Italy is uniquely INFURIATING.

We are very fortunately on the train to Bologna...not because they made it easy, on the contrary, Italy makes it as difficult as posible! We got to the station early...BIG MISTAKE! Italy doesn't do anything early...always late! They posted the train platform 5 minutes prior to departure...but it was the wrong platform. Oh ya, well, that happens...the train we wanted was 6 platforms away, and we just barely made it...that explains why everything is late, all the info is WRONG!!! Except for the first week in Soriano, I'm kind of hating Italy. The only people who aren't rude are the tourists who are fighting the same battle we are...did I mention I'm kind of hating Italy? Ok, ok...I've calmed down...we have a nice hotelroom in Bologna, and they have big ass churches here too! Boy, they sure love those big churches...

We didn't get the breakfast they said they would serve on the train, so we took the 5 mile trek to some mercado Dora had scoped out, for lunch! They sold pretty nice fruit, and veggies too...

Bologna is very modern compared to the other places we've been...

We decided to go out for a beer at, what turned out to be a biker bar that the mayor of Bologna was campaigning at...

...and, of course, the assistant mayor...

Just to be safe, we left before the shooting started!