Report on EIPC Italian Seminar 1994

Stepping off the British Airways flight from Heathrow into the midday sun of Bologna, Italy, it is amazing the difference in temperature two short hours can make. A brief bus trip, train journey and taxi cab later and we arrive at the hotel housing the delegates for the two-day meeting. The conference/exhibition centre is less than two kilometres away. A pleasant walk in dry weather, but the following two days preceded some of the wettest weather in Europe, with four inches of rainfall in one day. Our location is Modena in northern Italy, heartland of some of the richest cuisine in the country.