La Fenice Agriturismo Bologna

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I went out for drinks with some friends and met a group of American soldiers stationed in Italy. It was a ton of fun.

I cleaned the apartment (much needed) in preparation for my upcoming visitors J

I went to my first football match… Napoli vs. Firenze! Of course a trip to the market was a must to get the appropriate Fiorentina gear. The energy in the stadium made ...

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.

... Pistoria.. Tried to find a shop open to buy beer (not stubbies) as cans are huge…and tissues for runny nose etc… seemed like an easy task but it is a very old town.. Very narrow streets.. A Sunday and nothing open… but we did see a bit of the town… some bits more than once as we went round and round and round… anyway found that there was a shop open in next town Monsummano… got supplies and then tried to find the B& ...

... They said that Italy is not a place, it is an emotion and a feeling. That was powerful because that is what France and now this place has been for us, not places to stop, but places to feel.

So, today, we had to stop at our local expresso cafe. We ordered expresso, and he also gave us a glass of water to drink with it like the locals. Oh yes, that was after we stopped at the local bakery and bought Nouget, milk cookies and danish. Anway, we sat ...

... A very attractive girl was working, and Squale chatted her right up. Sounded like a great conversation. I love how shameless Italian guys are when it comes to hitting on girls. They go right after it. He apologized for taking so long but said he'd only seen her there once before. We headed up to his bachelor pad, a nice little place two bedrooms and a third bed in the common area. He has a punching bag hanging in there too. It's a cool little joint. I ...

... like Etruscan artifacts. The museum begins in Paleolithic times and continues through the Bronze Age. Of course, as is for some reason normal for us, we managed to go through the exhibit in the wrong order. We saw it all, just not in the nice, neat progressive way we were supposed to. The Etruscan portion was quite extensive. The earliest settlements in Bologna dated to the 9th century BC where they flourished until the 4th ...

... sink at the same level as the toilet. I think it is for the ladies to wash private areas in a high tech manner. Sue thinks its a foot wash. The people at the front desk cant seem to explain it to us, or maybe they dont want to. Any advise would be great. Tomorrow morning we are off to Venice. Maybe tomorrow we will have some pictures to send (other than airline food).

... 20,000 was very impressive and Hoges and I explored it for quite some time. Though it now functions as Verona’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.

As it got dark we were walking against the ...

... he stopped in the middle of the way, came to our car and told us that he was having a coffee in the bar - if we wanted to join him he'd offer us one. Since this was not a question, but a statement, we followed him into the bar, had a coffee and then went on to his place, to change the battery. After this event we went shopping in Bologna the whole day...quite exhausting.

June 10, 2002

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!




We were in ...