Bologna, Italy

Whilst we lived in London, finding the inspiration (and time) to blog was driven by the need to record down all the memories of cultural sites visited that were so intriguingly different to what we had grown up with in Melbourne.
But now at the cusp of our 5 month anniversary of returning to Australia, although we have only managed a handful of posts in this time-frame - a resurrection of this hobby is now underway and (fingers crossed) we will complete the full set of posts on our 5 month holiday before 2016 ends. This next post leans heavily to one of our favourite travel pastimes - eating cured meats and drinking wine.

Bologna, Italy

Bologna, capital of Emilia-Romagna region of Italy is known by three nicknames - the "Learned One" in reference to its university; the "Red One" for the many terracotta building tiles; and the "Fat One" in honour of the cuisine. We came to visit for the food: from the meat based pasta sauce 'ragu' that gave its name to bolognese sauce; to the mortadella sausage speckled with cubes of fat. We ate many local delicacies and our tip for future travellers would be to bring a large suitcase as you will no doubt find some gourmet goodies that you would wish to bring back home as a reminder of this foodie city.