I’m back in Bologna again for a couple of months, doing a scenic two-mile walk every day and teaching my ‘Economic Instruments for Pollution Control’ course remotely for HNC. It was a wonderful & very busy month of travel getting here, starting with my annual Paris visit at the IFP School; spending time in Paris, London, and other UK sites with family & friends; taking in a Mediterranean cruise to Spain & Morocco; and checking out some other major locations in Italy.

Instead of providing a detailed travel guide, I’ve added some brief postings below, and will let the pictures do the talking.

Arriving back in Bologna, a welcoming crowd was here to greet me:

……well, not really. It was instead a protest march on the same day as my arrival. Signs calling for an end to “repression” and “tyranny” were readily evident, with a rather young crowd following loud, thumping music trucks, and consuming plenty of liquid refreshments of the alcoholic kind. Italy’s new right-wing government had recently passed some “anti-rave” legislation, and the affected crowd of 15,000 persons was not pleased.