had a lot of trouble finding the hostel and ended up having to get a taxi, lucky we did as the only hostel is 9ks out of the centre! We got up soooo early and left to see the town, although it started pouring so we ran ...