Day 16 to 19, July 22 -25, Bologna, Venice, Florence, Rome Our hectic pace in Italy leaves us little time for blogging. We'll try make up for it by posting mote photos of each city. Day 16 - Day train trip Bologna-Venice-Bologna The visit to Venice was fantastic !I'll write this up in detail later. The express train Bologna-Venice takes about 1hour , 40 mins. so we had about 6 hours of sightseeing in Venice. We got back to out hotel in Bologna at about 8:30pm, exhausted from the 35C heat. Day 17 Drive from Bologna-Florence, stay in Florence 3 nights. We were quite happy with our Starhotels Excelisior in Bologna. Prices were comparible to Canada for the 4 star service we received. Up to Bologna, we had spent a lot of time on the Internet
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