Continued from Bologna(Maranello) 2026 Day 3 Part 2.

So last night out of the blue I get a message from our next airbnb host, where we will be checking in 4 days, that we should review the house rules…they mentioned that no children between 2-12 are allowed….What The Fuck!!! When I had booked this, the additional rules aren’t shown until after you book, and in my booking profile it says I’m booking with my 3 kids. This is in 4 days until were supposed to stay there, which means I can’t switch accommodation easily due to the busy summer season. What the hell, I’m super pissed! Why did they even accept my reservation months ago if they already knew I was traveling with young children and they don’t allow young children?

Yeah, I’ve never seen age restriction for young children before. Wasn’t anywhere on the main listing.

Here I am messaging with the host to try to resolve and maybe cancel, the host offered to let us stay if we sign a liability release form…nope, not signing shit, especially in a different country with different laws and different language. I can’t believe they are pulling this BS last minute. While I was messaging with the host, the airbnb automatically flagged the conversation and suggest that I speak to them. I called airbnb, and very quickly they determined that it is against airbnb rules to restrict children based on their age. This is a well reviews and often stayed at airbnb, I am surprised this is coming up like this. Did other people just sign the form? Someone else must have complained, right? Did they not review our application carefully and accidentally accepted without noticing that I was traveling with kids? Either way, airbnb said they’ll go to bat for me and contact to host and they’ve got strong financial disincentives on their end to make sure the host follows airbnb rules. Yeah, man, this is fucked up. Talk about unnecessary stress while I wait to find out what the result will be. Was supposed to be a relaxing easy last day here in Bologna, but it could turn into a frenzy looking for accommodation depending on outcome of our current booking.

In the mean time, breakfast. Thanks RL!

I’ve been using the Nespresso machines that seems to be ubiquitous in all these European airbnbs. I kinda want one now.

RL took the girls to get their nails done this morning.

The salon owner had this 3 month old puppy Maltese named Noemi. The girls thought she was the cutest dog in the world, vs our mobad back at home, the worst mutt in the world.

Nails done, but the talk this morning isn’t the nails, but the tiny cute dog.

RL kept up the tradition of buying some sheet music for her friend LL during our travels but forgot to take a picture of the cool music shop so took a picture of the bag instead…

Lunch spot. There’s an overwhelming amount of choices for meals here. What’s made harder is that most places serve very similar menus. Imagine picking between 100 restaurants that are all the equivalent of bar and grills in America. Almost everyone has good reviews, so either they are all good, or no one gives terrible reviews anymore unless they are truly terrible.

I like the cheese container.

No idea what he’s laughing at.

OK, you can laugh but let’s not be the loudest person in the room, ok?

Yum, looking good. That dark lump is spinach, which the Italians seem to offer everywhere on their sides menu.

She didn’t get to order her green (spinach) lasagna at the last restaurant, my fault, I forgot to order it for her. So we get a redo here at lunch today. Continuing our winning meals in Bologna, this meal was again very good. Kids love eating bolognese sauce with tagliatelle, or what they spaghetti with sauce.

Don’t know what laundry situation will be like at our next spot, so let’s do another load. The dryer here is like the one in London, has a reservoir to store all the water that gets heated out of the clothes, and this one is cleverly stored in the front window so that you can always keep track of when to empty.

It’s been hot here in Italy. It’s was hot in Paris when we left, and it’s gotten even hotter with record breaking heat. Over the rest of our stay here in Europe, we would see headlines everyday even in American news about the extreme heatwave that Europe is experiencing this summer. Why couldn’t it have been an extreme cold front so we could have a nice cool time here?

No comments needed.

We took a nap in the afternoon, and in other news, the Airbnb issue seems to have been resolved. Airbnb contacted the host, they said signing the liability waiver won’t be necessary. I checked with the Airbnb agent and rechecked again and it seems to be the case. I just don’t want to show up in Florence in 4 days and be presented with the waiver with the ultimatum of sign it or find a different place to stay. Either way, I’ll give credit to Airbnb in this case for resolving this issue for me as painlessly as possible. Surprised that they actually offered me proactive customer service, which is almost impossible to find nowadays.

Going to go check out the Neptune statue in Piazza Maggiore since we didn’t get to get a look at it the other day when RL felt ill. I want to find the black stone by the statue that the tram tour told us about and find out what it’s all about.

But first, Foot Locker to see if we can find a soccer jersey for LKL for a soccer team in Bologna.

No jerseys in his size were found, unfortunately. Seems like we may just have to wait to get him a soccer jersey in Florence. There’s no Italian World Cup soccer jersey to be had this year since they didn’t make the World Cup…how embarrassing.

I looked and looked but could not find the black stone. I did some research afterwards and found the stone, which is located around the spot that CL’s head is covering. It’s just a slighting darker stone, not Black black. With that said, the secret is that if you viewed the statue from the angle of standing on the stone, the extended thumb of the left hand makes the statue look like it has an erect penis.

Pretty awesome that the nipples are spraying water as part of the fountain.

They are having a silent film festival while we are here and they show it on a projector at night.

These two fight nonstop and pick on each other nonstop, but then they also do stuff like this out of the blue.

I think this slower day is putting everyone in a happier mood.

Dinner spot.

Typical Restaurant, ha.

LKL loves tortellini in broth.

Polenta, didn’t know they ate that here in Italy, and considering that it’s originally from America, this must have only been a thing in like the last 500 years or so.

Yum, veggies.

Ring bell for sex, nice.

Done with dinner, now a stroll to the gelato shop.

Look at all that mortadella.

The same gelato shop we’ve visited the past few days.

Good way to close out Bologna is with gelatos while sitting on the main pedestrian thoroughfare right by our Airbnb. Tomorrow, we’ll take a train with transfer to Siena.

To be continued at Siena 2026 Day 1.