admin May 12th, 2007
Monte Adone is located in the beginning of “Appennino Bolognese” (mountains south of Bologna). It is very close to the main town of Bologna, just a few km, and it’s still a relatively quiet place. We started to climb upon it from a place called “Badolo”.
As you can see the path is narrow and steep, and in some points you have a ravine just on your side: so it is recommended only to people who don’t have vertigo!
The sight is wonderful as you can see. A pity that day there was a bit of mist, but in any case you can see how high we are!
Pictured above instead a uninvited guest we med along the road… I even managed to take a portrait of this curious lizard! 
At last we were on top - were we could admire those curious rock shapes. I don’t know their origins, but still they look cool!
In this other pictures you can see them better. Really weird! seems like someone made them on purpose 
admin May 3rd, 2007
Yes you read it right… in the Black Forest, Germany, nearby the town of Triberg (that can be considered the home of the cuckoo clocks) there’s a man that made of his own house (typical bavarian style) a sort of giant cuckoo clock, so big that (listening to his own words) it is the biggest of the world…!
Indeed, as you can see looking at the picture below, it is very big!
As always, the style is really wonderful…with red flowers hanging everywhere around the walls. We stood there waiting to see the big bird coming out from the door… 
and there it is! to be honest in the picture you can’t see it very well, and he was even making a crap sound. Yes, honestly it didn’t impress us very much, we started to laugh more than else!
Anyway… if you happen to travel nearby Triberg, might be worth a visit!
admin April 29th, 2007
I’ve already talked about Gengenbach, an old medieval village very well mantained, but I found in my photo archive some more interesting images, so I’ve decided to post a quick overview. Starting from this wonderful old well in wood/stone (the flowers fit in really well!):
Below instead there’s one of the town main gates. The town is all surrounded by walls indeed. That tower has even a working clock! Note also the main gate grid … maybe once there was even a castle drawbridge!
But what is really amazing, are the buildings themselves! Everywhere there are pastel colours, flowers hanging out from terraces and in the streets, nearby benches. Below you can see the main square:
And those other houses below, aren’t they beautiful? you can also spot another small well hidden well behind those flowers…
And this angle is something magic! it seems that the time never passed… we found yet another well (or water pump), a tower in the background and of course the classic green present in all the german towns.
The last picture is probably the most curious: it is a sort of resume, painted on a the wall of a townhouse, of Gegenbach’s past history, with some dates…. the only thing I was able to understand for sure was the great fire in 1689 that burned most of the town, which was later rebuild in the year 1700. They rebuilt it really well!
