I had a lovely morning of wandering in and out of the shops on the Via Indepenza, making mental notes of everything I wanted to come back and buy. I really love the fashion in Europe. I am having a slight obbsession with pretty socks and stockings of late and have to constantly remind myself that I only have one pair of feet to wear these socks, so I really don't need another pair to add to the collection of 24 million.
My favourite thing about Bologna is definitely the beautiful porticos. There are 32km worth of these arched walkways, weaving around the city- so that means rain, hail or shine (whatever you despise!) you are almost always certain to be able to hide from the elements.
Whilst walking about the city, I happened to stumble upon the Archeological Museum of Bologna. The museum is actually in the Archiginnasio Palace, which was the first permanenet seat of the ancient University of Bologna. It was really interesting to explore all the old classrooms and the courtyard. The best part was the Anatomy Theatre where the original set up was maintained with the operation table for dissection of corpses in the middle and the Lecturer's chair surrounded by two "skinless" statues.
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| If I had a coat of arms, it would be this one |
The hallways of the Museum were so unique and very richly decorated, I loved it.The walls and roof was covered in nscriptions and memorial monuments of prominent professors of the university, surrounded by thousands of coats-of-arms and names of students
I spent ages looking at all the different coat-of-arms for each family name and decided this one was my favourite because not only is the horse trying to steal an apple off the man but it is also wearing a crown haha.
Today, yet again I indulged in a some traditional Italian cooking but unfortunately it was not as good as yesterday which broke my heart :( Therefore, in order to cheer myself up I bought another delicious gelati and sat on the steps of Palazzo Maggiore and watched the world go by.
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| yesterday's scrum-didily-umpticious lunch ! |
On a final note, because I have been away for so long, I know all my friends are missing the dumb blonde things I say. Therefore, to entertain them in other ways I have been flooding their inboxes with pictures of me pulling the most attractive faces I can muster. I bet you wish you woke up to texts like this too hey? hahaha
