Category: Culture

Sales, sales, sales! We arrived in Bologna on 23 February and the next day the first order of business was to get the phone service clarified for my phone and buy a SIM card for Karen’s. Then to combat jet-lag and start getting re-acclimated we went for a long walk. Wow, everything is on sale. Fantastic. […]

So you would like to come to Italy for a longer period than the 90 day visa free period. One word – fuggedaboutit! I have gone to Bologna seven times, for periods from 7 to 12 weeks and wanted to go for a longer period. So I figured 6 months would really feel like living […]

Ah, this is the last post on this trip since my flight back is tomorrow. I have a few random photos of Bologna that I think are interesting. But first a discourse on the art of a longer trip. Part of the reason for this relatively short trip (6 weeks) was to lay the groundwork […]

That is Biblioteca Sala Borsa. This is the third or fourth time that I have done volunteer work at the library (biblioteca) in the center of Bologna. I did a post about this fantastic library  – you can read more about it by clicking here. My volunteering consists of using a skill that I obviously […]