The Venaria Palace is a former royal hunting residence and gardens located on the outskirts of the city. The most efficient transport seemed to be the an express bus from Castello; unfortunately for...
Blog posts from Euro Fall 2025
Euro Trip 2025: Turin’s Piazza della Repubblica markets
The Turin Piazza della Repubblica is a large square that was right around the corner from our apartment. Bisected by trams, it is a bustling spot. At night it is a large parking lot, and each...
Euro Trip 2025: Torino+Piemonte Card
Turin is a beautiful city but almost everything has an entry fee, and several of the main attractions are expensive. Like many cities they offer a card that gets you into multiple sites. The 24-hour...
Euro Trip 2025: Turin, overview and where we stayed
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...
Euro Trip 2025: daytrip to Ravenna
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...
Euro Trip 2025: day trip to Dozza and San Marino
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...
Euro Trip 2025: day trip to Ferrara
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...
Euro Trip 2025: Bologna sites
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...
Euro Trip 2025: Bologna restaurants
We typically only had one meal 'out' per day, sometimes lunch, sometimes dinner. For a few favorites we returned to a restaurant at a different time of day too. il Passatello di Bologna - Easy to...
Euro Trip 2025: Bologna takeaway meals
We never tired of Italian food during our month in Bologna. Between the different pastas and sandwich options, there was plenty of variety! Since we didn't always want to sit down at a restaurant...
Euro Trip 2025: Bologna markets and supermarkets
Bologna hosts a wide range of markets, from the standard supermarkets, to local food markets, and the periodiic flea markets. Over our four weeks we tried to hit as many as we could. Tuday CONAD - a...
Euro Trip 2025: Bologna gelato
Bologna is a food city, including for gelato. We set out to try most of the top-rated gelaterie and definitely had a few favorites. I generally stuck with pistachio but also discovered 'crema' as a...
Euro Trip 2025: Bologna aperitivo
We fully embraced the spirit of aperitivo during our month in Bologna, typically going out for a pre-dinner drink and snack Wednesdays through Sundays. Medulla Vini - We visited here a couple years...
Euro Trip 2025: Bologna, overview and where we stayed
When people ask about our favorite city in Italy, we vacillate between Rome (for the sights and sheer history) and Bologna (for the food). After enjoying our previous trips to Bologna (2017, 2023)...
Euro Trip 2025: Treviso sites
We found Treviso to be very picturesque and a great value (even by Italy standards). Access to the city center is limited for cars and the compactness made it easy to explore on foot. Plus the...
Euro Trip 2025: Treviso food and drink
Located right around the corner from our place, we visited All’ Antico Pallone twice. The first time to wait for our apartment to become available and the second time as a snack break to rest our...
Euro Trip 2025: Treviso – overview and where we stayed
We originally chose Treviso because it was reachable via a direct shuttle ride from the bus station in Ljubljana to the Treviso airport. From there, we caught the Airlink to the main bus terminal, a...
Euro Trip 2025: Slovenia – a day in Ljubljana
We spent our last day in Slovenia in the capital, Ljubljana, where having a car was unnecessary. So we dropped our car at the airport before noon and headed to the bus stop. The airport info desk...
Our Itinerary
2025 Trips
Tampa Bay, FL (Jan)
Buenos Aires, Argentina (Feb)
Villa la Angostura, Argentina (Feb)
Bariloche, Argentina (Feb)
Iguazu Falls, Argentina + Brazil (Feb)
Miami, FL (Feb)
Richmond, VA (Mar)
Boston, MA (Apr)
Kathmandu, Nepal (May)
Bhutan (May)
Doha, Qatar (May)
Bristol + London, UK (Jul)
Long Island, NY (Jul)
Slovenia (Sep)
Treviso, Italy (Sep)
Bologna, Italy (Sep)
day trips from Bologna (Oct)
Turin, Italy (Oct)
Greensboro, NC (Nov)
2024 Trips
San Diego, CA (Jan)
Sarasota, FL (Feb)
Madrid, Spain (Mar)
Valencia, Spain (Mar+Apr)
Palma, Mallorca (Apr)
Croatia (May)
Long Island, NY (July)
Faroe Islands (Aug)
London, UK (Sept)
Puglia, Italy (Sept)
Matera, Italy (Oct)
Rome, Italy (Oct)
Mosel Valley, Germany (Oct)
Frankfurt, Germany (Oct)
London + Manchester, UK (Dec)
2023 Trips
San Diego (Jan)
Orlando (Feb)
Richmond, VA (Apr)
Northern Italy (Apr)
NC Mountains (May)
Long Island (Jul)
Wisconsin (Aug)
Chicago (Aug)
Oak Island, NC (Sept)
Brooklyn, NY (Sept)
Bordeaux + Rugby World Cup (Sep)
Castilla y León (Sep)
Seychelles (Nov)
Willamette Valley (Dec)