admin July 5th, 2007
Pontremoli is a nice old town in the “Lunigiana”, a zone of Tuscany. It is not far from the famous “Cinque Terre” national park, and also near many other interesting places like Lucca, Viareggio, and so on.
It is also close to where we live now, so a sunday of december we decided to take a short trip there. We arrived and the feeble winter sun was lighting the town in a wonderful way. We walked up to a hill where you can see the whole town, and someone had hang up some clothes to dry them. I decided to take a picture of it, the one you can see above.
I like the result very much. It has a sort of “old feeling” on it, typical of the 1960-70 years. Old houses, the climate of desperation and poverty after the world war, where everyone had to restart their lives from zero.
admin May 31st, 2007
The pictures in this post comes from a well-furnished Christmas shop, as you can see, that is located in the middle of the small town of Oberammergau, about which I already talked in the past. It’s funny because those pictures are dating back to August 2004!
Indeed, that shop sells Christmas stuff and wooden statues, etc during all the year !
The north-european cities, in particular the ones of Austria, with Salisburg, Innsbruck and Vienna, have a long tradition about Christmas street markets and in general of Christmas-related objects. Recently we visited Velden, on the coast of the big lake Wörthersee, and even if it is a medium-sized town, there was a nice street market along the main road that were selling this kind of stuff.
admin May 20th, 2007
A very cool itinerary for the lovers of nature and walking is the “Acquacheta Waterfalls” one. They’re located nearby “Forlì-Cesena” in the tusco-emilian mountains called “Appennini”. We went there in may 2003, and I’m sure all of you remember how hot was that year! However the course is made for the most part from shadowed paths and a thick green vegetation (as you can admire in the photos below, depicting the beginning of the way).
a stoned path lead us into the beginning of the journey…
on the left there’s already the river, even if in the picture it’s hidden
The route is not hard at all, goes up slightly but you can do it (starting from the town of S.Benedetto in Alpe) in about 2 hours.
The cool thing about the route is that the path borders the river for most of it, and so you have the impression of walking side by side with the river itself.
The forest is made of beeches, oaks and chestnuts, typical of the “Foreste Casentinesi”. The green of their foliage is simply wonderful and adds a sort of magic to the place.
A wooden bridge that you’ll encounter during your way.
A stone house we met during the route, I don’t remember anymore if it was just an abandoned house, or a shelter of some kind.