As we left our hotel to find dinner, my friends and I couldn’t help but notice that Bologna gave us a

weird vibe. It was just about 7:30 at night, and nearly everything was closed. It looked like the purge was about to commence, and everything had gone on lockdown to prepare. We remembered that Italians eat dinner a lot later than we do in America, so we figured we would give it some time before we deemed this place to be a wasteland. We wandered around the city until about 8:30, when we started to wonder if restaurants aren’t open on Sunday’s, or if there was an Italian holiday we didn’t know about, etc. Luckily, we stumbled upon a very nice restaurant not far from where we’re staying. It was reasonably priced, and they had my favorite food (risotto). When we sat down, we were brought drinks and chips like we were in the other cities. However, we weren’t brought menus until we asked for them at nearly 9:00. We were eventually brought food and had a really nice evening enjoying each other’s company. We’re still not really sure why everything was closed so late or why the people working at the restaurant were perplexed when we wanted to eat dinner at 8:30 in the evening, but it wasn’t a big deal since we had good company. Tonight, we plan on taking a different approach amen starting our search for a restaurant at 9:00. We also plan on exploring the opposite side of town.