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Second installment of my Italy trip.

Woke up at some forsaken hour to catch the train to Bologna. Which we almost missed. Mehh. First ever time cutting it so close. Unfortunately not my last.

Three hours later finally reached Bologna at about 9.30am. Dropped our bags off at the B&B and then went looking for breakfast. Waking up so early does tend to make one hungry. First impression of Bologna was quite nice. Not too crowded and small enough to easily walk from one point to another.

Neptune's fountain. Can you see where the water is coming out from? Haha.

Felt so atas having breakfast.

Not much in Bologna just your usual churches. That is basically what all of Italy is about. 

So slightly creepy exhibition about the beauty of death. 

View from Asinelli's Tower.

Like the Leaning Tower in Pisa, the tower is also slightly slanted. 

498 steps up. Talk about a workout. 

Though a bit lesser known, Basilica of San Domenico is one of the major churches in Bologna. And one of the prettier ones. The art in it was really top notch. Surprised it isn't as famous. 

Chapel where St. Dominic is buried. 

Dinner posed a slight problem. Didn't feel like eating at the restaurant we picked out so had to wander around the city of quite a bit. Most of the places were only serving aperitivos seeing as they were catered more to university students. So after a good hour of walking around the world, okay fine more like the whole of Bologna, settled on buying some crepes and sitting on the steps. 

Supper! Some dove shaped cake-ish(Colomba) thing that is only around for Easter.

Super duper yummy. Wish I had bought some back to Manchester. 

Next morning set off to visit the Archiginnasio of Bologna. It used to be the main building of the University of Bologna but now it houses the library instead. Why is it so important? Well, the University of Bologna is the oldest standing university in the world established in 1088 so that was pretty cool. 

Had lunch and made it to the train station with time to spare(way paranoid after the previous close call) for the train to Florence.