Getting to Turin is not the cheapest and easiest thing in the world, and frankly, I was a little nervous that the event would not live up to high expectations. While many of my memorable gustatory experiences have been unexpected – stumbling upon a hole-in-the wall trattoria, or getting an understated recommendation – this trip was [...]
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BC Gastronomica at the Salone del Gusto
Posted in Culture, Gastronomica on 08/11/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Assisi: A City on a Hill
Posted in Culture on 24/10/2010 | 1 Comment »
From Drop Box The first weekend of the semester, and the last one without a massive reading load, a group of us decided to leave the safe walls of Bologna to explore the far, far away lands of the Umbria region. We took a Sunday morning train down south. After little more than three hours, we arrived [...]
The Petronians
Posted in Culture on 24/10/2010 | 1 Comment »
On one of the last hot days of October, Bolognesi and casual tourists gathered in Piazza Maggiore to watch the first flag-flyers’ contest in a long time organized to honor the city’s protector. A couple of days before San Petronio’s anniversary, the landscape, to which we are all now accustomed, of the main square of [...]
A Day in the Vines
Posted in Culture on 20/10/2010 | 2 Comments »
The bus pulled out of Piazza Cavour at a yawning 8:15 Saturday morning, just slightly before our expected 8:30 departure. We were a motley crowd of a dozen or so SAIS’ers, heading off to a private vineyard not far from Bologna, led by Michael Volpe who had organized the trip for everyone. We stepped off [...]
