Category: Travel

I usually do some volunteer work in Bologna. I work at a program called Scioglilingua at the wonderful library called Sala Borsa (borsa = stockmarket, it was once just that) and have done some translations for the city government (comune) of Bologna. My first assignment for the comune this year was to translate a tourist brochure […]

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 […]