Friday, August 15, 2008

Bologna

After the short trip to Ferrari Museum, we went to the city of Bologna. Bologna has its own reputation as the food capital of italy, and thus where the terms spaghetti bolognese comes from.

Our trip was delayed as we needed to wait for bus in Maranello. So by the time we arrive in Bologna it's already 3-4 pm. By that time most of the restaurants are closed. In fact it is in whole italy that restaurants only open during lunch time and dinner time.

After a short walk, we found an open restaurant, and ordered our lunch, lasagna bolognese. The food portion was moderate, however, the meat sauce was a lot, hiding most of the lasagna from view. I would have stayed for more of these if we had not need to go back the same day.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Ferrari Museum

Another trip we made was to the Ferrari Museum, located in the city of Maranello, around 3-4 hours trip from Trento.

Although I'm not a big fan of cars or racing, I like how they shape the car body. I would say cars with a lot of curves look really good.

The trip itself was time consuming due to the lack of frequency of buses going there. The whole city of maranello was full of ferrari logo, from bus stop to coffee shop.

The museum itself is not so big, yet expensive, considering that it's the only attraction in the region. We did try to go to Ferrari factory, but only to be told to buy one first before we could enter.

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Torino

There goes another part of my backdated trip post. The last place we went to after cinque terre was torino. The city is neat, with some huge city squares. There are few castles in the city. They have the same characteristics as their counterparts in Milan. The structure reminds me of the Heroes computer game's rampart castle. However, we didn't spend a lot of time there to check if it's open.
There's also Juventus shop there. But everything is pretty expensive. There's no such thing as a euro 8 souvenir T-shirt. The things they sell are for fans.