by eric | Dec 23, 2025 | Travel
For the final leg of our Fall European 2025 tour, we spent a week in Turin / Torino. Located in the northwest of Italy, close to the Alps, it is the capital of the Piedmont region, and a part of Italy we hadn’t yet visited. Turin was a royal capital for several...
by eric | Dec 22, 2025 | Food & Drink, International Travel, Travel
For our last Saturday in Bologna we decided on a daytrip to Ravenna, a coastal city known for its mosaic-clad 5th/6th century UNESCO world heritage sites. It is a little over an hour from Bologna by train, and our arrival was uneventful. Leandra had bought our tourist...
by eric | Dec 20, 2025 | Food & Drink, International Travel, Travel
For this day trip I wanted to see San Marino, as microstates are fascinating, and it would be my 60th country visited. Public transportation would have been inconvenient, so we decided to get a rental car. That prompted us to look at additional stops along the way and...
by eric | Dec 19, 2025 | Food & Drink, International Travel, Travel
Ferrara was our first daytrip from Bologna, and while the closest, it took almost an hour on the train due to various slowdowns. Once we arrived we were quickly out of the station, across the road and into town. Our first impression is that the wide surrounding...
by eric | Dec 17, 2025 | International Travel, Travel
Most of the core sights are within a few kilometers, so we walked all over the city during our four weeks in Bologna – had to work off all the pasta and gelato! Churches The Basilica di San Petronio is the main church in the city and as it is free, we visited...