Bologna; Thursday, 27 September, 2012

A quick journey through Gatwick soon ground to a halt with the news that the flight was already heavily delayed, and the delay was slowly creeping later.

Thankfully, with some shuffling round of planes, it was only 90 minutes late by the time we finally set off from Gatwick and headed to Italy.

There was still a pretty hefty delay in getting the bags at Bologna and by the time the airport bus crawled through the late evening traffic jams into the centre of Bologna it was gone 8:30 and the last bus direct to the hotel had departed for the evening.

In the end I walked the mile or so from the central station to the hotel and checked in, then headed back out into the Bolognese evening to look around the city centre.

Having taken a large number of photos I headed back to the hotel for a well-earned nights rest.