By the time we got to Florence, I was really starting to doubt my ability to research and find places we enjoyed eating. Our dinner that night as at yet another place that the message boards on Chowhound raved about, Trattoria I due G. Let me paste my notes in directly so you can see the [...]

The Hotel Ambasciatori was our splurge hotel. It not only has fabulous decor (kind of like an Italian take on the W hotel chain), but it’s located right across from the train station. As in, we walked out the door, crossed the street, and walked directly into the station. I didn’t find it to be [...]

After Bologna, was Florence. We slept in at Aemilia, grabbed a taxi, and made our way to the train station. After our last overwhelming experience at the Bologna train station we had a better handle on how to read the schedule, and we made arrived in Florence late in the afternoon (the trip flew by [...]

Bologna is sometimes referred to as “la grassa” in reference to its cuisine. It has a fantastic food district to wander around in, and we were engulfed by several tourist groups while strolling the streets around Tamburini (a deli/cafeteria style dining place lots of foodies rave about, but we didn’t end up eating there). It [...]

If you’re looking for a place to stay in Bologna, and you don’t want a 20 minute walk to city center, I highly recommend Aemilia Hotel. The staff spoke excellent English, the room was modern and clean, and compared to a lot of hotels closer to the city square of similar quality the price was really [...]