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 [...]

In September of 2011 we boarded a plane for Europe. We flew the Polish airline LOT, which was a big mistake (I’ll get more into that later). Departed from Chicago, landed in Warsaw, and ended up in Katowice. My FIL’s smiling face is always such a welcome sight after that journey, especially with a toddler [...]

I’m still only like halfway through all of my photos, but some of the first edits I did was putting together the panoramas I made using the Brenizer method* (see some really phenomenal examples of what this method can do for portraits here). It’s so fun to see the end product after Photoshop stitches all of [...]