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…! 
admin August 7th, 2007
The day is sunny, beautiful, already from the morning. The air is fresh, clear. The sky is deep blue and not a single cloud on sight: a climate particularly good considering that recently we got used to semi-tropical heat here in Italy…!
So we decided to take a day off, to explore some mountains nearby. Once again our starting point was “Passo della Cappelletta”, that connects Emilia Romagna with Liguria.
Once we arrived there, the view was incredible… I have no words to describe it, and I hope that the photos can at least give you a vague idea of what beautiful day it was. We took the official path that leads to Mount Gottero, even if we didn’t manage to reach the top because of time constraints.
Of course the cows aren’t missing even this time. They add a “bavarian” touch to the landscape. If I didn’t know, I could even be thinking to be really in Austria or Bavary. We even met another group of escursionists during our trip, very unusual for those places.
Just before heading back home I have time to take some funny pictures… a really weird shaped tree. It seems almost an enormous mouth, with a nose!
admin July 14th, 2007
Nearby “Passo Colla”, 1000m of height on sea level, past 4km of rough road you can find an old abandoned small village called “Dugara”. Some houses are completely broken, only the walls left with some ivy growing on them. Others are still in good conditions, only waiting for someone to come there and open their windows again, to gain a new life.
All around, nature and a weird silence. You can only hear the sound of a nearby water fountain. Some birds, the wind that moves leaves. Apart for that nothing but silence.
The life goes on, and the bells of the small church located in village’s entrance are ready to sing again.
the small chapel nearby village entrance
closeup of an ivy climbing on the old walls
a group of wrecks