Travel to Bologna, Italy.

Country/Town visited: Bologna, Italy 
Date of stay: 3days, July 2010
Where you stayed: Hotel/Hostel accommodation
Travelled with: As a couple
Tour or pre planned:Pre planned 

Italy was love at first sight, last summer we traveled around for a month by train and though we had some rough patches I don’t think you will need much convincing to visit this beautiful country.

Bologna is perhaps one of Italy’s great unsung cities. Thus we only spent two nights in the city before continuing our journey, but we are planning to head back for another few days at some point.

Getting to Bologna from London is easy by train. The Eurostar requires only a 30minute check-in and is only two hours to Paris. I like to take an early train so that I can spend an afternoon in Paris. Enough time to grab a baguette, some brie and wine for the train journey. Then it is an overnight train to Italy stopping in Bologna, Florence and Rome. I do love the train but be careful with connections if you are heading somewhere else as after several experiences I don’t believe the international trains that go through Italy ever arrive on time. However the scheduled time to arrive in the city is around 6 so even a late train is fairly early in the morning. Like most European train stations there is a baggage check and arriving so early you can consider leaving your bags there and heading straight into the centre for breakfast. The best thing about traveling by train is that the main station is often very much in the centre and the Bologna central station is right on the top of the old city.
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