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Bologna
... with them... but a good one most of the time.
When we got to Bologna of course Zuzia could not park the car but Miguel just woke up from sleeping and did it. Yes we totally fulfill those stereotypes.
Sadly we missed the christmas-market, but we kept telling us it would not have been good anyway.
We also saw Gregory, the pope that invented our calender of today, very ...
Bologna
... nobody ever came to check the tickets so we were fine out in the aisle. We got out and started heading for the hotel (the walk leading us through all the sites). We saw pizza nettune (Neptune square) and then saw Santa Maria Delle Sanita. That was really pretty:) We dropped our bags off at the hotel (we have a balcony too which we discovered) and went to eat lunch. We asked a nice construction guy where the pizza San domenico was so we could eat in their pretty court yard. I fed ...
E.V.O.O. The nectar of the Gods.
... tell right away by the smell that it was going to taste.... different. It smelled like fresh cut grass. And how did it taste? You guessed it! Just like grass. Not my cup of tea- or should I say oil. What's funny is that they also gave us an oil to try that was considered "defective" by their standards. Guess what... that's the kind of olive oil we are so accustomed to tasting in the good 'ol U.S. ...
Amazing Race to Bologna
... and playing along with a keyboard. At one point in the evening, he opened the mic up to the diners. I seized this opportunity with the encouragement of Sami, Justin and Ann. I sang one of the only American songs that the DJ knew...Dancing Queen by ABBA. After dinner we went to a questionable (communist?) bar and drank way too much grappa, it was at this time that Justin and Ann decided that they would take a train down to Rome and join us on our Italian ...
Day Three - Bologna
... it was in the sale so I felt compelled to take a closer look and five minutes later I walked out with my bargain handbag - a lovely, and useful, souvenir!
We rejoined the group and made our way back to the waiting coach, where we drove into the Tuscany region and our hotel for the night, in Montecatini Terme. We arrived late afternoon, so there was time for us to walk down to the town before dinner to enjoy a glass of red and some nibbles. Then ...