admin September 28th, 2007
The small town of “Castel dell’Alpi” is located between Bologna and Florence, in the appennines, in the Comune of San Benedetto val di Sambro, counting about 4000 people.
It is an artificial lake, and it’s quite popular in the nearby area during the summer. It is possible to take short boat trips and do pic-nic on the fields nearby. It is easy to reach from Bologna, taking the highway and exiting in “Pian del Voglio”. We went there some years ago and was very crowded, hard even to find a parking place!
In the photo below you can see it, and in the distance the main bridge passing over it.
admin September 10th, 2007
In the photo above you can admire a closeup of a giant bilberries plant I found last week of august, while taking a short walk in the wood nearby our house (in Taro Valley, Italy). The bilberries usually grow above 800-900m on the sea level, but we never saw such big ones before!! Of course they couldn’t escape us, and I must admit they tasted good.
It’s really cool, walking in peace in wonderful woods, and find along the path such beautiful surprises. Tasting the nature’s food like men used to do time ago, without any OGM or import/export from suspicious countries… 
admin September 3rd, 2007
Took this picture while I was on a short trip in the natural park of “Cinque Terre”, in the italian region of Liguria. It is at the same time quite fun and bizarre, because of the skull in center of the icon above what is a church entrance! yes exactly, that is a closeup of a church entrance in a small town (I forgot the name, not sure if was Monterosso or Manarola).
I don’t know latin well but from what I can understand the text says something like “guild of prayers and deaths”! very scary…!