So I realize the majority of my blogs usually have food as the highlight, so I'm taking the occasion to have one entire entry dedicated to an amazing meal that I had this past weekend. All along the Emilia-Romagna coast this past weekend was "La Notte Rosa" or the "Pink Night" which just basically means everything stays open late and there are concerts and other types of activities to keep people up all night long. It is a play on words, as in Italian... a night in white means to Well Fabio and I decided to go, and meet up with friends down there. Well at the last minute (and we were already down in Ravenna), our friends call us and tell us they decided to go to the Lidi Ferrarese, which is the Galveston of ... read more

So today was pretty much just a site-seeing day where we spent the entire morning at the Vatican... climbing all the way up to the top, and such. Afterwhich we searched for some lunch, in the meantime seeing the Sant'Angelo Castle, the Angel Bridge, Piazza Navona and the Pantheon. We grabbed some sandwiches and decided to keep on walking and we ended up seeing the Teatro Massimo. We headed back to the hotel to rest up some... and made it back out later to see the Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps, and some nighttime views of the Vittoriano and the Teatro Massimo. We had some pizza for dinner, followed by the necessary gelato, and called it a night! ... read more

We hop on the train to get to Assisi early in the morning, to have one of the funniest moments of my life. We walked into a shop to purchase some souvenirs to find some good finds! We make our choices, and we make our way to the cash register... all the while surrounded by religious articles in the middle of a city known for its strong connection to the Catholic faith. We are then met by a spry older lady who very carefully and meticulously (and may I say slowly) wrapped up everything for us... but with a very dry sarcastic attitude in every word we exchanged. She makes her way to a back room to find a box for the statue we had purchased, and she is less than satisfied that it wasn't the ... read more

After waking up, shuttling a luggage over to Fabio's place on the back of my bike (mind you tied on with the strap from Dad's bag), and having some breakfast, we finally set out on foot in Ferrara. We start on our way to Piazza Ariostea, but we end up meeting up with our dear Fulvio, who is studying tourism -- the perfect tour guide! We decided to change plans and we walked to the oldest street in Ferrara, Via delle Volte. After a little bit more site seeing around town, to name one the Duomo/Cathedral, we go to "Brindisi" bar, which Fulvio informs us just so happens to be the oldest enoteca in Europe, which was established in 1435. I don't know how many times I had passed by this bar (as it is on ... read more

After sleeping in rather late, Iza and I finally dragged ourselves out of bed to get some breakfast... we dined on donuts (which really aren't donuts but I don't know the Polish name to them!) and the zapiekanki... it was delish! After getting some fuel we decided to go shopping, of course rounding out the remainder of the morning with some more iced coffee. After walking around the University, we made our way into Old Town, where we walked around until we decided to climb up the tower to get an aerial view of the center of Warsaw. In the middle of the square there was the Unesco Bears exhibition of all the countries around the world... so Iza and I decided to takes pictures with every bear in which whose country we had been in. ... read more