Una Hotel Bologna
Via Pietramellara 41/43 Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, 40121, Italy
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Day 16
... onto the little church and it is beautiful. The Marian devotion is amazing - they have at least 5 masses daily and from what we saw, there were about 40 people - old young, men, women - on a Monday morning at 10. There is a lovely statue of our Lady behind the altar with a little walkway so that you can pray close to Her - there is also a very shiny disc with a raised image on it that people are constantly touching as they make their requests of our Lady - if ...
Bologna, Italy
... metropolitan city) of about 1,000,000 inhabitants. The urban sprawl of Bologna, including nearby Modena, whose metropolises are adjoining, is continuously expanding.
The city, the first settlements of which date back to at least one millennium before Christ, has always been an important urban center, first under the Etruscans (Velzna/Felsina) and the Celts (Bona), then under the Romans (Bononia), then again in the Middle Ages, as a free municipality (for one century it was ...
Marroni in Monterenzio
... that have left its leaves riddled with tiny holes, mostly unfit for sale. In another area of their main vegetable field, there are so many tomatoes on the vines that most rot on the ground and half of the harvested crop is still too much for their needs. Later, an hour is spent cutting good bits out of apples half gone bad. The bees that produce a delicate, floral-tasting honey are winding down for the winter, and the sheep have begun to finish their ...
Bologna (Rosso?)
... this sea of bodies with our €2.50 take-away pizzas, we cracked open a bottle of Domaine Carret wine, thrust insistently into our hands by Vincent the previous evening, and watched the film Airplane on the laptop. This confluence of cultures – amidst a background hum of Eastern European coach tourists seeking out their rooms and high-tech manufacturing firms based just outside our window – is perhaps not such a strange mix after all. The city they ...
Bloody RyanAir
... 11:45pm and went looking for a B&B I found online at the airport. I eventually found it but no one answered the buzzer. I debated just crashing in the train station since it was so late already but got an ok rate from a hotel right across from the train station. At least I was able to get myself cleaned up and a decent sleep (I felt very exhausted by this point). And the hotel had wi-fi so I was able to FaceTime with Marina.
But I hate RyanAir!!!! :)
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