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Published: September 28th 2006
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Bologna Fountain
Where we had lunch We woke up and had ham and cheese rolls for breakfast, boy did we eat a lot of ham and cheese rolls, in fact we had them for breakfast, lunch and tea that day. We caught a bus into town, and walked around the town, before finally finding a spot of grass for lunch. It is amazing in those cities how you can go miles and miles without seeing anything remotely green.
It was with hesitation that I agreed to walk up the Asinelli tower, which is just under 100 metres high, especially because the Garisenda tower next to it is on a massive lean, it was built in 1109, and I am crap with heights. Anyway we did it, my feet were sweating as we got higher and I had to take my jandals off. It was weird though once we got to the top and were leaning right over the edge, I was fine, and we sat up here for about an hour, just looking over the city. I could have stayed for hours more, as it was such a nice day and the view was brilliant. When we did come down, we went to a church which
had some magnificent sculptures, we were looking around, when some lady, who obviously thought we were really religious, took us to a separate piece of the church where no one else was, she was speaking Italian at us really fast so I have no idea what she was trying to tell us.
After all this sightseeing we decided to chill out in the piazza (square) and it was mind blowing, never have I seen so many pretty girls in one place, most of them were bicycling on old bikes. Not like NZ where they would have helmets, and their track-pants tucked into their socks. They have skirts and their hair is flowing in the wind. (Callum, stop it you'll go blind). So after steering, I mean sitting for an hour or so we headed back to the hostel.
We found a nearby supermarket and stocked up on some food and beers and ate outside until heading back to our room. We were in a room with a French guy and a Tunisian guy. The Tunisian was trying to tell us he was there to get his bowels cleaned out or something. So I was a bit gutted when
Don't look down
This shows how wonky the shorter tower is I drew the short straw and had to sleep on the bunk above him. It was fine, except all the hostels in Italy seem to think no-one is over 5 foot tall so their bunks are ridiculously small. All in all a good day, I would definitely recommend Bologna to anyone traveling to Italy.
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