david keeps finding reasons for us to hate him. the latest? setting the thermostat at 17. by the way, our hotel in bologna is really cool. old as hell, rustic...ish.

so a couple nights ago we were in milan. ate pizza, saw ridiculous churches, blah blah blah... italians seriously know how to dress. the girls might not be as naturally pretty as french girls, but they really take care of themseleves

in florence, we ran into a lady who immigrated from the phillipines but has been waiting to get into the us for 13 years. in france, we were talking to the saddam hussein looking guy in the front about how we wanted to come back when we were richer... he said that in america, we could do it. bottom line... america might be a whole lot cooler than we give it credit for.

bologna is a cool city. we just came here to have a base for doing car stuff (modena might have been better, we have no idea how were getting to pagani or maranello today). its not touristy, but more of a local college town. a couple nights ago we went out to watch the brazil- ivory coast game, and afterwards there was a parade of brazilians in the street, playing music and dancing. funny thing about the brazilians, like the italians, they just love being brazlian. same with the italians... in paris the local vendors had flags and shirts from everywhere, but in italy, its just italy, all the time. hats shirts, everthing, even the locals. and the brazlian locals... will never hesitate to let everyone know that they are brazlian. and you are not.

so after seeing a bunch of beautiful renaissance art in florence we were a bit bored of beautiful stuff (donatellos david is really cool in real life though), so we decided to see beautiful stuff.... with wheels. that took us to the ducati factory, which is impossible to find and apparently nobody in bologna knows that a massive name in motorcycles happens to be based here.

so we got there, not knowing that a reservation was required for entry, even just to the museum. this blew. fortunately for us, the tour that was leaving in 15 minutes had 9 no shows, so we got a practically private tour. and it was really, really cool. ducati puts out 250 handmade bikes a day, and even with those kinds of production members everything is triple checked, and just walking through you can tell that a ton of care goes into every bike. watching everything coem together was really cool. makes me kind of want to start riding, the machinery in there was seriously hot.

after that we went to a tiny town called santa'agata, home of lamborghini. we enjoyed a really pretty bus ride on the way there, passing through the italian countryside\

post has got to end here. running out of internet time.

so somestuff has happened since. we screwed up... trying to find a way to munich. werd. all is safe and well though.