Catching up with Dennis in Italy

Yesterday we got to spend the day with my brother Dennis who is traveling around Europe with his friends. We changed our train tickets and Accomodation to come to Bologna in Italy and Dennis caught a train down from Milan to Bologna for the day. It was fantastic, I had been looking forward to catching up with him for months. The day before it had been monsoon style raining and hailing, and was about 5 degrees. So I was praying for a good weather day. It was sunny and about 28 degrees. Amazing. We met him at the fountain of Neptune and he Bec and I went for coffee. We spent the next couple of hours exchanging travel stories and amazing experiences. After we had ititially caught up we decided to climb the 93 m Tower of Bologna for some nice views of the old city. Bec decided to stay at the bottom as it was a fairly tight staircase all the way up, ( secretly she was giving us a some bro time to catch up) we sat up the top and chatted about all kinds of things for about half an hour, then went back down, we also got our great views of the city with a big blue sky.

After this we had really nice pizza from a shop selling it by the slice, Dennis and I got two slices and made our own DIY calzones :) Then after this we decided to head about 3 kms up to the top hill overlooking the city, it was sooo nice, a grassy hill that went up and up, with views of Vineyards, farm houses, and the sea of terra cotta roof tops that is old Bologna. We loved it soo much we stayed up there on a picnic rug for another couple of hours chatting about everything.

Then finally it started to cool down a bit around 6 pm so we wandered down to a local recommended Restaraunt where we had really delicious pasta and wine, Dennis had oven Baked Gnocchi, Bec had fat flat pasta and I had Black Tortellini with Truffles. Soo good. After this we looked up a good Gelato place to get desert, boy it was nice, If Fantasi Gelato in Naples was a 10 this one was a 9.5 , I had the dark chocolate with Pestachios and the Sicillian Pestachio flavour ( think I'm spelling Pestachio wrong but seriosly how offer do you use that word? :)

Bec called me a rat, cos I got all the flavours that would kill her, haha, though we all had nice Gelato on our way back to the train station. There we said goodbye to Dennis and went back to the Accomodation.

It was a perfect day in Italy, spending time with family, what a blessing.