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Italy 49 - Suzy gets mosaiced out at Ravenna
Published: May 18th 2013Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Ravenna
May 18th 2013
Another day and they are being ticked off now as we start the countdown to going home. More of our holiday has gone than is left. Suzy spent the night in a fairly quiet site once the noisy Italians had gone to bed. They do have fun these Italians. The morning started off badly with the heavy rain beating on Suzys roof. It felt cold too and the young girl serving in the shop said that it felt more like Autumn than Summer and she hoped for better next month. It was muggy and the temperature around 20 - a temperature we would be grateful for back home. But here they felt it far too cold. I had wondered if they suffered much from climate change here - was it getting like back home where we ... read more
Italy 50 - a bit of a sad event and museum
Published: May 18th 2013Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Coriano
May 18th 2013
We left our camping site early and hit the road as we headed off to the tiny town of Coriano the birthplace of the MotoGP rider Marco Simoncelli who was killed at the Grand Prix of Malaysia in 2011. We had followed Marco for some years and it looked as if he was going to be the hope for the future as the Doctor Valentino Rossi was coming to the end of his MotoGP career. The accident had left a hole in GP and we had always promised that we would go if we had chance and were in his part of the world to pay homage to him at his place of burial. Corriano is a small town and we drove around with only one idea of finding the church and the cemetery. The church ... read more
Italy 47 - Miles and miles of arcades - that's Bologna
Published: May 17th 2013Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Bologna
May 17th 2013
Suzy was on the road again and this time heading for the second time to Camping Hotel Citta di Bologna. Readers of the blog will realise that this time last year we had tried this campsite with a view to catching the bus into Bologna. We failed mainly because the campsite was noisy, we got little sleep and didn’t fancy another night so we moved on. Well we arrived again and it felt like deja vu. The same camp site the same guy was in reception. He said we could park in any plot we liked as the site was empty. Good start we thought. Last year there had been a lot of rain and the plots were waterlogged. This year they were dry and we had the pick of most of them. There were a ... read more
Italy 48 - a castle and a Mr Le Clerc superstore
Published: May 18th 2013Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Forli
May 17th 2013
Suzy had her headlights and back windows cleaned today before we headed off for Forli . We had laughed yesterday as we saw a Thai lady standing at the traffic lights waiting for cars to stop. As they stopped three deep she ran to first car washed the headlights and asked for the money. This process was repeated at the second car and at the third before she moved to the second row and started again . As the light changed she took her life in her hands and raced back to the pavement waiting for the lights to turn red again . What a way to earn a living. As we set off from the campground we noticed the other way to earn a living - the ladies of the night. Only this was broad ... read more
Cheap Food and Fast Cars in Bologna
Published: June 6th 2013Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Bologna
May 6th 2013
Greg: We entered Bologna not knowing a whole lot about its history, other than it was the home of Spag' Bol' and it had claimed the oldest university in the world. We also didn't have accommodation sorted upon entering the city, but thankfully after a walk round the Bologna train station we located some free wireless and had an email come through confirming we had a bed for the night via AirBnB. We marched down the streets and checked in with our hosts, got a dinner recommendation and went out to explore for the night. We learnt that Bologna is a huge student town, and upon taking up the dinner recommendation for my birthday night we had one of the best meals to date (as of 6 June anyway) while remaining super cheap - off to ... read more
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Back to the East coast again and Rivabella,Rimini
Published: April 28th 2013Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Rimini
April 26th 2013
A third sombre breakfast at Bagni di Lucca couldn't be avoided and we think we shall make a comment on Trip Advisor suggesting that the hotel owner installs a system that allows music at least to be played at breakfast time to give some atmosphere for their guests.Had we been able to converse in Italian or German we could of course have small talk with the others that were at breakfast when we were but with our limited knowledge of those languages it would have been hard going. We are heading back to the East coast of Italy today to stay a couple of nights at Rimini so that we can visit the Republic of San Marino,an oddity amongst the countries of the world.More about that tomorrow when we take a couple of hours to visit ... read more
Evening Rave with Papa Francesco, Camping in Rome, Perusing Perugia and other cool adventures
Published: April 6th 2013Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Rimini
April 6th 2013
(wrote this yesterday, but just got the Internet working!) Buenjourno! What a week it's been. Last I wrote I was in Florence taking an easy day as I was not quiet feeling 100%. I can happily report I got over whatever that was quickly and so enough of that! The day after the last blog post I hopped on a train heading to Rome to go and see Papa Francesco for Easter weekend. Upon arriving in Rome, I met up with some fellow travelers from the previous hostel that just so happened to be staying at the same hostel in Rome. And clarify what I mean by "hostel" I mean campground outside of Rome. This is the result of being cheap and booking late for Easter weekend. (more on this later) First day in Rome was ... read more
