Hotel University Bologna

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.

... 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 ...

... at one of the local clubs. If<br>Italian men on the street are bed, Italian men in Italian clubs are a<br>hundred times worse: greasy to the extreme. Italian guys just stood<br>behind our group of girls -Peter was busy dancing- and intermitantly<br>would tried to and touch us or grab our wrists. Affter four hours I<br>walked home with Peter´s stunningly gorgeous Russian roomate. By<br>gorgeous, I mean one of the most attractive girls I have ever met in my<br>life ...

... we had Bolognese sauce. After lunch, we wandered around a bit more, viewing the two remaining Mideval towers of Bologna--both leaning, just not as much as the one in Pisa. We visited the city's free art collection in the town hall, and went inside the 5th largest cathedral in Europe. It was really dark inside. Though the size was impressive, I think that perhaps the Italians realized too late that, if you're going to build a giant church, you're going to have ...

... they have a tourist information office in almost every city, town and even some of the villages) asked for the hostel and if they could call and ask about the vacancies as it was friday..and it was the only hostel in town it might have been full...anyway they didnt do that but directed me to the main office where they have reservation desk also..so i started my walk towards the main square..i had absolutely no expectations about this city as i didnt even ...

Eccoci! Finally here we are! We have now had a good nights sleep as we did not get into bed until 4:00am. We got up about 11:00am! I finally met Lorenzo's mom, Nazzarena or Nena for short. They had a wonderful breakfast ready for us. It was great the food was wonderful, but the company better. We ...

... introduction in a presentation room was the component processing area. Here in a very new and spacious building the employees were producing crank shafts, cylinder heads and cylinder blocks, with the factory floor also home to a dazzling collection of classic Ferrari models from various eras &#8211; intended to be an inspiration to the workers of the finished masterpieces they are each playing a part in creating. <br><br>After then passing through the paint ...

... at this point. I read for a bit and then tried to sleep. The girl I shared a room with kept waking up and smoking or talking on the phone, it was terrible. I hardly slept. I was all ready to be disappointed in the morning. Then I found out that it was a local holiday so the museum I wanted to see the most would be closed. Fun. Still determined to get something out of this I made my way to Corpus Dominio Chiesa Della Santa Bacillica and the mummy of St ...

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 ...