Pretty rich that Dash’s joint ran a screed on tourists ruining Bologna just after we were there and met a shopkeeper who said the Chamber of Commerce was reveling in having gotten the NYT (and Forbes) over to hype it as an undiscovered destination. We’re pretty proud that we realized the first mortadella cafe we saw was bogus. But then we’d only gone cuz it was one of the few big cities in Italy we hadn’t eaten our way through (NatGeo and travel and corporate photography gigs were once a thing, alone with workshops). And we have a longtime friend who lives there who shared a spreadsheet of restaurants. And, and while we stayed in an amazing Airbnb in a superb location, I did feel for the locals…