Our Adventures – Italy 2016

Gerhild & Kims Italobloggo 2016

Ital_flag The plan

Johann_Heinrich_Wilhelm_Tischbein_007 Goethe’s italienische Reise Text.

Everything on one page.
or
One day at a time.

Berlin nach München

5 Stunden plus Pausen

Childhood playmates – Gerhild’s cousins Claudius & Gerd

1 May – Munich to Arte Sella

4.5 hours driving plus breaks

Apartment for 2 nights.

3 May – Sella Valley

Walking through the woods in the Sella valley.

Gelateria with futurism style staircase in Rovereto.

All children are angels in Italy.

4 May – Rovereto

The MART museum in Rovereto. Guiseppe Penone sculpture.

Mussolini in a spin.

Acacia thorns.

Casa d’arte futurista depero

Workers (and Gerhild)

Hat shop in Rovereto.

5 May – Salò

Lago di Garda

A little something before dinner.

Whoops! Salò.

Our very nice bed and breakfast. Il vecchio Mulino.

6 May – Salò, Il vittoriale degli italiani

Breakfast on the balcony.

André Heller’s garden

Il vittoriale degli italiani. A very popular poet, soldier and friend of Mussolini, who had a warship in his garden and loved beautiful women.

7 May – Verona

Young Italian girls on old Verona bridge

Aperol Spritz as apperitivi

Our hotel receptionist

Hotel Trieste in Verona

8 May – Verona

Verona’s offical Romeo & Juliet balcony.

How romantic.

Hotel Trieste in Verona is well guarded.

9 May – Vicenza

Vicenza

Super silver shoes for the jazz festival in Vicenza

Jazz with aperativi high over the rooves of Vicenza

10 May – Venice

Day trip on the train to Venice

Gondola garage

Hi mum!

Well hello!

Abbey Road, Venice style

Gondola jam

One sad lion and three girls too tired even for a selfie

11 May – Vicenza

Palladio’s Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza – Harry Potter’s Diagon alley built in the 16th century

Welcome to Ravenna

Ostello Galletti Abiosi is really nice (and good value).

12 May – Ravenna

Gerhild on the beach near Ravenna

Jazz with the nice Americans

13 May – Ravenna

Old mosaic in the Basilica of Sant Apollinare Nuovo

Old mosaic in the Basilica of San Vitale

New mosaic in the Ravenna Art Museum

Nother new mosaic

We went to the laundrette in Ravenna

Kim working hard in the courtyard of Ostello Galletti Abbiosi

14 May – Lido degli Estensi (Po delta)

Great bike ride through the wetlands next to Valli di Comacchio

One of hundreds of fishing lodges – trabucco

Clever Italian style bike map

Comacchio

The ecologically embarassing drone’s eye view

15 May – Riserva Naturale Sacca di Bellocchio (Po delta)

Walk along the beach to see the flamingos

A flamingo

17 May – Chianti Sculpture Park

The Chianti Sculpture Park. Beautiful landscape, bumpy drive, interesting sculptures.

Italian marble, English man, African granite.

Because one is not enough.

They have been waiting a long time to get in.

Pleased to meet you Mr. Hitchcock.

Mmmmmm, these trees smell great.

18 May – San Gimignano

My tower is bigger than your tower!

The wealthy Campatelli family.

Their palazzo (and tower) were very interesting.

The Toscan landscape from the family dining room.

All of the family now have to help with the shop.

Piazza Cisterna when most of the pilgrims have gone.

At the moment you take the ferry from Sulzano to Monte Isola.

Christo thinks you should walk (on water). http://www.thefloatingpiers.com

They are working on it, but haven’t got the paint out yet.

Nice place for lunch.

Fish from the lake.

21 May – Bergamo

Gerhild gives some enthusiastic Italian children a German lesson.

Great view from the top. You can see Milan on the horizon.

22 May – Pirelli Hangar Bicocca Milano

Great trip to Milano to Pirelli Hangar Bicocca

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Fly agaric. Carsten Höller likes to play with this as in Berlin.

Quite right, that isn’t Gerhild, but as we were both flying at the same time, I had to borrow this image to show the principle.

Flying

Kim just landed from flying around the exhibition.

Permanent Anselm Kiefer exhibit

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