Residence Casa Temporanea Bologna

... cabbies, who would not take us, we found a gypsy cab and Mandi bargained him down to a 35 euro ride home. And that's how we ended up blasting along the very roads we had biked earlier, in a random cab just hoping to get home. And we did, he dropped us off right in front of our door.

The next day, we were headed for the Cinque Terre, and I'll tell you more about that in the next.

Jael

... evil to feed the racing budget. Well that explains why the cars cost so much. The technology and the workings going on inside the F1 building can't be expressed. It must be seen. But with the same no photo rule as with the production I can't show you anything. (They actually have you visit the gallery/museum and encourage taking photos before the factory tour begin, whilst secretly taking notes, and then they actually ...

... 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)

... and backpacks! WOW! We are even luxurious travelers next to them. We cooked together (also with the mice and rats) in the huge kitchen of the squat. Every day the people from here recycle food from a market nearby, so there is always loads of free food!

In the night we tried to find a party, but it seemed to be already finished... anyway again a great day... that even ended with a warm shower!!!!!!

... I think he may have been working for their tourism board..).

Anyway, we FINALLY got to the hotel – it was very nice and we felt a lot out of place having pretty much only stayed in backpackers for such a long time! We had a massive king size bed, a great bathroom, a giant plasma.. GREAT!! We decided we weren’t going anywhere because it had been so hard finding the place, so we slept for what was left of the afternoon and watched BBC News at ...

... flatmates are away on vacation so welcomed the company.

Next day he pointed me some of the sights in Bologna (there arenąt many), at the top of one of which I met a Russian named Slava. She had also arrived in town the day before, and completely at loss for how to find an affordable place to stay or even go online, had perchance met the owner of a pizzeria who was Russian, and with whom she crashed. Resolute that poor ...

... other comments get you wondering what people are thinking when they come out here. Granted I do have blog but after initially announcing it to my friends and family, that's about all the audience I want. Multiple times teammates have joked about Manderino's blogged or that I should start one, and I just laugh. It's one thing to report back home, it's another to keep a commentary on the people all around you and the entire league, that they all read. In ...

... been helping me go to the police station and speak with the policemen so I can get the residence permit. The first time we went (this was after only 6 working days), the policeman told us to come back another day and in the meantime gave me his number on a piece of paper and said to call him to go out for a coffee. Needless to say I chucked that in the bin - he appeared to be obsessed with finding an Australian girlfriend (so if anyone's looking give me a hoy! - no ...

... set up and the restaurants from the region cook dishes based on the white truffle. The dogs that find the truffles are there, the truffle spade used to dig them up are displayed.... In other words, the entire process of finding the white truffle and the foodin which the truffles are used are all available in the small square of this tiny, unknown town. What a feast. We saw more white truffles in one day then I seen cumulatively in my lifetime. They are displayed by ...

... also some very tall towers here, one is leaning, really leaning. I am not sure why italy has so many towers...they built them on corsica for communication, was it the same here? Anyway, I had a nice time just strolling around this place, popping into shops and churches whenever I felt like it, even took a nap one afternoon! (maybe I still haven't caught up from that night in the train station..)