Hotel Paradise Bologna

... there...more in the fall than the winter...so, securing hotel rooms had always been difficult and expensive.   On this trip I found Hotel Paradise...and let me tell you, it was! It was only about a 10 minute walk from the train station, in the ...

I crack myself up. While starting this entry, I forgot the name of our hotel in Bologna. Hotel Paradise! How could I forget being in paradise?? oy. Anyways, so Bologna was cool. Less touristy than Venice as you can imagine and had the chance to meet some ...

... trip took a bus to Florence and then a train to Bologna.  We checked into the hotel, which was a cute little place called Paradise Hotel.  It wasn't exactly paradise, but it was still a nice place.  I shared a room with three other girls: ...

Ciao! (again, just a reminder, there are more pictures than found in this blog!) The second morning in Bologna was also beautiful although we were going to run out of luck by the end of the day.  Taking advantage again of the weather, we ...

... espacio tan fantástico la atracción por los libros y la lectura aumenta sin remedio. - Un destacado también para nuestro hotel, Hotel Paradise, en Vicolo Catani esquina con Via Bertiera. A sólo cinco minutos de la Piazza Maggiore. Además de su trato ...

... the sillyness of it all. We arrived in Bolognia..and nobody spoke English! What an immersive cultural experience..luckily we had planned a hotel and means to get there...aerobus.  After a cozy bus ride with probably 45 people on board, we missed our ...

... you Ranga's would love the 40km of porticoed pavements in the city, keeping your pale skins out of the searing sun. It is a ranga paradise. Unless you have the double curse of being a ranga and a vegetarian - then you are stuffed like a pig's ...

... to Florence today which is only an hour away and hopefully we can get a room at the same place as last time. I walked around bologna yesterday checking it out, it doesn't have any main attractions like David but it makes up for it in liveliness (I should ...

... arrived in Bologna after a 40-minute ride from Florence.  Due to a mix up, we discovered we didn't have hotel reservations in Bologna,  and the town was totally full with a convention.  Fortunately, the people who run the cooking school ...

... but to this saaaame Villa Costanzo, where Steinbeck had once stayed, and had written of finding his own little slice of paradise..  we concur!  Monday 7th July Alison: Our last full day in Positano, we went off to the Adolfo restaurant ...

... (they must have heard that we were coming!). We did get pictures, standing in front of the"Gate to Paradise", heavenly (?) gilded bronze doors of the Baptistry which was originally a Pagan Temple and then walked down to the open air Gallery ...

... out in shirtsleeves on a warm afternoon, they were amazed. There are flowers in January in public gardens--mainly birds of paradise and cyclamen--beautiful beds of them in parks especially and in flower boxes. There are also palm trees blooming, perhaps ...

... the natural cycle of life. Sometime we just have to say goodbye. So in a few hours I will leave this little piece of paradise for awhile. I'm going to Athens tonight, then fly first thing in the morning to Rome. I'll be spending a few days there before ...

... It is the largest room in Europe not supported by interior columns and also contains the largest oil painting in the world, Tintoretto's Paradise. That capped off the sightseeing for the day pretty much. We had a bit more of a wander around, and ...