Panorama Hotel Bologna

... I am encouraged that I will soon be arriving with family. I can put my travel miles card away, put my feet up and have a proper vacation. Because as I've been saying to some people. This is not a vacation, it's Hard Work! <br><br>I arrived in Ferrara at 5:30ish on Monday evening, It was already starting to darken, the skies saying goodnight for a while. I found my hostel with only asking one person for ...

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.

... an hour. No one follows these limits. I know because Mandi and I found ourselves on such a road, on singlespeed step through bikes, getting passed by Porsches, Minis, and giant semi trucks headed north at 100 km an hour. At first we thought it would get better. Then we resigned ourselves to our fate. We were going to do this, no matter how crazy it was. And that's how we ended up biking nearly ...

... a small piece of the "finest chocolate in italy" and waited to board. it was great chocolate and added a great flare to the long trip ahead. we boarded at 705 and landed at 740pm. it was the shortest flight ever and the workers on it were really nice. i got two cups of water and it was so clean and sarah and i got a row of seats to ourselves because it was not full. <br><br>we had a two hour layover in Rome so we shopped around to kill time. i ate the rest of my ...

... that I was just on my way home. I contemplated seeing if they'd drive me home for ten euro or so, but then decided that if they were capable drivers they probably would be cabbies and not hookers. I kept walking and after 35 minutes or so saw the Orange walls of the disco sexy. It wasn't bumping techno music to guide me home, so I felt a little like someone didn't leave the light on for me, but at least I had made it home after walking across Bolzano from 1-2am.

... year. They have been living and working in Bologna for the last 4 months and I want to catch up with them before they leave for home, and they invite me to a farewell party given for them by a friend, so next morning I catch the train to Bologna. Karen's sister, Laura, is also visiting and Karen takes us for a walk around Bologna, the highlight being the Church of Santa Maria della Vita (St Mary of Life), where there is a fantastic set of terracotta sculptures called "the Mourning of the ...

... some of the walls on the inside are orignal from who knows when and their ceiling which had been restored is spectacular! And did I take pictures.....NO! We had a lunch which consisted of pineapple chicken, fennel and cheese salad, grilled eggplant, black risotto, endive &amp; onion salad as usual it was "buonissimo"! We ...

... 20,000 was very impressive and Hoges and I explored it for quite some time. Though it now functions as Verona&#8217;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. <br><br>As it got dark we were walking against the ...

... for dinner. It&#8217;s a beautiful spa town and smells good! I took a long walk through the park and had a Gran Marnier on the patio. Peggy had Amaretto which pleased the bartender/host. He didn&#8217;t like my ordering a French liqueur! The hotel was one of the nicest on our tour. <br><br>We left our window open and it was actually cold when we got up!