Jolly Villanova Bologna

... there is a line up at the door. This culture is so different, and takes some getting used to I think. <br><br>Wednesday I woke up able to breathe a little better, and I had made some friends at Breakfast. Tessa, Raachel and Lissie who had all met in Florence doing a teaching course. We all sharted sharing out stories and decided to walk around together, it was nice to have company again. We chatted about Twilight ...

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.

... journey. We promptly got lost, so we caught a train for a couple of stops to a one horse town with only one road north so we knew we wouldn't get lost. Okay, no problem. But little did we know that there are no back roads in Bologna. No bikepaths. No sidewalks. No shoulders. <br><br>The way they get around in Italy is long two lane highways punctuated by roundabouts, with speed limits of 70 ...

... there was a free breakfast buffet which we took full advantage of. We didnt really do much in the actual city of Bologna. We more or less used it as a base to get to other places for day trips, returning to the city to eat and sleep. The food was great; we had our first pizza in Italy and it was tasty.... its fun knowing that things like pizza are only going to get better when we get closer to its point of origin (Napoli)<br>

Day started with call from lovely Australian couple. Mariella's mom , who is 81, was at a ski slope in Torino. She had a stroke, so Mariella, who owns this gorgeous place, rushed onto an airplane home from Australia. She was with her second husband and son since her son is about to start two years of university in Sydney. They were in midst of buying him a car and the contents for his flat. Then, they would holiday there...<br><br>Anyway, she will arrive ...

... the more disorganized IFL. Basically he thought maybe players thrived in a well designed system that maximized individuals, and without that they aren't able to translate their success in Italian. We talked about that for a while before finding Now That's What I call Music Volume 26 in Alessandra's (the DL who hawked me and who now was driving Pasquale and I to Bologna) glove box and bumping Soulja Boy and other American classics, I took a nap. We were picked ...

... of Bologna took place after the weather turned unfortunately frigid (Una had warned us that winter was supposed to return!). We visited the Archiginnasio and the Museo Civico Archeologico. Palazzo Archiginnasio was the seat of the University from the 16th century. Although most of the collections have been moved to Palazzo Poggi (where the University was transferred and another cool place we visited), the Anatomy Theater is ...

... stuff, and we even have a picture of the food (Sue took that - not me). We went through the airport in Bolognia without going through customs, so I hope we can get out of the country with out any problems. On our way to the hotel, we passed the golden arches of Bolognia. Really was not all that impressive. We have the same thing two blocks from our house in ...

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... event in Piazza Maggiore: first there was an orchestra playing some music. Later on they started a theatre play about the story of Bologna, in which also my flatmate took part. In between and in the end there was a big firework, illuminating the city.