Regina Bologna

... decided to not be present for my arrival. I have found an internet cafe and decided to write. I also was able to post a few more pictures but on Facebook so I'll send you links and hope they work!

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Love to all!
Benita

... from rocking out of tight situations.

Ferrara Highlights
9200 meters of city walls commissioned by Duke Ercole d'Este and built between 1493 and 1505 with walking paths on top.

Castello Estense de Ferrara--a defensive structure from the early middle ages that dominates the old city surrounded by moat. The Castello Estense was menacing from the outside and lavishly decorated on the inside. You could feel the history and understand the ...

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.

BOLOGNA



After reading a bit about Bologna in travel books etc, we had a bit of an impression of what to expect, but still didn't really know what it was going to be like. I think if you were going to spend one or two days here, you'd maybe be a little disappointed. But, thankfully we had 6 days based in Bologna, so there was plenty of time to enjoy this amazing town. We did get slightly lost after arriving at the train station, but we ...

... and missed our train (the cheap one) to Florence. We ended up with last-minute tickets aboard the most expensive (10 Euros more, total, so not a complete disaster) train to Firenze. The train was full and we didn't pay for seat reservations, so we annoyed everyone by standing in the aisle, battering other riders to death with our oversized backpacks. We rate the Italian rail booking system as the worst design we have ever experienced. - In Taiwan, the UK (I ...

... and having free food on friday and saturday evenings...from 6-9pm...u get to try different food and as much as u want with just the cost of one drink...great!!! we should do smth like that in estonia...it would rock!! after i had filled my stomach with snack i headed back to the hostel..and found the guy i had met on the street earlier...Dave form Denver, Colorado...touring around the respected wine countries as he was studying wines back in Denver. He ...

... you for the NEXT meal! While we were having our snack in the piazza some friends stopped by and they were explaining to them who we were and that I was Lorenzo's american mother! la mamma americana is how they referred to me! So off to home we go where they prepare another meal! Mind you they ...

... of day-trippers pouring out of the streets away from Piazza delle Erbe, and we somehow missed Verona’s most famous tourist spot, Juliet’s mythical balcony from that Shakespeare play, in the small amount of time we had to meander the streets. But we had to press on because dinner was waiting.

Heading westwards to Brescia and then making for Iseo (a town on a lake of the same name) without any real idea of where we were going, we were hampered ...

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 ...