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Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro
Bologna – city of porticoes
Funny that you once jutted down a note that there wasn't much to see in Bologna since it is such a fabulous place. I visited Bologna very shortly about 10 years ago and I absolutely loved that city. The fact that it is known as The city of porticoes (as you might know, I love porticoes) is only one of many reasons for that. You also wrote that queing is chaotic in Italy. So Italy is the queing antithesis to Japan then? I don't think there is any place in the world where queing is more civilized than in Japan. /Ake