Category Archives: Apulia

Why I don’t eat Fish

Posted on 2014-08-17 by Andreas Moser

Because I know what it looks like before it gets on your plate: (Photographed behind the Swabian Castle in Trani, Apulia, Italy.)

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Going West

Posted on 2014-07-22 by Andreas Moser

17 July 2014. In the Albanian port city of Vlora (in which Albanian is merely a geographical description because Vlora is such a typical Mediterranean tourism and port city that it might as well be in Italy or in Turkey) I … Continue reading →

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Civil War is imminent

Posted on 2014-07-19 by Andreas Moser

Question: How do you know that outbreak of an armed uprising is imminent? Answer: The neighbors are painting their car in camouflage colors. (Photographed in my neighbors’ garage in Bari, Italy in July 2014. You have been warned.)

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Bari tonight

Posted on 2014-06-15 by Andreas Moser

I wanted to go outside to take a few photos of fans during the football match Italy versus England, but then I got held up by the moonlit Norman-Swabian Castle: Just in time before the end of the first half, … Continue reading →

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Bike Theft in Italy

Posted on 2014-05-27 by Andreas Moser

My flatmates in Bari carry their heavy bicycles up to the second floor every day, which I always dismissed as somewhat over-anxious. But then I witnessed how rampant bike theft is here. Look at these gangs of thieves who are getting away … Continue reading →

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Video Blog: Giro d’Italia 2014

Posted on 2014-05-13 by Andreas Moser

I just went outside to see why the neighbors are playing opera music and the national anthem and banging wooden sticks on baking trays and pots. The police came by in ever increasing numbers, trying to stop or at least contain the … Continue reading →

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Railway Strikes in Italy

Posted on 2014-05-13 by Andreas Moser

Question: How often is the railway in Italy affected by strike? Answer: Often enough for the timetables to include a column indicating whether this train will be operated during a strike or not (on the very right).

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Remember that Country?

Posted on 2014-05-10 by Andreas Moser

I wonder if the ferry will split into 7 different boats once it’s in the Adriatic Sea, with the boats fighting each other for a few years before eventually all entering some EU port. (Photographed in Bari, Italy in May 2014. … Continue reading →

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Flowers on Graves

Posted on 2014-05-07 by Andreas Moser

“We actually don’t care if our relatives will pay us a visit and put flowers on our graves. Nature is taking care of this already.” (Photographed at the cemetery of Bari in Italy.)

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Bari by night

Posted on 2014-04-29 by Andreas Moser

Don’t expect a full report about Bari by night. This is merely the photographic journey along one of my jogging routes, which I preferably run in the evening when both traffic and heat have subsided and then the colors of the illuminated … Continue reading →

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