Washing and Walking

Our second last day in Bologna led us to a lavanderia to get our clothes washed. Only it was closed. So we walked to another lavanderia and it was closed too. We looked up the street to a third lavanderia and lo and behold, you guessed it, it was closed. Our bag of clothes was substantial and none too light but we soldiered back to our apartment and put a load through the washer here.

We headed down to L’Incontro for our morning coffee and cornetto, returned home to put the second load through and hang the first load on the clothes horse. This was not quite what we had in mind for the start of our day. But as experienced travellers, we understand you just have to be flexible and roll with it when things go awry, as they can do.

After returning home to hang out our second load of washing, we headed back out again to photograph the towers of the city. There are a number of them. One of theml is like Pisa’s famous tower and is leaning heavily. It has been shored up, but I have no idea if that is a permanent fix or just a delay to the forces of gravity pulling it over. We had a nice lunch at a place called Roxy Bar that had a large open space with marble flooring and painted panelled ceiling. Quite fancy. A few more pics as we walked the various streets looking and discovering this and that. Then home for a nap and a rest and some reading.

Around 5pm or just after, we headed out again to L’Incontro for aperitivo, our usual spritzes; me Campari Spritz (my new favourite drink) and Chris, L’Incontro Spritz. Our favourite waiter Manuel had a ready smile and “ciao” for us as always. Today, we learned he has only recently arrived in Bologna having come from Abruzzo for work. We’ll try to help out a little before we leave.

We ate in again tonight and chatted about our day tomorrow. We have decided to leave the apartment a day early and stay at the airport hotel on Sunday night as our flight to London is 7am and we cannot guarantee a taxi ride at 4 or 5 in the morning to get us there on time.Read more