Tortufa

Trip Start Sep 23, 2008
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Trip End Dec 11, 2008


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Phil's House
(Riccione hotels)

Flag of Italy  , Emilia-Romagna,
Sunday, October 12, 2008

Sadly, I no longer have free internet connection, so from now on entries will only appear when I have some extra time and euros. I spent a couple of days in Bologna, which was a nice city. I was hosted by Tamara, and spent much of the time either waltzing through the streets of Bologna, or playing with Tamara's baby kittens.

Bologna was an interesting city. I climbed the tallest tower in the city, a total of 498 steps, which gave a wonderful panoramic view of this city who's streets are laid out like a spider web. On the first morning of my stay I wandered into the Piazza del Nettuno, to see the famous Fountain of Neptune, and there were student protests going on. I'm not exactly sure what the issue was, but it had something to do with recent changes that the government was making to the education system.

While in Bologna I went to two museums, the Civic Museum of Archeology and the Civic Museum of Medieval History. The Medieval history one was ten times better, it was much more organized and easy to travel from exhibit to exhibit. In the archeology museum I couldn't tell which way to go, there didn't seem to be any sort of specified path, yet the exhibits were divided up into different time periods (and I like to go chronologically).

After Bologna, I went to a small town called Riccione, which is the sister-town to Rimini, the Cancun of Italy. Fortunately, it was the off-season, when the population drops down to its normal 20,000 (in the summer it swells to 250,000). In Riccione, I stayed with Phil and Sara, a really really nice couple. Phil has been all over the world, and was a very nice and laid back guy.

We went to San Marino, which is another super touristy area, filled with over-priced food and shopping ventures. It was up on this huge hill, and there was an awesome view of the Italian landscape.

After San Marino, we went to a truffle festival! (the fungus, not the dessert). It's one of the most expensive foods, and at the festival you could get free samples of truffle spreads, truffle cheese, and truffle salami. They were absolutely delicious. We had a lot of fun chatting and getting to know eachother.

Unfortunately, I only stayed with them one night, because I had a train to catch to my next destination. Florence!
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safar02
safar02 on Oct 18, 2008 at 12:24AM

It's a wonderful Life!
Hi again, It's been almost a week since you've written. I hope all is well. Where are you waltzing through the streets these days? Thinking about you. Aunt Sue

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