Bologna

I can’t lie. I didn’t eat spaghetti alla bolognese in Bologna, and for that I feel like a failure. Although I did devour an excellent plate of tagliolini con zucchine e speck so I don’t actually care too much about the lack of ragu that went down.

Bologna is a great city. Less tourists, much cooler (still hot and sunny, but nice), full of great deli’s, café’s, restaurants, bar’s and gelateria’s and with a cool ‘university town’ vibe.

We stayed at a hotel in the suburbs of Bologna, a 10 minute bus ride from the city centre, but with the room costing €16/night pp for all the amenities and facilities we could dream of (free buffet breakfast incl), we were more than happy to fork out a euro to get into town.

We only had one full day in Bologna so we did what we do with every city and wandered around, took in the life of the city, laughed at strangers, ate food and drooled at the sight of every deli.

We went out on the second night to a bar called Cafe de Paris. It was good, not as expensive as we had imagined and we had a reasonably quiet night there. Again, like Genova, Bologna is not one with a crazy nightlife, perhaps only on the weekend!

Highlight of Bologna - eggs for breakfast!!