Novotel Bologna Hotel

... Harry Potter, and Italy, and Teaching, Travelling, music, movies. Home and Away. <br>Refresing girls and wonderful souls!<br>I have been so luck on this trip to have met so many wonderful people. People I hope to call friends for years to come!<br><br>Today I am in Ancona and arrived at my hostel to find that even though I e-mailed ahead of time to ask if I could arrive during their closed office hours, it seems ...

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.

... the language. Gherardo was a willing wealth of knowledge, and taught me that if a man in Italy is wearing a bespoke suit, he unbuttons the last button on the cuff of his suit, to signify this. I started looking for it and saw it all over the place. <br><br>After dinner we rushed to catch our train back to the hotel, but we missed it. It was close to midnight, and no more trains. After haggling with ...

... 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>

hey family and friends. im in Greece now and it is amazing. i wanted to catch yall up on the travels that i have made after i left Italy.<br><br>early on Saturday morning we all woke up and caught a train to Bologna, Italy to get on an airplane to Rome connecting then to Athens, Greece. Sarah, Margaret, and i all were so tired from Friday night because we didnt get into bed until four thirty because we were saying goodbye to our roommates and friends who were ...

... But for 1.40 I wasn't too mad. I chased it with my first gelato in Italy, and it was amazing. I could have eaten so much more. I got two flavors, but of course I didn't really know what I was getting. The first turned out to be chocolate with some mild coffee influence and the second was Nuttella flavored gelato (I could understand that sign). Italian's love their Nuttella I've noticed a few stores and café's with 5 kilo jugs of the stuff. A 5 kilo ...

... COVERED in graffiti, but the little shops are beautifully decorated. I think the city has given up on the graffiti, and consequently, even though there is a lot, the beauty of the storefronts and the porticoes overwhelms the graffiti. Also, while there is spray paint on the walls, there seems to rarely be any real vandalism, and the streets have much less litter than Florence. That's enough for now...tune in soon for Bologna part due!

... Terni, but once we knew that, we could look on the departing board for the Terni train and see all the stops. I think I mentioned before that direct only means you don't have to change trains, not that it is direct to your destination without any stops. As we waited, A. took us to the "sala da aspetto"(waiting room) to show us the memorial of the 1980 bombing of the train station there in Bologna. The memorial listed all those who lost their ...

... 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 ...

Since the quarter finals all the games of the football world championships were shown on a big screen on Piazza Maggiore. So we saw this game of Italy against Germany on this big square: I went there with a German friend and two Austrians with our Italian ...