04-11 Monday
Bologne, Italy
Whether: Light rain 8c
We arrived in Bologne at around 8am and found a hotel to stay in by using the tourist office located at the train station. We needed an internet café to sort out our next accomodation so aftergoing to the place the Lonely Planet had listed - only to find it had shut down,then going to the free internet service offered by the council at town hall - booked out, then going to the one listed by the tourist information - "we are having computer problems", we decided to have a coffee instead. Well, German coffee was inconsistant - sometimes good, sometimes ok, but Italians know how todo coffee and we paid euro1.10 for a cappacino - so cheap too.
Eventually we found a functioning internet café and sorted out the next weeks accomodation. By then it was lunch time so we did as most of Bolognedo and have lunch. The pasta lived up to expectations and again we were surprised at how cheap the food was. After lunch we thought to explore the many museum of Bologna since it was still wet but theywere all closed on Mondays. Bologna had also shut down until 3pm - nowwe understood why the restaurant had got so packed. All the shops were closed and everybody was at siesta. Eventually we found an open museum that was run by a university. Anatomical and maps - itwas free entry, interesting (and disturbing anatomical) displays. We went back to the hotel at around 6pm and did not emerge until the next morning.
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