Royal Garden Hotel And Congressi Bologna

... slowly, taking two or more bites per peice. I keep having to remind myself that dragging out a meal is expected here, they are languid over a meal, enjoying three courses, dessert, coffee, time with friends. The absolute clash with how I feel in Canada, the rush, the shove your food into your mouth as quickly as you can because we have somewhere to be feeling. Getting shoved out of a resturaunt in Toronto ...

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>

... the roofs and climbing into the cabin and winching the stranded people down the the ground, it looked pretty scary so im glad it wasnt us.<br><br>We left the alps and made our way to Bologna last night and camped in a free parking place with showers at the servo.<br><br>It wasnt the best night we have had on the trip, first of all we were at the shop and Matt was waiting in line to buy his lollies and had to wait for a ...

... the ball hung up too long and a wave of people, mostly Giants, went up with me and I just ended up batting it down to end the half. At halftime I was feeling good, but we were only up a touchdown and the Warriors were playing much better than anticipated. We discussed adjustments in the locker room, and then Tisma told me if they are playing way off our receivers I need to audible and just throw a quick "automatic" pass. Basically just signal the receiver ...

... t put up with being treated as inferior. There are also nuns everywhere, I've never seen so many in my life. At first I was a bit intimidated but now I've realised they are just normal people that are going about their daily activities. I don't know why I thought they would be much different to anyone else but hey travel is all about revising and letting go of untrue preconceptions. So I'm sure I'll think of more observations but for now they are the most striking for me!

... we understood it luckily and ran to track 10 (on the other side of the station) and got on the train. We managed to find a cabin with a girl our age in it and asked her in Italian if we could sit with her...she had her head phones on so she just nodded. Later in the ride she gets into her purse and pulls out a pack of gum, and yes, she offered us a piece...we were kind of shocked actually! It was nice of her, which we're not used to experiencing from Italian women ...

... on the floor, above the graves of the professors I think. I don't know if you can see from these pictures, but the professor's feet and shoulders are resting on books. Then, another pretty cool story. This piece of marble was worked by an artist and shows a professor surrounded by his students. You can see the difference in style between this piece and others in the museum. It's from the early renaissance period. As I said ...

... 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 ...