My Sandra Lee Moment (Or the Post In Which I Stop Caring About Verb Tenses)

Final morning in Bologna and I slept in until 8. There have been too many early mornings, too many afternoons of jet lag necessitating a 25 minute nap (this is only tolerable given that many things close for a ripasso at this time, anyway). Today we will follow a tradition of L and B who […]

Wow, That’s A Crazy Long Post

While still the haze of dawn hung in the sky, as the clouds were breaking behind the tower beyond my window, I was up and getting ready for the day. Today L and B planned to stay in Bologna scouting out some of her museums, but I have seen most of the ones I wish […]

The Post Without Snark (Excepting the Title)

The times are innumerable and the conversations beyond memory, when I have said to people, “the food markets in Bologna are incredible! I would love to cook there, perhaps even take a cooking class.” And today those hopes came finally to fruition. I took a class that I found online – there were a few […]

Best Name for a Wine Bar. Ever!

Crawling out of bed early this morning, I met L and B for breakfast on the balcony. For me this was a pastry and some figs that are so fantastically ripe they are just dripping with sugar. Following breakfast we headed to the best-named museum in the world: the MAMbo. Museum of modern art of […]

Are You Sure You Aren’t One of My Sicilian Cousins?

Today was a day of food excursions. Or more specifically, “excursion.” B had arranged for us to go with a group on a tour of the regions three biggest foods (there are more than three, but one must have limits). The driver was to pick us up at 7:10. I was awake well in advance, […]

New Touristy Things to Try in Bologna

In a previous post I declared that Bologna as a tourist destination had little more to offer. This never was meant to imply that I wouldn’t return, but rather that I would return to a love; to reminisce, to eat, and be together. But I had no more museums of interest. No more new sights […]