Unaway Hotel Bologna Fiera

... 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

... seaters. Dawn counted 50 in all. These are as new as 2007, as the 2008's have not been released to the public yet. some privately owned and some for sale. Minimum price for one of these retired F1 machines, 1 Million Euro. Ok...

This was truly a dream come true for me and I want to thank Dawn for letting me experience something like this in the middle of our honeymoon.

... desk clerk our passports and she looks for the reservation and takes a while to find us in the system. And she tells us our room is Monet. So now I'm really curious about what this room is like. We get in and the place is huge, especially by Italian standards, king bed (actually 2 twins pushed together... not really that comfy but who can complain), satellite tv with English programs, a fridge, a thing to make your pants ...

... served us a nice breakfast with coffee! It was too good to be true... All day we walked around in Venezia, as we could leave our bikes and bags safely at the house. It was such a relaxed day.. We transformed into true tourists and walked in all areas of the town making loads of pictures. It's such a relief to be in a city where there is no cars (and not even bikes...), so quiet and everything is more relaxed. Although certain ...

... find it. We had been told to get the number 20 bus, and double checked with the driver before getting on – he didn't know but said he would ask.. after driving around for a while he yelled out through the crowded bus that this was us, but we were still in the city centre and couldn’t see a hotel anywhere. Standing in the middle of Bologna, very tired and not in the mood for getting lost, we wandered around and found the main tourist office. Turned out we ...

As they'd say in Norfolk: now, Bologna, there’s a thing. By the time we arrived we only had a few hours in the city, but I loved every moment. Think of it as an unspoilt, miniature version of Florence: it had the beautiful Duomo, the Gelataria on every street corner, the Roman statues (check the photo of Neptune and I), a picturesque town square. OK, none of the above might be quite as grand as Florence, and certainly not as famous (or should that be notorious ...

... to find a receiver and ran left. There was a defensive end or linebacker sitting outside off me, and though he was in decent position I knew if I wanted yards I had to try and out run him to the sideline. I gave him a hesitation move then took of for the left sideline. I turned the corner, but he got a hand on my jersey and jerked me away from the sideline and back toward the middle of the field. Three other defenders had converged but this sudden change of ...

... hahaha....it is all starting to wear on me a bit....so finally i buck up and i notice just down the way a 93...ha, there's the dang stop right there and they didn't know????? argh.....so i go and wait and wait and wait....finally get the bus, thankfully a nice man at the stop figured out i was looking for ostello and in Italian said something and basically motioned me to get on the bus. i asked the driver and he said si....ok...so going and going and going and i am ...

... how long it took to get there and she said 45 minutes. So we had an hour and a half to get there before our flight. Super. We hail a taxi, he's an older gentleman, very nice, grandfather-looking man. He tells us the trip will cost us 118 euro...SUPER. But we have no other choice. So we have to go...he managed to get us there in a half hour and reassured us the whole time "Va bene"...it's okay. So of course I have him a hug, especially after he only charged us 110 ...

... had to be covered with stone centuries ago because it was already falling apart. We only saw two tiny pieces of the remains of those mosaics. There were also braces on some of the columns to make sure they were stable. There were also several courtyards between the churches, which I did take pictures of. ] Aren't they pretty? Our last stop on the tour was to see one of the canals that runs through Bologna. The city wasn't built ...