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Driven 3707 km from Berlin to Italy and back again. Our rented Seat Leon served us well.

We decide to head north, with a break in Oberfranken, when I got tired http://www.motel-hormersdorf.de

The higher you go, the more you can see.
 


 


 
Still, no sign of George Clooney or his villa.

With a bit of sunshine, it looks better – Lenno, on the west edge of Lake Como.
 
 
Nice day for a walk in the hills behind Menaggio
 

First impressions of Lake Como on a rainy day in Menaggio
 

Great trip to Milano to Pirelli Hangar Bicocca
 


 

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.
 


 
Kim just landed from flying around the exhibition.
 


 
Permanent Anselm Kiefer exhibit
 

 
Gerhild gives some enthusiastic Italian children a German lesson.
 

 


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

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.

Palazzo Te

 


 

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.
 

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.
 

Urbino – as in the ARD detective film
 


 

Walk along the beach to see the flamingos

A flamingo
 

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

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
 

Gerhild on the beach near Ravenna
 

Jazz with the nice Americans
 

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).

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
 

Vicenza
 


 


 Super silver shoes for the jazz festival in Vicenza
 


 


 


 


 


 Jazz with aperativi high over the rooves of Vicenza
 

Verona’s offical Romeo & Juliet balcony.
 

 
How romantic.
 


 
Hotel Trieste in Verona is well guarded.
 

Young Italian girls on old Verona bridge
 

Aperol Spritz as apperitivi
 

Our hotel receptionist
 

Hotel Trieste in Verona
 

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.

http://youtu.be/_e41BWQrOdg

Lago di Garda
 


 A little something before dinner.
 


 Whoops! Salò.
 


 
Our very nice bed and breakfast. Il vecchio Mulino.

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.
 

Walking through the woods in the Sella valley.

 


 


 


 


 
Gelateria with futurism style staircase in Rovereto.
 


 
All children are angels in Italy.
 

ARTE Sella