Bologna, Italy October 2006

took a train from rome termini station to bologna. in rome, went to vatican museum, st peter catheral etc to checkup some michelangelo's masterpieces, colosseum, constantine gate and a lot of ancient places, like Parthenon and fountain.
expensive hotel room at hotel roma at bologna, euro 130 per nite.
saw the balcony of juliet as in romeo and juliet but not so sure whether the one in the photo is the correct one. one of a distant friend, lucio cecchinello, a ex-GP125 racer and now, team manager for MotoGP came from Bologna (he used to have Casey Stoner as his rider in GP250, the young aussie who is now leading the points in MotoGP race this year, 2007. btw, there is a leaning tower in bologna too, maybe, built by the same architect of leaning tower of pisa. the pizza is delicious too and the chinese restaurant's owner daughter (chinese) spoke italian to me and i know nil on this language except 'gracias' and 'mamma mia'. look at the photo with the building that has a Dato Ali, didn't know Malaysian has ventured into bologna too, a Dato Ali, the building looks ancient, need to checkup when the sultans started giving dato titles out (Dato is one-level lower similar as Sir/OBE title given out by Queen Elizabeth but at times, I heard can be purchased using moolah like RM 100K onwards).