…when I’m going to Italy beginning of next week? 
Landing in Venice on monday afternoon, leaving from Bologna on wednesday a bit after lunch. Unfortunately it’s a work trip and I will have absolutely no free time for explorations or meeting up any of you folks (unless you work at either a foundry or a hardening company along the way from Venice to Bologna).
I only worry I will melt away during my stay, I have barely started to get used to 20+ degrees.
Get ready 30+ and melting!
If you free yourself for a dinner let us know!
Back at work so I can log in to the forum (for some reason I couldn’t log in using my phone).
I did survive my (too short) Italian trip, despite the heath. Italy was nice just like I remembered it from 1987 when I last visited (base camp Rimini then).
Before going I pretty much only knew what I wrote in my first message, landing in Venice Monday afternoon, getting picked up by my colleague to go to first company to visit, then going somewhere else closer to Bologna and finally flying out of Bologna on Wednesday.
It wasn’t until after dinner Monday evening when I had come back to the hotel in Pordenone that I had the idea to check where Jimmis pharmacy is located. I knew it was in the northern part of Italy, but I had guessed south of Venice, and not only 14 km away from my hotel! 
Well, Jimmi managed to squeeze in a brief meeting on Tuesday when I ran out of my meeting (we where discussing things where my input wasn’t needed) just before lunch. After lunch we had a meeting with another company in Carbonera, and then on to Bologna, or rather, to Poretta Terme, and then on Wednesday a meeting there and then to Bologna for the flight home… 
I will go back to Italy, and I don’t think it will take another 32 years, and then I will make sure I have more time. 
With all its contradictions, Italy is the most beautiful country in the world! (I’m biased, I know!) 
Very high on the list at least, the mountainous areas south of Bologna was very nice, and also seeing the mountains in the north Pordenone.
And you never need to go hungry from lack of tasty food, and even the wines…
