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Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Bologna April 24th 2008

Prague Over the Easter break Bronny and I headed to Prague to meet up with Wisey for a week. Unfortunately the cold weather (it snowed almost every day) and the hearty Czech cuisine didn’t agree with Wisey and Bron, so the first few days were a bit slow. Eventually, feeling like a hyperactive child, I was able to bully them out of bed and we escaped the confines of our hostel with its creepy reception man, and burst out into the beautiful, magical, fairytale city that is Prague. We visited the two palaces, saw Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the marionette theatre, watched the very over-rated clock tower strike the hour, visited the Jewish quarter, and basically just walked around enjoying the gorgeous sights, frequently ducking into cafes and pubs to escape the freezing weather. We met ... read more
Wisey, Bron and Me in Praha
Bronny and Wisey
The interesting architecture of Prague...

Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Bologna April 4th 2008

Italy!! Day 18 (if you say it quickly it just pops out without blinking an eyelid) We have arrived in our second country. AND THEY HAVE A QWERTY KEYBOARD!!!!!! The last night in Salon was again lovely. We discovered this beautiful Morrocan restaurant, I was over the moon about the vegetables so you know it must have been good, We had Morrocan rosé which was like Rosé light. it was more sé than rose, Still it went down well. Then it was up early to begin our adventure in Italy, We said farewell to Clare (our GPS voice and family in joke) at the border and we were on our own, before we left though we were treated to soem of the most stunning scenery either of us have ever seen. You can understand why the ... read more

Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Bologna March 23rd 2008

BUONA PASQUA A VOI! I’m very sorry I have not updated my blog sooner, my mom just told me she sent this link out to a lot people, and I’m not keeping up with my duties. Soo here it is. One huge blog post about my travels in Italy thus far. So since I last posted, a lot has happened. I had spring break, and I traveled to Bologna, Venice, and Florence with my good friend April. My mom and my aunt Cheryl came two days after my spring break, and today is Easter. I’ll start with Spring break. April is one of my good friends that I went to Carmel with, and she is currently studying abroad in Madrid, Spain. Her and her 3 friends Lauren, Jess, and Brady arrive in Rome on Friday night. ... read more
Bologna
Bologna
Bologna

Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Bologna March 16th 2008

Laura the Liar Italy is turning me into a liar. When I meet people I tell them that I am here to “study”. This is clearly not true as I attend uni for two hours on Mondays and Tuesdays, do not understand a word, frequently leave early, and even more frequently don’t even show up due to “commitments” in Milan, Florence, the Alps, or my local café. But there are also plenty of other lies, particularly to my roommates. This is not because I am a bad person, it is more a case of an inability to communicate properly in Italian, and also sometimes laziness, when saying “I understand” or “si” is so much easier than saying “no, because…” and then explaining something really complicated. For this reason one of my housemates thinks I have a ... read more
Partying with the Dutch girls
The top of the Bologna tower
Firenze

Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Bologna February 19th 2008

Hello everyone! So I've been here for almost a month and thought I'd write and let you know a bit about my life in Bologna! The tearful farewell back in January turned out to be an anti-climax because a suicidal bird decided to fly into our plane’s engine, delaying our plane for three hours. Upon arriving in Hong Kong we discovered we’d missed our flight to Munich. So after a great day in Hong Kong, we left for Paris, and after getting kicked off a plane from Paris to Bologna, we were allowed on another one and finally made it to Bologna on Saturday, 66 hours after leaving Sydney. House hunting! Looking for accomodation was a great way to learn about the city. Bologna is a gorgeous but tiny city enclosed in a wall (it only ... read more
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Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Bologna December 9th 2007

Every now and then a person finds themselves in the right place at the right time whilst travelling and a unique experience happens. One such memorable night came together for Kris and I while we were in Bologna. The trip up to that point had been a success. We had climbed towers, drank cheap cold red wine, and followed Bologna's porticoed streets up in the hills to see the church and the view. Unfortunately this blog is a bit overdue (2 months, acually) and I have forgotten the names of some of the sights. We also took a train to Venice to enjoy the tiny streets, the cramped (yet charming) restaurants and sit in the back of a water bus much longer than our tickets allowed. However, although Venice really is a one-of-a-kind city, I know ... read more
Porticos and new friends
Alfredo

Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Bologna November 7th 2007

It’s too fast. Too fast. I can’t control it. I know it won’t do any good to try and brake. It’s too fast. The blue Renault is 20 cm from me and I have no control over the speed!!!! Never again I’m gonna stay at the driver seat after loading a car on the train. The train was fast, it was dark, and all I wanted was to slow it down… Never again!!! Made it to Italy. I was driving as fast as I could - about 80 KMH. The truck’s drivers saw me only as a minor problem if they saw me, driving at least twice faster then I was. Some of them found the fact that a woman is driving this funny slow thing funny and kept trying to get my attention. Sometimes, a ... read more
closing the sea
firenze
keeping the bed warm

Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Bologna October 18th 2007

So it appears that I have been absent for a while. Let me fill you in a little on what I’ve been up to. Let’s start with the most fun part. Last week I went to Italy to visit my darling parental units. Stupidly I chose to fly out of Paris on the day of the grève. Grèves (commonly known as strikes) occur often in France, but this one was supposedly particularly bad as all the transportation unions in the country were staging a strike on the same day. This basically means that in Paris, none of the buses or the metros or the RER (suburban trains) were running, however, business is as usual. The whole of Paris just walks to work, or borrows their kid’s scooter, or puts on a jogging suit and gets up ... read more
Fishes in the market
Chocolate store that sells Torteloni shapped chocolates
Courtyard of the old church near my parents monestry of a hotel

Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Bologna September 3rd 2007

After the sprint round the Uffizi we bumbled off to Ostiglia which is the ancestral home of Dean's grandfather, and something of a pilgrimage for him as he was very fond of his grandfather.He had attempted the previous night to ring Ricciardo - a relative who owns a hotel in Ostiglia- in order to book us in and alert him to our impending visit. This he was not able to do due to difficulties with Italian Telecom (he says) - OR Ricciardo's receptionist - he wasn't quite sure which....Anyway, we decided we would give it a go anyway so away we went, turning off the big motorway into the countryside, not quite sure of what we would find..... Well, it turned out to be one of the highlights of the trip (and my, doesn't your Italian ... read more
Ostiglia
Ostiglia 2
Lamberto, Ricciardo, Dean.

Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Bologna July 25th 2007

So I missed another bus which in turn caused me to miss my train from Bologna to Milan. So now, I’m just typing away in one of the waiting areas with my buddy, Cliff. It doesn’t even faze me anymore. And you must realize, that I do a lot of planning (like elaborate excel spreadsheets of exact arrival/departure times and buying tickets well in advance, I spend more time doing this over anything else) but I’ve learned something about life; as much as you try to control different areas of your life, there are some things that just are up to fortune, whether you believe in it or not. In the beginning of the trip, I would get really upset about missing trains and how unreliable buses/taxis/trains (they have strikes ALL the time) can be at ... read more
Prison
Ducati Factory
Humble Beginnings




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