Rimini is also surrounded by a variety of theme parks. Since this particular trip was for Juliette, Victoria and I gave her the choice of going to a theme park or the beach. All during lunch, she was going back and forth about where she wanted to go. In the end she couldn’t make up her mind, but we wound up going to the beach, as it was getting late and the parks all had admission fees.
However, we wound up missing the final train back to Bologna, and had to spend the night in a hotel near the station. Juliette declared it the most beautiful hotel she had ever seen, while we thought of it as “adequate”. However, at least they served a decent breakfast in the morning.
The next day, Victoria and I thought “what the hell”, and decided to go to one of the theme parks, “Italy in Miniature”. The main attraction of this park is a collection, in 1:50th scale, of about 250 landmarks from all over Italy. Florence, Rome, Assisi, Sienna, Naples, Sicily… all within an easy walk. It sounds cheesy, and it was, but in a fun kind of way. What I took from this display was that I would never get to see all the sights of Italy in this lifetime, but now I can at least claim to have done so.
We also had a gondola tour of the grand canal of Venice … at 1:5 scale. In fact, this was vastly cheaper and less crowded than the actual thing. And, as it turned out, Juliette enjoyed this tour more than the actual thing as well… I’m sure Umberto Eco would have something to say about that.
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