We have just returned from a brief but wonderful trip to Bologna, Parma, Ravenna and Ferrara, guided by the excellent James McDonaugh from Art Tours. Of course the principal purpose of the trip was to see a series of medieval and Renaissance masterpieces, and we not disappointed in that respect. But it was also a pleasure to walk in the warm and bustling streets of Bologna, watching the city wake up in the morning, and indeed enjoy itself in the evening.