Category Archives: Italy
Patriotism in Venice
The Italian flag, plus some other stylish textiles, in Venice:
Terrible Street
No matter how terrible you have been, you can still get a street named after you. At least in Brindisi, Italy.
The End of the Rainbow
Finally I have discovered where the end of the rainbow is: off the coast of Sicily. (Photographed from the roof of my home in Rometta Marea on 16 October 2013.)
Did you notice the Irony? (20) EXPO Milan
Ever since the Watergate scandal, the suffix -gate is used to denote scandals, cases of corruption and other complex illegal activities. At this year’s EXPO in Milan, Italy, the planners or architects have already provided for the likelihood of corruption, … Continue reading
In the Jungle
Ok, not quite in the jungle, but at the impressive Botanical Garden of Palermo in Sicily.
It began with dense fog. (Part 2)
(Click here to read part 1.) The name of the picnic area – Musolino – reminded me too much of Italy’s erstwhile dictator, but we had just left the zone of the fog, and after the disappointment at the peak of Mount Dinnammare … Continue reading
It began with dense fog. (Part 1)
Mount Dinnammare sits 1,130 meters (3,700 feet) above the port city of Messina and offers splendid views across the strait of Scylla and Charybdis, to Calabria, across the mountains of Sicily and on both the Ionian and the Tyrrhenian Sea. After having just arrived … Continue reading
Wow, this ship is huge!
When you walk or drive along Via Giuseppe Garibaldi in Messina, a wide road running parallel to the shore and the port, you could at first sight believe that there is another row of multi-storey buildings behind the ones you’re … Continue reading
The Happy Hermit 