Touring Bologna

... easy and not force myself to run up and down mountains! It's okay to take a day off I beleive. In acknowledgement of my cold, I decided I should have a proper meal at a proper table, and just enjoy some good food!
I ordered what is considered a pasta that is chacter to Ferrara. and It was breaktakingly sumptous! A type of ravioli with Pumpkin inside drizzled all over with a butter and sage sauce. I ate these ...

... 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.

... to forgive my moments hesitation and allow a new plan to formulate. I stuck my left foot into the ground and leapt off it, scooping the ball with my right foot and pulling my knee to my chest, effectively flipping the ball up and over the goalie while simultaneously hurdling him. I landed off balance, tucked and rolled while the ball floated across the goal line and short hopped the back of the net. I got up laughing to the amazed applause of several of my ...

... Port of Genoa, drove to a small hotel near the Malpensa Airport and headed home from Milano on February 20th. Our time in Italy has been a magical experience- we have achieved our goals beyond expectation and have shared an array of unforgettable experiences. Our thanks go to so many people who helped us along the way- Joe Perrone, Rachel and Matteo, my parents, Marie Becker, Paola, Titti, Marina, Massimo, Tea and Marco. Without our family and friends to encourage and support us ...

... Mass. Then after checking into our room we went to the Pinocoteca Nazionale. Good Baroque (Caracci's especially) and Rennaissance (including a Rafael and a Tintoretto) art plus 13 and 14th century art, including a Giotto. Then we wandered arounf Bologna to chapel of St Cecilia, San Stefano Church and finally exhausted back to the hotel. Even though I had a delicious gelato from Gianni Gelateria we will be going to dinner shortly..

... the IR train (milan - turin) was so noisy!
There were nice gentlemen who helped put our luggage in the overhead shelves.
I called Lorenzo on the first train to Milano, coz I didn't receive his txt
messages. Anyway, we made it there. Lorenzo came picked us up at
Torino Porta Susa station and we took showers in his apartment. His
apartment looked quite different.

... 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 ...

... us! It was a little difficult finding where the Galleria was, but we finally got there around noon and we were very impressed. Adam says there had got to be tens of millions of dollars worth of cars in there (I don't believe him) so he was pretty impressed. For all of you out there who don't know how much Adam likes Formula 1 racing...well imagine a child diagnosed with ...

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 ...