We left Minneapolis at 3:25ish, after a slight delay due to an Indian woman’s anxiety attack. After her husband’s pleas for either a roomier seat or anxiety drugs were rebuffed, they left, and the baggage handlers had to rummage through and “deplane” their bags. Arrived Amsterdam 11 p.m. Minneapolis time/7 a.m. Amsterdam time. Arrived Bologna 11:30 a.m. We took the autobus, which would not stop to let us off at the hotel, to the train station where we promptly caught a cab to go back to Albergo Panorama. We slept for a few hours — heaven. hot. swallows whistling relentlessly outside the window. Then our first stroll through Bologna, and a stop for pizza and vino at Ciro Pizzeria. On to Piazza Maggiore for people-watching and the only breeze in the city. Everyone is out, always. Despite the heat, the women wear fashionable boots and skinny jeans.

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