Where I stayed in Bologna: Fabulous B&B Cà Bianca dell'Abbadessa in San Lazzaro di Savena
A personal trait of mine is that I do give out compliments easily and generously. I often frown on people when all they say are nothing but pretentious and superfluous takes on their lives, their jobs, their children and their vacations. Like when you ask, ‘How was your holiday?’ I would expect a more actual and reasonable answer other than, ‘It was OMFG fantabulous – the BEST holiday we’ve ever had – it was smashing our expectations, it could have not gotten any better.’ Hogwash. I get you are being positive but let’s just go back to earth and plant our feet on the ground, shall we? A lot of travel bloggers do this as well when they write blog articles with fetching headlines – ‘The Best blah-blah here and blah-di-blah there’ – ‘What you need to see or do before you die’. I mean seriously, what is best? What do you know of what I want in my life? For all I care, your best is not good as mine? And hello, I do not have ambitions to do skydiving! But I give them the benefit of the...