Wome-twip to EMILIA ROMAGNA-Wavenna...giovedi 4/3 08

We awwived at the twain station in Bologna( yes Joey..the whole town is named after Balony, hehehehe..how gweat is that???????)


Thewe waiting on the platfowm was Opus and Roscoe's Mom ,Cyndi, with a welcome sign and giftses fwom my fwiends..they wewe supposed to stay home fow safety
This is Cyn...she lives in Emilia Romagna(that is the name of this wegion), and wuns gweat pawsonal touws! She knows evewything about the wegion..she's fwom Amewica and hew Husband is fwom Italy and he's an Awchitect and a teachew.

if any of you evew go thewe you should contact hew..cause she's tewwific!!
Esperia Travels your personal key to Italy Cynthia Abbott Zalambani info @esperiatravels.com

Thewe's a lot of weally pwetty covewed passageways in Bologna...the people awe vewy nice..(don't let that gwumpy-looking lady on the left fool you)..it's a oonivewsity town..one of the oldest Oonivewsities evew

The vantage point on top of the fountain was much bettew to see the piazza

It was less sunny hewe cause it's fuwthew nowf than Wome, but it was still nice enough to sit outside
We had some baloney samiches, and then look what I found...can't have a day wifout it, hehehe
thewe wew lots of school kids awound..I can take them ow leave them..Mommi pwefews to leave them
aftew lunch, we went back to the twain station, and caught the twain to Wavenna,the city has ancient owigins..fwom the 5th to the 8th centoowies, it was the capitol of the Westewn Woman Empiwe of King Theodowic of the Goths and otf the Byzantine empiwe in Oowope

Wavenna is bootiful...It is the city that keeps the mowtal wemains of Dante and keeps his memowy alive wif lots of impowtant cultoowal events.small enough to explowe easily....
evewyone is on Bicycles

look who snuck out of the house(it's Opus and Roscoe) .........................don't tell theiw Mom

We played and hided while Mommi and Daddi went to visit the Basilica..this is the biggest baftub I've evew seen..I think even Daddi would fit in it
This is inside the Basilica of San Vitale..the gweatest tweasuwe of the eawly Chwistian Ewa

the mosaics awe the most spectacoolaw you have evew seen!!!just look at those colows!

in the gawden outside all you heaw is biwds chiwping..it's peaceful and lovely

These next pictoowes awe in the Mausoleo di Galla Placidia

the intwicate mosaics glisten..thewe is one pawt whewe it's a dawk blue sky, wif golden staws..and the gold takes youw bweaf away Mommi says(she was still bweafing when she came out, so I don't know what she's talking about)
When my pawents had enough of gawking, we wewe weunited fow a family pictoowe
just outside the Basilica, I wan inot a young Whippet..it made me miss my whippet Waggle fwiends..we had a good westle and kiss and then wewe on ouw way
Opus and Woscoe's Mom was such a cutie and lots of fun..not old like my pawents

Aftew dwopping off ouw stuff at the hotel, we went to the Piazza del Popolo(Wavenna used to be a lagoon city like Venice, but the canals wewe closed doowing the pewiod of Venetian Woole at the end of the 15th centoowy)

now it's an elegant gweat squawe...pawfect fow sitting and having a dwink and watching the popolo walk by, hehehehehe

We walked awound neaw the piazza fow a while

This Dante's tomb..whewe his wemains awe..I think that means all his stuff is thewe(I guess like my toy box)

This is Daddi ,Cyn and Danilo aftew the dwink...

they dwopped me off at the hotel, Opus and Roscoe and I sat in the lobby fow a while

we decided to play while the pawents went fow dinnew
(the hotel is in a fowmew Villa..and has a libwawy, gawdens,living woom, and dining wooms as well as halls to wun awound in..pawfect fow playing)


they got home pwetty late and we all went to sneep , cause we had to get up weally eawly to catch the twain back to Wome..we loved it hewe and hope to come back..thewe is so much to see and we bawely had enough time to see a bit of it..plus I want to play wif Opus and roscoe some mowe..these guys awe FUN!

The nice lady at the hotel got up extwa eawly to give us bweakfast in this simple little dining woom, heheheh (Mommi said she would not like to clean that chandeliew..but I think it would make a gweat swing)
We wewe expecting the nowmal caffee latte and wolls and cownetti(we love all that), but look what they gave us..this is nuts!!!!(the little wound donuts on top wewe filled wif custawd)

Cheese and cold cuts (prosciutto etc.) and little wawm spinach filled tawt

fwesh peaw cake, ricotta cake, othew cakes, stwudel...we had to taste evewything..you don't want to keel ovew on the twain fwom stawvation, hehehehe

back to the twain

this is the way to the station in Bologna whewe we twansfew


see you back to Woma
CIAO