tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70479515998258877532024-03-18T09:25:32.154+01:00TravelMarxa sabbatical year in Italy and beyondTravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.comBlogger1437125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-64961738426275895052024-03-13T15:29:00.005+01:002024-03-15T09:27:24.865+01:00Travelmarx Spring 2024 Playlist – Anti-Rage Time<div><br /></div><img border="0" data-original-height="1462" data-original-width="1464" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8gqxz4AeNUTm6xOSmTP94A8-8E1oLS2RxMsl02VDbP6RwwtI-SrZ15LnPioR8HI7_WhDoaY3Ss35BgCs3PbFMZH2khoASyAVM5CSjSAfZFEuf7NLjSHJ92TyhZP4Gwyxknkpa9k1bDCEvhMSJ-ogqYlE2EuBzL2hGPg5Ql9sL-NIkvXxarf_hfPfy_g/s320/36%20album%20covers%20for%20Travelmarx%20Playlist%20Spring%202024.png" style="color: #0000ee; text-align: center;" width="320" /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">36 album covers for Travelmarx Spring 2024 Playlist - Anti-Rage Time<br /></span><div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">O</span>ur Spring Spotify playlist (<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2mJ2Ie2vlAEpeWFbOn9ave?si=9869c236094242c0">link</a>) is dedicated to “anti-rage”. We’ve seen too many stories in the news dealing with rage (justified or not) and wondered if there was an opposite term. There doesn’t seem to be and when I asked my friendly AI chat bot it said: ““anti-rage” is not commonly used or recognized in the English language. The concept of ‘anti-rage’ could potentially refer to a state of calmness, tranquility, or peace, which would be the opposite of rage.” We like that. <br /><br />The playlist has 36 tracks released between 1966 to 2023. Out of shear laziness, we arranged the track in chronological order. <br /><br />1966 Astrud Gilberto – “Berimbau” <br />1976 Lou Reed – “Charley's Girl” <br />2004 Jake Fior – “For Lovers”</div><div>2007 Lonely Drifter Karen – “The Owl Moans Low”</div><div>2008 Neko Case – “At Last”</div><div>2008 Sophie Hunger – “Shape”</div><div><br />2009 Matias Aguayo – “Rollerskate”</div><div>2009 Neko Case – “Magpie to the Morning”</div><div>2011 John Stammers – “Idle I’m”</div><div>2012 John Maus – “The Law (2003)”</div><div>2012 Lawrence of Arabia – “The Listening Times”</div><div>2012 Soko – “I Just Want to Make It New with You”</div><div><br />2013 The Magnetic North – “Betty Corrigall”</div><div>2014 Liz Green – “River Runs Deep”</div><div>2015 Hindi Zahra – “Can We Dance?”</div><div>2015 Papooz – “Ulysses and the Sea”</div><div>2015 Vashti Bunyan – “Train Song”</div><div>2016 case/lang/veirs – “Greens of June”</div><div><br />2016 Papooz – “Ann Wants to Dance”</div><div>2016 Ultimate Painting – “Lead the Way”</div><div>2016 Waldeck – “Una volta”</div><div>2016 Weval – “You Made It (Part 1)”</div><div>2017 Gabriel Garzón-Montano – Fruitflies</div><div>2021 Aaron Frazer – If I Got It (Your Love Brought It)</div><div><br />2021 trentemøller, Tricky – “No One Quite Like You”</div><div>2022 Alela Diane – “Paloma" <br />2022 Danielle Ponder – “So Long”</div><div>2022 Kendra Morris – “Dry" <br />2022 Maxwell Farrington – “I Had It All”</div><div>2022 Nev Cottee – “The Ring”</div><div><br />2022 Panamá 77 – “Patria" <br />2023 Barry Can’t Swim – “Deadbeat Gospel”</div><div>2023 Jon Kennedy – “Monsters”</div><div>2023 Loverman – “Differences Aside”</div><div>2023 The Clientele – “Blue Over Blue”</div><div>2023 The Leisure Society, Brian Eno – “Brave Are the Waves”</div>TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com0Seattle, WA, USA47.6061389 -122.332848119.295905063821152 -157.4890981 75.916372736178843 -87.1765981tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-63281651653058745302024-03-07T17:55:00.002+01:002024-03-08T07:40:25.266+01:00Giogo Alto Glacier (Hochjochferner) – Light and Shadow<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja1jF69NSex3AWgfh4qIgTxj-XVb3YTljNGyuIuYqxhz5GI1DfnhTZBo04glZNkaeBpz9seTxEfqFlJ4O6_ujansVkJixppDcXO5O2amr7QDqgLdPznRFbzGT9TE8oDe9Nyo6yvcK3W4YyjbIbsf_TlefhCsw9RCEbRW7-lG9N3P5RDRuAXGJL-dmUIg/s4032/Ghiacciaio%20di%20Giogo%20Alto.jpeg"><img alt="Ghiacciaio di Giogo Alto - Shadow and Light" border="0" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja1jF69NSex3AWgfh4qIgTxj-XVb3YTljNGyuIuYqxhz5GI1DfnhTZBo04glZNkaeBpz9seTxEfqFlJ4O6_ujansVkJixppDcXO5O2amr7QDqgLdPznRFbzGT9TE8oDe9Nyo6yvcK3W4YyjbIbsf_TlefhCsw9RCEbRW7-lG9N3P5RDRuAXGJL-dmUIg/w262-h197/Ghiacciaio%20di%20Giogo%20Alto.jpeg" title="Ghiacciaio di Giogo Alto - Shadow and Light" width="262" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQCe13wgOgVF3FCQ1-ZNIjfrMoaagEUETrC1600wGcZCywO2RSZyEN_Nkp3a8rh2x30a3Hc9lYqaO0s_cKoMc1xXd5_Ge_dq1ItNMwt_Ah0Hkm-GLLDeKqyPOh2NkOBqu5_4UXU53eKkcnejSw77RYeIcNV6NxEgAI7QOKituJ2aY98Qw0uihfFCvdZA/s3566/Ghiacciaio%20di%20Giogo%20Alto%20-%20on%20chairlift%20with%20Giogo%20Alto%20on%20the%20left.JPG"><img alt="Ghiacciaio di Giogo Alto - on chairlift with Giogo Alto on the left" border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQCe13wgOgVF3FCQ1-ZNIjfrMoaagEUETrC1600wGcZCywO2RSZyEN_Nkp3a8rh2x30a3Hc9lYqaO0s_cKoMc1xXd5_Ge_dq1ItNMwt_Ah0Hkm-GLLDeKqyPOh2NkOBqu5_4UXU53eKkcnejSw77RYeIcNV6NxEgAI7QOKituJ2aY98Qw0uihfFCvdZA/w261-h196/Ghiacciaio%20di%20Giogo%20Alto%20-%20on%20chairlift%20with%20Giogo%20Alto%20on%20the%20left.JPG" title="Ghiacciaio di Giogo Alto - on chairlift with Giogo Alto on the left" width="261" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ghiacciaio di Giogo Alto - Shadow and Light</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"> W</span>e visited the Giogo Alto Glacier (in Italian <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghiacciaio_di_Giogo_Alto"><i>Ghiacciaio del Giogo Alto</i></a>, in German <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochjochferner"><i>Hochjochferner</i></a>) recently on a ski in the Val Senales. We stayed two nights in Maso Corto at 2,000 m (6,562 ft) - which is at the head of Val Senales, and one night in <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/X63KxBQ5RztmmvQu6">Rifugio Bella Vista</a> (Gasthof / Schutzhaus Schöne Aussicht) at 2,845 m (9,334 feet), above Maso Corto.<br /><br />Skiing on the glacier was beautiful, with few people. The play of light - especially with fog and passing clouds was otherworldly. But we were racked with a bit of guilt. Should we be skiing on this retreating glacier? <br /><br />To reach Rifugio Bella Vista you go up the Hintereis ski lift (<a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/T5eQg1JF8ZyWc9YA9">loc</a>) and instead of going all the way down the ski run, you hang a right. The position of the <i>rifugio</i> seemed odd at first. Later, while waiting for dinner at the <i>rifugio</i> we looked at all the photos of the glacier and how it has retreated over the years and then it became clear. At one time, the <i>rifugio</i> sat at the edge of the glacier, which has now retreated almost a kilometer away. In winter of course, you can’t perceive this because everything is covered in snow – at least for now. We would like to return in the summer and get a view of this glacier, like we did with the Presena Glacier (see <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2023/08/presena-glacier-summer-visit-to-covered.html"><i>Presena Glacier – A summer visit to the covered glacier</i></a>). We heard that like Presena, the Giogo Alto Glacier is covered in the summer though we couldn’t confirm it ourselves. <br /><br />Summer skiing on the Giogo Alto glacier was stopped in 2013. <br /><br />Nearby the glacier is the site where <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi">Ötzi</a> was found. Ötzi the Iceman is the natural mummy of a man who lived between 3350 and 3105 BC and whose remains were discovered on 19 September 1991. The name of the mountain range Ötztal Alps (<i>Alpi Venoste</i> in Italian) lends its name to the mummy, which can be seen in a museum dedicated to him in Bolzano. We first learned of Ötzi in 2008 on a visit to Bolzano. (See <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2008/06/south-tyrol-museum-of-archaelogical.html"><i>The South Tyrol Museum of Archaeological – Ötzi’s Home</i></a>.) <div><br /></div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil-pye3pk8vlDaSFkSGeotrnptDqrAb9QSeN2iY6Iqwpp1vnaIPX-aiX6pRW2NKrknieZS-jRwVhbQwvkJwVfKUWJMQYpd-_AksLyxvPTRT-NSQ-hUw1sQFcNJ9sWc39IUQNC9njxlE5qBxBqZjILm5M6WV-wP4iQh2seH3Dq0EKDIJ83YQbPBww08qg/s4032/A%20room%20in%20Rifugio%20Bella%20Vista.JPG"><img alt="A room in Rifugio Bella Vista" border="0" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil-pye3pk8vlDaSFkSGeotrnptDqrAb9QSeN2iY6Iqwpp1vnaIPX-aiX6pRW2NKrknieZS-jRwVhbQwvkJwVfKUWJMQYpd-_AksLyxvPTRT-NSQ-hUw1sQFcNJ9sWc39IUQNC9njxlE5qBxBqZjILm5M6WV-wP4iQh2seH3Dq0EKDIJ83YQbPBww08qg/w188-h141/A%20room%20in%20Rifugio%20Bella%20Vista.JPG" title="A room in Rifugio Bella Vista" width="188" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipY90DFiT5CRm0Y5GhzGonr58Ez3duyQDB_IuwGaL93Jcz_1tppqhh_RIiOBClMDjE9hWr8B2-9xy4w0PpIvQTdSUVU1d6sHlIyYfs0kinW3QQOBRer7dzrG3qPeNc_OuzILy3VlQYr2nKlY-ARjngNj0sYhAhB_ze6PLSsz9P-pCv_b4aG6HY0-z16g/s4032/Rifugio%20Bella%20Vista%20in%20a%20foggy%20white-out%20conditions.JPG"><img alt="Rifugio Bella Vista in a foggy white-out conditions" border="0" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipY90DFiT5CRm0Y5GhzGonr58Ez3duyQDB_IuwGaL93Jcz_1tppqhh_RIiOBClMDjE9hWr8B2-9xy4w0PpIvQTdSUVU1d6sHlIyYfs0kinW3QQOBRer7dzrG3qPeNc_OuzILy3VlQYr2nKlY-ARjngNj0sYhAhB_ze6PLSsz9P-pCv_b4aG6HY0-z16g/w190-h142/Rifugio%20Bella%20Vista%20in%20a%20foggy%20white-out%20conditions.JPG" title="Rifugio Bella Vista in a foggy white-out conditions" width="190" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4mnK6XcVQ5TtMYu1HuhluAEy5A5NWuVP6nWRG9oirFYxLnM-psWYgAgJEGjvisA8Z_3PJhKobWRfJuUkcg-j7WuF99zyCj_3m4E8bDjMEXoA5nKv6jnUK2JcMFvEJRjlpUzx220_iCd_PV6rQlTa9sUPrfO6xosNMlgrP9Xg8wcFB2viQpLy__qxq2A/s4032/Grawand%20Hotel.JPG"><img alt="Grawand Hotel - sits above the glacier" border="0" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4mnK6XcVQ5TtMYu1HuhluAEy5A5NWuVP6nWRG9oirFYxLnM-psWYgAgJEGjvisA8Z_3PJhKobWRfJuUkcg-j7WuF99zyCj_3m4E8bDjMEXoA5nKv6jnUK2JcMFvEJRjlpUzx220_iCd_PV6rQlTa9sUPrfO6xosNMlgrP9Xg8wcFB2viQpLy__qxq2A/w188-h141/Grawand%20Hotel.JPG" title="Grawand Hotel - sits above the glacier" width="188" /></a><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: A room in Rifugio Bella Vista.<br />Center: Rifugio Bella Vista in winter fog, sitting on the hill.<br />Right: Nearby by Grawand Hotel, the highest situated hotel in Europe.<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidYQDgtf1rJHA7Bc-i9pcDPcHAhdQX7WZhzLOaPm_uRmQfUgxO3zxGui7O37sk1zIl8c7AWuhUgprhKGwEw-QIZYQn9HZPTj-VytaLeL1nuRHM64bEFfcdN2PzvbmTGwOHwY0Avu_Q7dg8_rcTfEZrNwrjQ6ZgQVJ9Iw3ZTab4YVx6kn512zxJUwYZ1A/s4032/Arriving%20at%20the%20top%20of%20the%20Grawand%20cable%20car%20and%20entering%20on%20to%20the%20top%20of%20the%20Giogo%20Alto%20Glacier.jpeg"><img alt="Arriving at the top of the Grawand cable car and entering on to the top of the Giogo Alto Glacier" border="0" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidYQDgtf1rJHA7Bc-i9pcDPcHAhdQX7WZhzLOaPm_uRmQfUgxO3zxGui7O37sk1zIl8c7AWuhUgprhKGwEw-QIZYQn9HZPTj-VytaLeL1nuRHM64bEFfcdN2PzvbmTGwOHwY0Avu_Q7dg8_rcTfEZrNwrjQ6ZgQVJ9Iw3ZTab4YVx6kn512zxJUwYZ1A/w192-h144/Arriving%20at%20the%20top%20of%20the%20Grawand%20cable%20car%20and%20entering%20on%20to%20the%20top%20of%20the%20Giogo%20Alto%20Glacier.jpeg" title="Arriving at the top of the Grawand cable car and entering on to the top of the Giogo Alto Glacier" width="192" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWU9cy9Jxm_uhVQn-SYT3jpcLQ-1VqVo9fFnGqe_HEhfFZNpSilL7ZFnOdrjieIUtjSEqv9Rkv_L6w-y3_hjcowOqVetIvo4T1b5rn2VuCM6l-SZzI_ZwAeXiGXXFfNqTrdydGD-XEEQwqmCdxmyXCVeyqQoULGc4WAd55_dXSrNE3uuFAeQ6sKLFuTA/s4032/Ghiacciaio%20di%20Giogo%20Alto%20-%20chairlifts%20to%20Grawand%20Hotel.JPG"><img alt="Ghiacciaio di Giogo Alto - chairlifts to Grawand Hotel" border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWU9cy9Jxm_uhVQn-SYT3jpcLQ-1VqVo9fFnGqe_HEhfFZNpSilL7ZFnOdrjieIUtjSEqv9Rkv_L6w-y3_hjcowOqVetIvo4T1b5rn2VuCM6l-SZzI_ZwAeXiGXXFfNqTrdydGD-XEEQwqmCdxmyXCVeyqQoULGc4WAd55_dXSrNE3uuFAeQ6sKLFuTA/w190-h143/Ghiacciaio%20di%20Giogo%20Alto%20-%20chairlifts%20to%20Grawand%20Hotel.JPG" title="Ghiacciaio di Giogo Alto - chairlifts to Grawand Hotel" width="190" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKQE9WtnLNu2DQnZlc6Ol2VxKDhQYE76ywTv-qDFnAjuLSzNVi0Fjv9rKftKg0HVnpo2pfAVKEFY8UYihkOyuOrhl3gXCRA0dtWjQaUFdToEmfftorZPYEYS6XlyExTe3e97yMYoTk1IF0XA0q8lEZ-1IsU0f_noiqvwm8h8w_LPFKhiqqI27hCq3-Aw/s4032/Ghiacciaio%20di%20Giogo%20Alto%20-%20skiing%20down.JPG"><img alt="Ghiacciaio di Giogo Alto - skiing down" border="0" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKQE9WtnLNu2DQnZlc6Ol2VxKDhQYE76ywTv-qDFnAjuLSzNVi0Fjv9rKftKg0HVnpo2pfAVKEFY8UYihkOyuOrhl3gXCRA0dtWjQaUFdToEmfftorZPYEYS6XlyExTe3e97yMYoTk1IF0XA0q8lEZ-1IsU0f_noiqvwm8h8w_LPFKhiqqI27hCq3-Aw/w189-h142/Ghiacciaio%20di%20Giogo%20Alto%20-%20skiing%20down.JPG" title="Ghiacciaio di Giogo Alto - skiing down" width="189" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: Arriving at top of the glacier from the cable car originating in Maso Corto. 1 km vertical distance.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Center: Chairlifts that run up the side of the glacier with Grawand Hotel at the top.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Right: Skiing down the glacier in fog. Austrian border is just a few meters away.<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnaSby0RSPToYPpA-HhEYxweAtdu_CZGJa9C7kOyd_a5lwZ4MDyr1vhKqOhNDFotMfsoqR6WVzambDoNv6xJxzQq7k0yl4tC5Yyj6EjhjSx_2kZ4yM0S_UI-aslyWbJOSdERbYHe9GSK9aUvspXYG0C_eYSIPNhPPdrw_uoGU9nEZraBKnplnsfuyZ4A/s4080/Chamois%20stew%20with%20potatoes%20and%20onions%20-%20Rifugio%20Bella%20Vista%20Lunch.jpg"><img alt="Chamois stew with potatoes and onions - Rifugio Bella Vista Lunch" border="0" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnaSby0RSPToYPpA-HhEYxweAtdu_CZGJa9C7kOyd_a5lwZ4MDyr1vhKqOhNDFotMfsoqR6WVzambDoNv6xJxzQq7k0yl4tC5Yyj6EjhjSx_2kZ4yM0S_UI-aslyWbJOSdERbYHe9GSK9aUvspXYG0C_eYSIPNhPPdrw_uoGU9nEZraBKnplnsfuyZ4A/w191-h144/Chamois%20stew%20with%20potatoes%20and%20onions%20-%20Rifugio%20Bella%20Vista%20Lunch.jpg" title="Chamois stew with potatoes and onions - Rifugio Bella Vista Lunch" width="191" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF-aQdGA5VsHy018OEOPPxNjdNfQLsmGheowaFUmgQMZQdahFFRIgAKNXSZcTZRRQJDxrOn4S5H0eFH5-LmoUrlY-XrSMLjL-WcRRSYrCe_gMOAEP_6Jy-poWp5xX7_ZlwQOC7Al3mX1EISj58u4Zct7u2qWJAnjv8XuEo3ijZWLZjmd4C7vzaPR2cBQ/s4080/Rifugio%20Bella%20Vista%20dinner.jpg"><img alt="Rifugio Bella Vista dinner" border="0" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF-aQdGA5VsHy018OEOPPxNjdNfQLsmGheowaFUmgQMZQdahFFRIgAKNXSZcTZRRQJDxrOn4S5H0eFH5-LmoUrlY-XrSMLjL-WcRRSYrCe_gMOAEP_6Jy-poWp5xX7_ZlwQOC7Al3mX1EISj58u4Zct7u2qWJAnjv8XuEo3ijZWLZjmd4C7vzaPR2cBQ/w191-h144/Rifugio%20Bella%20Vista%20dinner.jpg" title="Rifugio Bella Vista dinner" width="191" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-w5YjDA_ERQZgt_vKC5xv2OpfeXOXJiA4ft220ClI7ue1jHbYPKuPk82hxdvMc-EXOpICf0RTC1O-ucgGx9LmaiQLG_ncPTCYS5zoO-IJlEEYf2nz_s6BxCYDXYSDHOzQR4IMyN00zcM5muKxcq59-H6vFf_PLpA5Cjj_k95i4OTfA9L4j4fLsM009w/s4080/Rifugio%20Bella%20Vista%20strudel.jpg"><img alt="Rifugio Bella Vista strudel" border="0" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-w5YjDA_ERQZgt_vKC5xv2OpfeXOXJiA4ft220ClI7ue1jHbYPKuPk82hxdvMc-EXOpICf0RTC1O-ucgGx9LmaiQLG_ncPTCYS5zoO-IJlEEYf2nz_s6BxCYDXYSDHOzQR4IMyN00zcM5muKxcq59-H6vFf_PLpA5Cjj_k95i4OTfA9L4j4fLsM009w/w191-h144/Rifugio%20Bella%20Vista%20strudel.jpg" title="Rifugio Bella Vista strudel" width="191" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: Lunch at Rifugio Bella Vista, a chamois stew.<br />Center: Dinner at Rifugio Bella Vista.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Right: Always strudel is to be had.<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6U4_jQE1fW0peRloBndHOfCQ0iCN1M2hdYAeDsBEkRGQrLprl5Li_D_txpXvdm4u3jVngckZCiRq0b8PV_v0Rtl8xO0jg14T8GXj4tdi4PrIP5oN62VtAW7Qqlj5p861dp0J67jbfZdYL2HiE8MIfDDrLHjFegwufW-VWgVYyTz7w20bmJ3rhCetrtQ/s4032/In%20the%20valley%20at%20Maso%20Corto%20-%20a%20monument%20celebrating%20the%20building%20of%20the%20ski%20infrastructure.JPG"><img alt="In the valley at Maso Corto - a monument celebrating the building of the ski infrastructure" border="0" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6U4_jQE1fW0peRloBndHOfCQ0iCN1M2hdYAeDsBEkRGQrLprl5Li_D_txpXvdm4u3jVngckZCiRq0b8PV_v0Rtl8xO0jg14T8GXj4tdi4PrIP5oN62VtAW7Qqlj5p861dp0J67jbfZdYL2HiE8MIfDDrLHjFegwufW-VWgVYyTz7w20bmJ3rhCetrtQ/w163-h218/In%20the%20valley%20at%20Maso%20Corto%20-%20a%20monument%20celebrating%20the%20building%20of%20the%20ski%20infrastructure.JPG" title="In the valley at Maso Corto - a monument celebrating the building of the ski infrastructure" width="163" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Maso Corto sculpture dedicated to those who built ski infrastructure?<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com0Località Maso Corto, 12, 39020 Senales BZ, Italy46.7700284 10.797397318.459794563821156 -24.3588527 75.080262236178839 45.9536473tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-88958435715155614262024-03-05T09:46:00.001+01:002024-03-05T09:46:07.627+01:00Tavola or Tavolo – Reflection on Missed Years of Language Learning <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/03/tavola-or-tavolo-reflection-on-missed-years-of-language-learning.html#backstory">Backstory</a> ~ <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/03/tavola-or-tavolo-reflection-on-missed-years-of-language-learning.html#lesson">Mini lesson</a> ~ <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/03/tavola-or-tavolo-reflection-on-missed-years-of-language-learning.html#examples">Examples</a></div> <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLLGG5EmX0ViQZCrpiPfJWcZsQsANB6ugIYOwSovpZXBKbddiu-H216sMSFgBO0a1LPDX0KSpZE6fAy6CtIv3VU_LoqvFticCwWnLjcruutXe_VoTTdzbyvAVCfGl27HahHStfeYsBjUmrbmAxNt5jfkP5GSGty6oQGY3hY3Og_1DJSOZbiAfulSmn9w/s4032/Front%20cover%20of%20Il%20Grande%20Libro%20pre%20Scolare.jpg"><img alt="Front cover of Il Grande Libro pre Scolare" border="0" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLLGG5EmX0ViQZCrpiPfJWcZsQsANB6ugIYOwSovpZXBKbddiu-H216sMSFgBO0a1LPDX0KSpZE6fAy6CtIv3VU_LoqvFticCwWnLjcruutXe_VoTTdzbyvAVCfGl27HahHStfeYsBjUmrbmAxNt5jfkP5GSGty6oQGY3hY3Og_1DJSOZbiAfulSmn9w/w127-h170/Front%20cover%20of%20Il%20Grande%20Libro%20pre%20Scolare.jpg" title="Front cover of Il Grande Libro pre Scolare" width="127" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNP2kI6kOo_MDZFRpb90oxpko7_ycn3Tk1JZJmcG923WwX5FVIj0hLNLSBSk_v1xx9JH2_o-H4Wxbddey8zrQgNIooM6RAAV7pJfRH6LP8MQqeLcEivY2InOKEnKp0CRF_4SsQrc8KjKoOw4wKX5XCCZYNJ-FGA_gE6ghHB0WQ5QyUhw06g6KyvhzuiA/s4032/Il%20Grande%20Libro%20pre%20Scolare%20with%20Tavola.jpg"><img alt="Il Grande Libro pre Scolare with Tavola" border="0" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNP2kI6kOo_MDZFRpb90oxpko7_ycn3Tk1JZJmcG923WwX5FVIj0hLNLSBSk_v1xx9JH2_o-H4Wxbddey8zrQgNIooM6RAAV7pJfRH6LP8MQqeLcEivY2InOKEnKp0CRF_4SsQrc8KjKoOw4wKX5XCCZYNJ-FGA_gE6ghHB0WQ5QyUhw06g6KyvhzuiA/w226-h170/Il%20Grande%20Libro%20pre%20Scolare%20with%20Tavola.jpg" title="Il Grande Libro pre Scolare with Tavola" width="226" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBUYU4lkATHpa6SgLCK3-hCzVdHWWDcktXKmsBc6LAQqSXxGaRdsW2BwwqyjCylOEM6r9ZBKHr0iQuNBVnYV3Zb01zl0qQxqPIo_f4tP1zYhoijGk5fiK5IShburnS8SHvSQvAzi6mPWy57XIQAO9ejDAPy19N5-ux_A5ZFv9MA7RqzAbjWLwtcm_dRw/s4032/Il%20Grande%20Libro%20pre%20Scolare%20with%20Tavolo.jpg"><img alt="Il Grande Libro pre Scolare with Tavolo" border="0" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBUYU4lkATHpa6SgLCK3-hCzVdHWWDcktXKmsBc6LAQqSXxGaRdsW2BwwqyjCylOEM6r9ZBKHr0iQuNBVnYV3Zb01zl0qQxqPIo_f4tP1zYhoijGk5fiK5IShburnS8SHvSQvAzi6mPWy57XIQAO9ejDAPy19N5-ux_A5ZFv9MA7RqzAbjWLwtcm_dRw/w226-h170/Il%20Grande%20Libro%20pre%20Scolare%20with%20Tavolo.jpg" title="Il Grande Libro pre Scolare with Tavolo" width="226" /></a><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Il Grande Libro pre Scolare - Vado in Prima cover and two sample page showing "tavola" and "tavolo".</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><h3 id="backstory" style="text-align: left;">Backstory </h3><br />We spent a long weekend with our friends and their 4-year-old who is just starting to read in Italian. To that end, his parents surround him with books and games to help. One book I picked up was called “<i>Il Grande Libro pre Scolare</i>”. I couldn’t resist flipping through it and seeing if I could get through some of the puzzles and games. In the section with pictures and words (broken into syllables), I saw an image of a table set for eating and just an empty table, demonstrating the words <i>tavola</i> and <i>tavolo</i>, respectively. <br /><br />At that point, it kind of hit me how as an adult we struggle to learn languages because of the “missed” years of learning that this 4-year-old is getting with books like this. I’ve struggled countless times to remember is it <i>tavola </i>(with an A) or <i>tavolo </i>(with an O)? They both mean table, but which one you use depends on context. Seeing the set table for <i>tavola</i> and the “un-set” or plain table for <i>tavolo</i> is a great visual cue that I didn’t think about until seeing this book.<br /><br /><h3 id="lesson" style="text-align: left;">Mini lesson </h3><br />In Italian, both <i>tavolo</i> and <i>tavola</i> can be translated as "table" in English, but they are used in different contexts. <br /><br /><i><b>Tavolo</b></i> (masculine, plural: <i>tavoli</i>) is the generic word for table, referring to the piece of furniture found in homes and offices. For example, a big table is called "<i>un grande tavolo</i>" and a small table is called "<i>un piccolo tavolo</i>" or "<i>tavolino</i>", literally “little table” or a really big table "<i>tavolone</i>". "<i>Tavolo</i>" is also used when reserving a table at a restaurant or referring to table service. <br /><br /><i><b>Tavola</b></i> (feminine, plural: <b>tavole</b>) is used when referring to a table that is set for a meal. For example, "<i>Bambini, a tavola! La polenta è pronta!</i>" translates to "Kids, (come) to the table! The polenta is ready!" - this is Bergamo after all. "<i>Tavola</i>" can also refer to a plank, board, chart, figure, or panel. “<i>Tavola</i>” is also used to refer to a snowboard because a “board” or “wooden plank” is called a “<i>tavola</i>”. <br /><br />So, the difference between "<i>tavolo</i>" and "<i>tavola</i>" lies in the context in which they are used. While both words can mean "table", "<i>tavolo</i>" is used more generally, while "<i>tavola</i>" is used specifically for a table set for a meal or a plank of wood. <br /><br /><h3 id="examples" style="text-align: left;">Examples </h3><br /><b>Tavola usage </b><br /><br />____ a tavola OR tavola a ____<div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>tutti a tavola!</li><li>mettersi a tavola</li><li>posti a tavola</li><li>tavola a vela</li></ul><div><br /></div><div>____ da tavola OR tavola da ____</div><div><ul></ul></div><div><ul><li>vino/olive/uva da tavola</li><li>biancheria da tavola</li><li>trionfo da tavola</li><li>tavola da surf</li><li>tavola da stiro</li></ul></div><div><br /></div>La tavola OR tavola _____</div><div><ul></ul></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>la buona tavola</li><li>prepare la tavola</li><li>Tavola rotonda</li><li>tavola calda</li><li>tavola periodica</li><li>tavola pitagorica</li></ul><div><br /></div>____ in tavola:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>mettere/cambiare le carte in tavola</li><li>portare in tavola</li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Tavolo usage </b><br /><br /><br />Il tavolo OR tavolo ____<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>sotto il tavolo</li><li>prendere il tavolo</li><li>tavolo operatorio</li><li>tavolo negoziale</li><li>tavolo verde</li></ul><br /><br />____ da tavolo OR tavolo da ____</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>apparecchi da tavolo</li><li>tennis da tavolo</li><li>lampada da tavolo</li><li>gioco da tavolo</li><li>tavolo da pranzo</li><li>tavolo da ping-pong</li><li>tavolo da gioco</li><li>tavolo da disegno</li><li>tavolo da surf</li></ul><br />tavolo di ____: <br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Tavolo di lavoro</li><li>giro di tavolo</li><li>tavolo di comando</li></ul></div><br /><br /></div>TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com0Bergamo, Province of Bergamo, Italy45.6982642 9.677269817.388030363821152 -25.478980200000002 74.00849803617885 44.8335198tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-11200678364954629012024-03-04T10:35:00.006+01:002024-03-15T09:31:38.513+01:00Nouns derived from IRE and ERE verbs<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG-TSN-AlO_x78DW57uL-2KKkLNOevJYL4h-e4p-sb_4LvdBbtgKA4fYlQ2JhxFJtq7VoEzz9Ebwq3BEvYSpUigujw6Hpt3gZ-ReZLPt0E_ksbnFHl2YLGqod0MNVFEsp510woyPbXT6Nd-GwewEhOjuYQgINEhyphenhypheniF3Nrz8NkaAAeFtGSKaFi-G0LWpQ/s1024/DESIGN~3.JPE"><img alt="two cuddly creatures walking side by side, one wears the nametag written as scoprire and the other wears the nametag written scoperta, behind them is an Italian flag" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG-TSN-AlO_x78DW57uL-2KKkLNOevJYL4h-e4p-sb_4LvdBbtgKA4fYlQ2JhxFJtq7VoEzz9Ebwq3BEvYSpUigujw6Hpt3gZ-ReZLPt0E_ksbnFHl2YLGqod0MNVFEsp510woyPbXT6Nd-GwewEhOjuYQgINEhyphenhypheniF3Nrz8NkaAAeFtGSKaFi-G0LWpQ/w320-h320/DESIGN~3.JPE" title="two cuddly creatures walking side by side, one wears the nametag written as scoprire and the other wears the nametag written scoperta, behind them is an Italian flag" width="320" /></a><br /><b>Scoprire and scoperta walking side-by-side.</b><br /><br />In the post <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2019/12/one-hundred-and-more-common-italian-nouns-derived-from-verbs.html"><i>One Hundred (and More) Common Italian Nouns Derived from Verbs : Confusion Over Masculine and Feminine</i></a>, we covered ARE verbs and concluded that approximately 80% of the time nouns derived from these verbs were masculine. Examples: <i>il cancello</i> => <i>cancellare</i>, <i>il raggio</i> => <i>raggiare</i>. 20% were feminine. Examples: <i>la ricerca</i> => <i>ricercare</i>, <i>la sfida</i> => <i>sfidare</i>. This is just a rule of thumb we came up with! We are not language experts. <br /><br />Well, the idea of masculine / feminine came back around the other day when I went to send a message in Italian and hesitated with <i>scoperta</i> or <i>scoperto</i>. (It’s <i>scoperata</i> and the associated verb is <i>scoprire</i>.) I went to the blog post above and realized we didn’t say much about IRE or ERE verbs. This post delves into those verbs. <div><br /></div><blockquote><b>Side note</b>: It was pointed out to me that these <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/p/italian-language.html">Italian language posts</a> are my way of building an inference engine that I can run in my head to apply rules to understand the language and make choices real time. Compare that to our Italian 4-year-old friend: he is using a large language model, learning the language by patterns and sounds. I think he’ll come out ahead in the end.</blockquote>In that <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2019/12/one-hundred-and-more-common-italian-nouns-derived-from-verbs.html"><i>ARE post</i></a>, we wrote “Verbs ending in -ERE and -IRE and their related nouns derive from the past participle usually. For example, <i>la discesa</i> from <i>discendere</i> and <i>la promessa</i> from <i>promettere</i>.” However, as the lists below show, it’s not so easy and maybe not as common as we thought. The Italian language (or any language for that matter) will let us off that easily with its exceptions. The main take-aways: <br /><br /><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Yes, some nouns derived from -ERE and -IRE verbs are feminine (ending in A), but there seems to be just as many exceptions: nouns that are derived from past participle but are masculine, or nouns not derived from past participle. Many –ERE and –IRE verbs have no (obvious) derived noun.</li><li>If you are really stuck, throw an IMENTO or URA suffix on the end of the verb root and hope for the best.</li></ol><p> </p><p><b>Nouns derived from or at least related to the past participle and that are feminine (or can be)</b></p><i>battere</i> => <i>la battuta </i><br /><i>correre</i> => <i>la corsa</i> (<i>il corso</i> means something different) <br /><i>difendere</i> => <i>la difesa </i><br /><i>discendere</i> => <i>la discesa </i><br /><i>disdire</i> => <i>la disdetta </i><br /><i>dormire</i> => <i>la dormita </i><br /><i>fallire</i> => <i>il/la fallito/a </i><br /><i>favorire</i> => <i>il/la favorito/a </i><br /><i>ferire</i> => <i>la ferita</i> (“the wound, <i>il/la ferito/a</i> for “the wounded”) <br /><i>maldire</i> => <i>il/la maledetto/a </i><br /><i>muovere</i> => <i>la mossa</i><br /><div><i>offrire</i> => <i>l'offerta </i><br /><i>prendere</i> => <i>la presa </i><br /><i>pretendere</i> => <i>la pretesa </i><br /><i>promettee</i> => <i>la promessa </i><br /><i>pungere</i> => <i>la punta </i><br /><i>richiedere</i> => <i>la richiesta </i><br /><i>ripetere</i> => <i>la ripetuta </i><br /><i>risalire</i> => <i>la risalita </i><br /><i>rispondere</i> => <i>la risposta </i><br /><i>rivolgere</i> => <i>la rivolta </i><br /><i>salire</i> => <i>la salita </i><br /><i>scegliere</i> => <i>la scelta </i><br /><i>scomparire</i> => <i>la scomparsa </i><br /><i>scoprire</i> => <i>la scoperta </i><br /><i>spendere</i> => <i>la spesa </i><br /><i>spingere</i> => <i>la spinta </i><br /><i>spremere</i> => <i>la spremuta </i><br /><i>stringere</i> => <i>la stretta</i> (<i>il stretto</i> means “strait” or “channel”) <br /><i>tingere</i> => <i>la tinta </i><br /><i>uccidere</i> => <i>il/la ucciso/a </i><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><b>Deviations<br />* Nouns derived from past particle that are masculine<br />† Nouns not derived from past participle <br /></b><br /><br /><i>accedere</i> => <i>accesso</i>* (not <i>acceduto</i>) <br /><i>applaudire</i> => <i>applauso</i>* (not <i>applaudito</i>) <br /><i>aprire</i> => <i>aperatura</i>† (not l’aperta) <br /><i>bollire</i> => <i>bollito</i>* <br /><i>chiudere</i> => <i>chiusura</i>† (<i>chiusa </i>means “sluice”) <br /><i>colpire</i> => <i>colpo</i>* <br /><i>contribuire</i> => <i>contributo</i>* (not <i>contribuito</i>, with an I) <br /><i>dibattere</i> => <i>dibattito</i>† (not <i>dibattuto</i>/a) <br /><i>divertire</i> => <i>divertimento</i>† <br /><i>finire</i> => <i>fine</i>, <i>termine</i>, <i>arrivo</i>, etc. † (but also <i>il </i><i>finito</i>) <br /><i>friggere</i> => <i>fritto</i>* (masculine, not <i>fritta</i>) <br /><i>fugire</i> => <i>fuggitivo/a</i>† (not <i>fuggito/a</i>) <br /><i>intuire</i> => <i>intuito</i>* <br /><i>mentire</i> => <i>bugia</i>, <i>menzogna</i>† (not <i>mentito</i>) <br /><i>riaprire</i> => <i>riaperatura</i>† (not <i>riaperta</i>) <br /><i>ridere</i> => <i>riso</i>* (masculine, not <i>risa </i>but <i>risata</i>) <br /><i>risvegliere</i> => <i>risveglio</i> (not <i>risvegliato</i>) <br /><i>seguire</i> => <i>seguito</i>* (masculine, not <i>seguita</i>) <br /><i>seppellire</i> => <i>seppellimento</i>† (not <i>seppellito/a</i>) <br /><i>soridere</i> => <i>sorriso</i>* (masculine, not <i>sorrisa</i>) <br /><i>sostituire</i> => <i>il/la sostituto/a</i> (not <i>sostituito/a</i> with I) <br /><i>starnutare</i> => <i>starnuto</i>† (not <i>starnutito</i>) <br /><i>succedere</i> => <i>successo</i>* <br /><i>suggerire</i> => <i>suggerimento</i>† (not <i>suggerito/a</i>) <br /><i>temere</i> => <i>paura</i>, <i>terrore</i>† (not <i>temo/a</i>) <br /><u>tossire</u> => tosse† (not tossito/a) <br /><i>tradire</i> => <i>tradimento</i>† (not <i>tradito/a</i>) <br /><i>trasferire</i> => <i>trasferimento</i>† (not <i>trasferito/a</i>) <br /><i>vestire</i> => <i>vestito</i>* <br /><i>vivere</i> => <i>vivo</i>* <div><br /></div></div>TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com0Bergamo, Province of Bergamo, Italy45.6982642 9.677269817.388030363821152 -25.478980200000002 74.00849803617885 44.8335198tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-47642698089366727632024-03-03T17:07:00.005+01:002024-03-13T15:51:16.114+01:00Ironman doing the dishes – Learning English with AI Image generation<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMC66vUPtPoHIoYAhLPNdBNPObl8tsN_Oe7cMq_QX-0pFzJZwnwcnsYYndnk-GfrOwpq1hZHQd29kHQTCclh4cV03aF1s3B7IO5oJS3Kpto7kzSNiQVKt1iJEC-4L19bqo5AG0M1qcvtzfhniU3jXSe2uD8tpeoXWIzHIi2XySmdDBK21s28LfYX73BA/s1200/35%20images%20generated%20from%20Microsoft%20Designer%20Image%20Creator.png"><img border="0" data-original-height="1257" data-original-width="1759" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMC66vUPtPoHIoYAhLPNdBNPObl8tsN_Oe7cMq_QX-0pFzJZwnwcnsYYndnk-GfrOwpq1hZHQd29kHQTCclh4cV03aF1s3B7IO5oJS3Kpto7kzSNiQVKt1iJEC-4L19bqo5AG0M1qcvtzfhniU3jXSe2uD8tpeoXWIzHIi2XySmdDBK21s28LfYX73BA/w400-h286/35%20images%20generated%20from%20Microsoft%20Designer%20Image%20Creator.png" style="color: #0000ee; text-align: center;" width="400" /></a></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">35 images created with prompts in Microsoft Image Designer</span></b></div><div><br /> We were babysitting our friend’s 4 year old (4.5 to be exact). He’s Italian and is learning English. Currently, he has good basic command of English. So, we decided to work with words and concepts in <a href="https://designer.microsoft.com/image-creator">Microsoft Designer – Image Creator</a>. <br /><br />Our little ward is in his “Ironman” phase so various prompts involve Ironman. We encouraged him to find interesting pairings of words, like what’s something Ironman is never pictured doing. One answer: the dishes. <br /><br />Of the two images Designer created, he typically liked one of the two images better and we saved that. <br /><br />Sometimes both were visually interesting, so we saved both. It was interesting asking why he liked one image over the other – in English. Certain things in the image would stick out to him and be the criteria for selection. They were usually aspects of the image that our adult brains weren’t considering. <br /><br /><br />The prompts: <br /><br />a cat astronaut that is chasing space mice <br />a cat astronaut that is flying in space <br />a chair like a rainbow <br />a computer hat <br />a computer on the head of a person <br />a cookie tree <br />a house on a plant <br />a house rainbow <br />a house with arms and legs and a head that is walking down the street <br />a house with legs, arms that is walking down the street <br />a person walking the roof where the roof has tiles <br />a person with rainbow colored skin <br />a rainbow squirrel <br />a skyscraper made of plants <br />a tree growing in a house <br />a tree growing through a house <br />a tree on the roof of a house <br />a zebra on a house <br />an astronaut flying inside a house who is being chased by a cat <br />an astronaut flying inside a house being chased by a cat <br />baby ironman in diapers in a crib <br />candy <br />cookie snow <br />ironman disco dancing in the sky <br />Ironman doing the dishes <br />Ironman made of candy <br />Ironman made of plants <br />Ironman rainbow <br />Ironman skiing on a house <br />Ironman with the flag of Italy and a cow <br />Ironman with the flag of Italy</div><div><br /></div><br /><br />
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<br /> <br /></div>TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com0Bergamo, Province of Bergamo, Italy45.6982642 9.677269817.388030363821152 -25.478980200000002 74.00849803617885 44.8335198tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-16821085100189234032024-02-18T14:30:00.037+01:002024-02-24T16:26:47.659+01:00Binario 21 Milano Centrale – Milan Central Platform 21 Visit<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/02/binario-21-milano-centrale-milan.html#overview">Overview</a> ~ <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/02/binario-21-milano-centrale-milan.html#1938">1938</a> ~ <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/02/binario-21-milano-centrale-milan.html#indifferenza">Indifferenza</a> ~ <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/02/binario-21-milano-centrale-milan.html#milanocentrale">Milano Centrale</a></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8vjNH0HTaJdz-ovadFGPHnJTzE8ks6oN7qh24okVs7Lskbo2BJN8iAkR8fbm-sr4t4ip2rt8-cKFpPU4IwrOe_OQxWphyW9tZwLmnaYkkJQkH6Xfr-Q_a8Wh253AQA6ZxApCPsju8beqCdVgm_gU4C3IDwwR3NpfN79NuJ-wY8bG6iudEP_bMdl-g6w/s4032/A%20normal%20train%20leaves%20the%20station%20-%20Milano%20Centrale.JPG"><img alt="A train leaves the Milan Central station at dusk." border="0" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8vjNH0HTaJdz-ovadFGPHnJTzE8ks6oN7qh24okVs7Lskbo2BJN8iAkR8fbm-sr4t4ip2rt8-cKFpPU4IwrOe_OQxWphyW9tZwLmnaYkkJQkH6Xfr-Q_a8Wh253AQA6ZxApCPsju8beqCdVgm_gU4C3IDwwR3NpfN79NuJ-wY8bG6iudEP_bMdl-g6w/w289-h217/A%20normal%20train%20leaves%20the%20station%20-%20Milano%20Centrale.JPG" title="A train leaves the Milan Central station at dusk." width="289" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfd-ippCAEaJ58kz0vEHMy-vI4FBT0ONTZ6iO8GGHnImpayioigPB4XLREm5GmxYG1XUroLAtttOY2EcpSR0DkALHFUi3qbjzsTgVMSJX1qnlFWcRp45XE2eL4u-yuOhgS_3koGWlFYrqv1sjW-M9djgY4n4MUrNAuQXsnFt1OmFORlzUuX4ZgpM0opg/s4032/Railcar%20handling%20and%20Special%20Train%20Markers.jpg"><img alt="The secret loading platform where Jewish prisoners were deported to Auschwitz." border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfd-ippCAEaJ58kz0vEHMy-vI4FBT0ONTZ6iO8GGHnImpayioigPB4XLREm5GmxYG1XUroLAtttOY2EcpSR0DkALHFUi3qbjzsTgVMSJX1qnlFWcRp45XE2eL4u-yuOhgS_3koGWlFYrqv1sjW-M9djgY4n4MUrNAuQXsnFt1OmFORlzUuX4ZgpM0opg/w287-h216/Railcar%20handling%20and%20Special%20Train%20Markers.jpg" title="The secret loading platform where Jewish prisoners were deported to Auschwitz." width="287" /></a><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: A train leaves the Milan Central station at dusk.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Right: The "secret" loading platform where Jewish prisoners were deported to Auschwitz.</span></div><div><br /><h3 id="overview" style="text-align: left;">Overview </h3><div><br /></div>For years we've came in and out of Milan Centrale (the main train station) marveling at its size and structure and at times, chaos. We did not know about the story of the late 1930s and early 1940s and the secret track used to deport Italian Jews and political prisoners to Auschwitz. We learned about it recently at the <a href="https://www.memorialdelashoah.org/">Shoah Memorial</a> located on the very same tracks used for deportation.<br /><br /><blockquote>“Shoah” is a Hebrew word that literally means "catastrophe". It is specifically used to refer to the mass murder of nearly six million Jews in Europe by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during the Second World War. This term is more commonly used in English-speaking countries as “Holocaust”, which is Greek for "sacrifice by fire" </blockquote><br />If you are standing at the big white Pistoletto apple titled “<i>La Mela Reintegrata</i>” (<a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/67NZxihu1x2crzEp7">location</a>) staring at the imposing-looking train station, you are standing in Piazza Duca d’Aosta. Start walking toward the station and go to the right and walk along the right side of the station. Pass the fast-food joints and bus stops. Keep the massive building on your left. Cross the Sottopasso Mortirolo. On your right, you’ll see a four columned Art Nouveau style building (the short lived ex-post office). It still has “POSTE” written on it. Finally, on your left, you’ll come to the Shoah Memorial. Likely, there will be guards out front. <br /><br />How can a track be secret? Well, the loading of merchandise, mail, and tragically people happened below the main tracks, out of sight. Cars were loaded and then brought up to the main tracks with a large elevator and connected to a train. “The loading of deportees onto carriages took place in the early mornings to ensure secrecy and also prevent disruption of the vital daily mail and freight services.” [<a href="https://forward.com/news/139293/a-wall-of-indifference-italy-s-shoah-memorial/">ref</a>]. The efficiency of evil.<br /><br /><h3 id="1938" style="text-align: left;">1938 </h3><br />The start of this dark period in Italian history can be traced to the 1938 “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto_of_Race">Manifesto of Race</a>”. The manifesto, signed nonetheless by medical doctors and scientists, said basically that Italians were descendants of the Aryan race. No need to go into the rest and what it entailed but suffice it to say that the enactment of the manifesto resulted in severe discrimination against Jewish and North Africans (of the Italian colonial empire). <br /><br />1,200 Jewish prisoners left on twenty trains from 1938 to 1943 from the tracks where the memorial is today. Most were brought to Auschwitz. Very few came back. The most prominent deportee who did return is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liliana_Segre">Liliana Segre</a>, the Italian Senator for life. She was deported in 1943. <br /><br />Of the population of 38,994 Italian Jews, 7,172 were arrested and became victims of the Shoah. [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Italy">ref</a>] <br /><br />It’s sobering, embarrassing, and maddening to think that people were treated like merchandise, mail, cattle. Loaded underground, in the off hours of the day, sent off to death. (And that’s not to mention the humiliation and torture leading up to deportation in places like the San Vittore prison.) <br /><br />Yet, remembering that hasn’t always been easy in Italy. According to article <a href="https://forward.com/news/139293/a-wall-of-indifference-italy-s-shoah-memorial/">A Wall of Indifference: Italy’s Shoah Memorial</a> “...the culture of memory is slower in Italy than elsewhere in Europe, because even into the 1970s many Italians believed they were not really involved in the Holocaust; it was, instead, the evil work of German occupiers who invaded northern Italy after the fall of Mussolini. Italians pointed to the documented refusal of soldiers and citizens to participate in the Holocaust under Mussolini or to assist the Nazis after they invaded in 1943.” <br /><br />The title of Michelangelo Pistoletto piece sitting in front of the station - “<a href="https://www.cittadellarte.it/attivita/la-mela-reintegrata"><i>La Mela Reintegrata</i></a>” (the apple made whole) represents “the entry into a new era, in which the artificial world and the natural world are reunited, generating an extended balance in society on a planetary scale.” That’s the official meaning. However, I can’t look at that stitched together apple and think about how we stitch together parts of history – like the deportation of Italian Jews – into a whole and try and make sense of it and make it presentable. And sometimes, make it seem like a Frankenstein creation of the past that can’t happen again. This is where we are very wrong.<br /><br /><h3 id="indifferenza" style="text-align: left;">Indifferenza </h3><div><br /></div>We visited Auschwitz-Birkenau and museums and memorials in Berlin to the holocaust, and always the same question comes to mind: What would I have done if I was one of the persecuted groups? Perhaps a more relevant question is what would I’ve done if I was not one of the persecuted groups, but I was a bystander? Would I have helped or turned a blind eye to not get myself in trouble? A huge INDIFFERENZA “indifference” written in concrete at the start of the museum, makes you pause to ask that question.<br /><br />It’s not a good feeling to think of yourself as indifferent, but in fact, we are indifferent to many of today’s tragedies. Indifference is alive and good. <br /><br />The museum is imbued in a gloom that is locked in time literally. The site remains as if waiting for its next load. The rumbling of trains above your head gives an eerie reminder that life goes on as normal (or tries to).</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj26gt50xQSOarqRbBmzM2IkLagdTh_QXo6fsH-ATZnXsgDYM5D-_TTOlvWYUX-UvDwb2XuYhnTEuFNrrwL6cclFbGY7G-kJfB0rMaRRyVySJ_cfpnUrtPbc7qDdh9ZD4YQ7dyhAgrpTWC_L3eAWwltIfXwjSqscWtOnyZ_JJqZf5E8Yk2V-X2K1oi9Q/s4032/Shoah%20Memorial%20Milan%20-%20%20indifferenza%20wall.jpg"><img alt="Shoah Memorial Milan - indifferenza wall" border="0" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj26gt50xQSOarqRbBmzM2IkLagdTh_QXo6fsH-ATZnXsgDYM5D-_TTOlvWYUX-UvDwb2XuYhnTEuFNrrwL6cclFbGY7G-kJfB0rMaRRyVySJ_cfpnUrtPbc7qDdh9ZD4YQ7dyhAgrpTWC_L3eAWwltIfXwjSqscWtOnyZ_JJqZf5E8Yk2V-X2K1oi9Q/w192-h144/Shoah%20Memorial%20Milan%20-%20%20indifferenza%20wall.jpg" title="Shoah Memorial Milan - indifferenza wall" width="192" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF12V0PmV1t_yY7X6M4M9cqBWTe6gsg8q8Ax5XcyRDE4NSZoVC4Zk5x-AbZlNnf4b5sVa4D0BqN8jhZCKEemgb7LFICGFh0XmaXHqwfGoll1PdVe5bca_Xep_rfZuy7gzm7wnyxW1lJuQOu_VwXS83ghsBVf8KhAxH3EfvEq9GCzeIIRcQQvnvTHgltg/s4080/Shoah%20Memorial%20-%20Place%20of%20Reflection%20-%20on%20the%20tracks.jpg"><img alt="Shoah Memorial - Place of Reflection - on the tracks" border="0" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF12V0PmV1t_yY7X6M4M9cqBWTe6gsg8q8Ax5XcyRDE4NSZoVC4Zk5x-AbZlNnf4b5sVa4D0BqN8jhZCKEemgb7LFICGFh0XmaXHqwfGoll1PdVe5bca_Xep_rfZuy7gzm7wnyxW1lJuQOu_VwXS83ghsBVf8KhAxH3EfvEq9GCzeIIRcQQvnvTHgltg/w193-h145/Shoah%20Memorial%20-%20Place%20of%20Reflection%20-%20on%20the%20tracks.jpg" title="Shoah Memorial - Place of Reflection - on the tracks" width="193" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCf8jW5prXF0rY72_Sd7r_oAkRa-OXdCkuT6y_dt64zREF4C569QbdC_Tbda-aSpLOp7ddbw-n0T6G6gTqUZZphUGmh0A4HkvDUvbNHqpfCYgElXIFsLeiRZPVdjyiNn7VopOToGJIv0eBK7VmxnnNVK5UHfuKsgRDwfhVeTYT_4BUFJ7b4MYqF7fH5g/s4032/The%20deportation%20platform%20and%20livestock%20cars%201.jpg"><img alt="The deportation platform and livestock cars" border="0" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCf8jW5prXF0rY72_Sd7r_oAkRa-OXdCkuT6y_dt64zREF4C569QbdC_Tbda-aSpLOp7ddbw-n0T6G6gTqUZZphUGmh0A4HkvDUvbNHqpfCYgElXIFsLeiRZPVdjyiNn7VopOToGJIv0eBK7VmxnnNVK5UHfuKsgRDwfhVeTYT_4BUFJ7b4MYqF7fH5g/w195-h146/The%20deportation%20platform%20and%20livestock%20cars%201.jpg" title="The deportation platform and livestock cars" width="195" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: Shoah Memorial Milan - "indifferenza" wall.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Center: Shoah Memorial - Place of Reflection.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Right: The deportation platform and train cars.<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8s-WEF7ZC1uroRJwqC56GcSkTX0v_S7SqjjXZEHFfeJ1GqwtWosbLd0xTIy8uEkQRjNDfEuoqvA09Ji3y-iBr38wXntzON_TSwXeOccfkQhHzRaLB8Myq0jmv6KvvariAn2KrcytY0iT5vxmpS5HbhlKmLbAxT6i_3lQR_hPSDmrOw3-SKQ_uDfnFwg/s4080/The%20deportation%20platform%20and%20livestock%20cars%204.jpg"><img alt="The deportation platform and livestock cars" border="0" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8s-WEF7ZC1uroRJwqC56GcSkTX0v_S7SqjjXZEHFfeJ1GqwtWosbLd0xTIy8uEkQRjNDfEuoqvA09Ji3y-iBr38wXntzON_TSwXeOccfkQhHzRaLB8Myq0jmv6KvvariAn2KrcytY0iT5vxmpS5HbhlKmLbAxT6i_3lQR_hPSDmrOw3-SKQ_uDfnFwg/w193-h145/The%20deportation%20platform%20and%20livestock%20cars%204.jpg" title="The deportation platform and livestock cars" width="193" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1dGpsaoQ-Bcbi-i5GyCjmqTaTg4eZ3UUOdP3sNf6NH40VZnOwcJQX2k62gr8A37iZX6rmynMqKofnsOB56mr2UE16c-B47QaBWNx3aUmruc8i2XV2PrLwuJSK2bclZpIiPpu5QVnnOahdNzpohJveusjonxdeeRHP1oUNq9tjn4MBzwDzD1GDGjKn5A/s4032/The%20observatory%20-%20tunnel.jpg"><img alt="The observatory - tunnel" border="0" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1dGpsaoQ-Bcbi-i5GyCjmqTaTg4eZ3UUOdP3sNf6NH40VZnOwcJQX2k62gr8A37iZX6rmynMqKofnsOB56mr2UE16c-B47QaBWNx3aUmruc8i2XV2PrLwuJSK2bclZpIiPpu5QVnnOahdNzpohJveusjonxdeeRHP1oUNq9tjn4MBzwDzD1GDGjKn5A/w191-h144/The%20observatory%20-%20tunnel.jpg" title="The observatory - tunnel" width="191" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjemC_YFgGpcxnOlkn8Yyc1MMPHlMYQlKaXhByCE-umxR6FwH6U9Fdf8A7G6d0PJi5jcEQbZNQUcp5Vhk-tA7xH8Z5Vwq_UUpQKD0HTD2IbM82KeRZiGssC47IavRW0qbkRwml5qki_m5K0m2OmB12k2zK1dU9JWwBCOiPKWqeOQXN2E9-BLg6xyYWxIg/s4080/Rail%20elevator%20system.jpg"><img alt="Rail elevator system" border="0" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjemC_YFgGpcxnOlkn8Yyc1MMPHlMYQlKaXhByCE-umxR6FwH6U9Fdf8A7G6d0PJi5jcEQbZNQUcp5Vhk-tA7xH8Z5Vwq_UUpQKD0HTD2IbM82KeRZiGssC47IavRW0qbkRwml5qki_m5K0m2OmB12k2zK1dU9JWwBCOiPKWqeOQXN2E9-BLg6xyYWxIg/w193-h145/Rail%20elevator%20system.jpg" title="Rail elevator system" width="193" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: The deportation platform and train cars.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Center: The observatory tunnel.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Right: Rail elevator system, where cars were lifted to track 21.<br /></span><br /> <div><br /></div><h3 id="milanocentrale" style="text-align: left;">Milano Centrale</h3><div><br /></div>Milano Centrale is the main railway station of Milan, Italy. It was officially inaugurated on July 1, 1931, to replace the old central station, which was a transit station that could not handle the increased traffic caused by the opening of the Simplon Tunnel (connecting Switzerland to Italy) in 1906. <br /><br />The station was designed and constructed by architect Ulisse Stacchini. The design of the building's facade was intended to showcase the dominance of then-Prime Minister Mussolini's fascist regime. You literally feel small in this building. <br /><br />Entering into the station and accessing the platforms, binario (platform) 21 is located to the right. You can’t get the museum from the platform area, only from the external entrance. <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTyD5lYAr9bgmYb2vFdy2r77AbeaaeTUjUzqPKm7ind7i0jCspJMsf1YSeMEWzAwHVWVSk_RAKxlQbMfGR6fRdqrZUix1nZGVbI1BWlvADqOPP-iPfjuh5KcYJKSYU-e5m0EVz4w-3nMJGiq0y7M1yDZWYmCeFBxWlhoOmHk7ILckIBZ6Hy2lRRh9F2g/s4032/Inside%20the%20Milan%20Central%20Station%202.JPG"><img alt="Inside the Milan Central Station" border="0" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTyD5lYAr9bgmYb2vFdy2r77AbeaaeTUjUzqPKm7ind7i0jCspJMsf1YSeMEWzAwHVWVSk_RAKxlQbMfGR6fRdqrZUix1nZGVbI1BWlvADqOPP-iPfjuh5KcYJKSYU-e5m0EVz4w-3nMJGiq0y7M1yDZWYmCeFBxWlhoOmHk7ILckIBZ6Hy2lRRh9F2g/w160-h120/Inside%20the%20Milan%20Central%20Station%202.JPG" title="Inside the Milan Central Station" width="160" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyahyphenhyphenkDCKtmcb_YrVPQS8QEf1bP5MWyANRvIuqmOua9giRL6t7BPjlaXjOVBR3VpJB86pLF1A7SxcQU8cuNM23K6Npslb8pQhaVvxOsuY1psM5eMTaWyXVln7EkAlsmleNBhf5dGzwNdg478aOG11EfGIn1h37zb5HnGrkFlPocuuXk_8d2vYYWfJ_Hg/s4032/Inside%20the%20Milan%20Central%20Station.JPG"><img alt="Inside the Milan Central Station" border="0" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyahyphenhyphenkDCKtmcb_YrVPQS8QEf1bP5MWyANRvIuqmOua9giRL6t7BPjlaXjOVBR3VpJB86pLF1A7SxcQU8cuNM23K6Npslb8pQhaVvxOsuY1psM5eMTaWyXVln7EkAlsmleNBhf5dGzwNdg478aOG11EfGIn1h37zb5HnGrkFlPocuuXk_8d2vYYWfJ_Hg/w89-h119/Inside%20the%20Milan%20Central%20Station.JPG" title="Inside the Milan Central Station" width="89" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbkxmOOfn-85ULlWVXNcuB-CqBBbO-pAYT_V23Q12l3san_SWE6YluTM9VejcM6bFwKKuLUrmNc6Kv0eWQynOc8E71qTPZKZaEUo-6GWvxzbWwEkdmCOahrn0HhN2PHf05EUcZ_EtNkApU8GiWtk7DxXIx2vMI9-B4h1F6wVpD_kq6R_jZwYofvIfy0Q/s4032/Milano%20Centrale%20Stazione%20-%20clock%20above%20entrance.JPG"><img alt="Milano Centrale Stazione - clock above entrance" border="0" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbkxmOOfn-85ULlWVXNcuB-CqBBbO-pAYT_V23Q12l3san_SWE6YluTM9VejcM6bFwKKuLUrmNc6Kv0eWQynOc8E71qTPZKZaEUo-6GWvxzbWwEkdmCOahrn0HhN2PHf05EUcZ_EtNkApU8GiWtk7DxXIx2vMI9-B4h1F6wVpD_kq6R_jZwYofvIfy0Q/w158-h119/Milano%20Centrale%20Stazione%20-%20clock%20above%20entrance.JPG" title="Milano Centrale Stazione - clock above entrance" width="158" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB-qwFnv1KYfgMm7VEkkzVWtFxu5cFKQ_-h_MSNOHT6_m_Y5_nmL93QpWX2FnHI08o_pFnyyx0zVDbuouN8ATJsHiSRQf9ekg9gt7HU9D6vHtsMaP-1t7vkuouVlMKHr2KBkFfyMKZe7Z_RoJIQIAQmOdLhUMXyPYgYe7mG0ONAvjGESHVB5RLApX_gw/s4032/The%20Pistoletto%20wor%20-%20La%20Mela%20Reintegrata%20-%20outside%20the%20Milano%20Centrale%20station.JPG"><img alt="The Pistoletto wor - La Mela Reintegrata - outside the Milano Centrale station" border="0" height="118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB-qwFnv1KYfgMm7VEkkzVWtFxu5cFKQ_-h_MSNOHT6_m_Y5_nmL93QpWX2FnHI08o_pFnyyx0zVDbuouN8ATJsHiSRQf9ekg9gt7HU9D6vHtsMaP-1t7vkuouVlMKHr2KBkFfyMKZe7Z_RoJIQIAQmOdLhUMXyPYgYe7mG0ONAvjGESHVB5RLApX_gw/w157-h118/The%20Pistoletto%20wor%20-%20La%20Mela%20Reintegrata%20-%20outside%20the%20Milano%20Centrale%20station.JPG" title="The Pistoletto wor - La Mela Reintegrata - outside the Milano Centrale station" width="157" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Views of the Milan Central Station building, inside and out, with Michelangelo Pistoletto "La Mela Reintegrata" work in front.<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS9sfMqkr4DdmtnUcC31pOpsbbZDRLmeO_0LiyoTdRlEJjp-5skc_hjfMSkAzux3yDNDx0rNgSV293D04ro2OdYvR4_pKEJxmy5kpF5romY_uGe0feKJj6jbvBLkBYl4QX600-GlHxOukk81-QyhNz51_b0-bLgJFC020Hy-X6R0KH2zj2rH0v91tWig/s4032/Milan%20Centrale%20-%20Deserted%20Platforms%20in%20the%20evening.JPG"><img alt="Milan Centrale - Deserted Platforms in the evening" border="0" height="107" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS9sfMqkr4DdmtnUcC31pOpsbbZDRLmeO_0LiyoTdRlEJjp-5skc_hjfMSkAzux3yDNDx0rNgSV293D04ro2OdYvR4_pKEJxmy5kpF5romY_uGe0feKJj6jbvBLkBYl4QX600-GlHxOukk81-QyhNz51_b0-bLgJFC020Hy-X6R0KH2zj2rH0v91tWig/w142-h107/Milan%20Centrale%20-%20Deserted%20Platforms%20in%20the%20evening.JPG" title="Milan Centrale - Deserted Platforms in the evening" width="142" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkBnRk-JFZgi61Sjki4GPSHObmthSSW3taUlp5GVZBSXBJvWY2McqS0b8pwtTMUAnW_kieWnMm59KxrJ26zvxA-x5qh11el5PkLwcFwMVx0823wXpl_KjEnZHMuwjxwDsd5YeAJNsdGBfe4unznxuFhP_zanqxXiH1LTauvOm94CUp2fF_DLME2D2kMQ/s4032/Milan%20Centrale%20Stazione%20-%20looking%20down%20on%20platforms.JPG"><img alt="Milan Centrale Stazione - looking down on platforms" border="0" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkBnRk-JFZgi61Sjki4GPSHObmthSSW3taUlp5GVZBSXBJvWY2McqS0b8pwtTMUAnW_kieWnMm59KxrJ26zvxA-x5qh11el5PkLwcFwMVx0823wXpl_KjEnZHMuwjxwDsd5YeAJNsdGBfe4unznxuFhP_zanqxXiH1LTauvOm94CUp2fF_DLME2D2kMQ/w140-h106/Milan%20Centrale%20Stazione%20-%20looking%20down%20on%20platforms.JPG" title="Milan Centrale Stazione - looking down on platforms" width="140" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0QpYDmyt5JXKdX8lV1dxNS1D8uyKw0cUyFBu9IhvscykXGPNq14ES3xIkuxgEQX2-cbfv9CU9At2r1BMWCZWHmvpGS8jV9LoLZFMA3lcBw81MbSHh8I_P3FI05YJMgPr-04XUeYl5c78mRey6k1gOoIyvHQ_G3JQY3u4duWSjIo3Hi4lU15kXtnK1Mw/s3180/Milano%20Centrale%20-%20Platforms.jpg"><img alt="Milano Centrale - Platforms" border="0" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0QpYDmyt5JXKdX8lV1dxNS1D8uyKw0cUyFBu9IhvscykXGPNq14ES3xIkuxgEQX2-cbfv9CU9At2r1BMWCZWHmvpGS8jV9LoLZFMA3lcBw81MbSHh8I_P3FI05YJMgPr-04XUeYl5c78mRey6k1gOoIyvHQ_G3JQY3u4duWSjIo3Hi4lU15kXtnK1Mw/w142-h106/Milano%20Centrale%20-%20Platforms.jpg" title="Milano Centrale - Platforms" width="142" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUI8yC8Uahuf6OS_37Tl6ULdatclh9bfjPf6Oqzgv8Hr650O98vOnnJmS0R20GWcc05F4PTvOqHz3wpj9lyFib4DHDaNi8vr7o5hGMpz2A2UCW6sFe0rnZ-bNBbVXuSXMdUBBDH05HCh5-TxZGxXcssRg2fzBUsTpuWISXSbghEYLSLhWf3N8M6uQbrA/s4032/Milano%20Centrale%20Stazione%20-%20Access%20to%20platforms.JPG"><img alt="Milano Centrale Stazione - Access to platforms" border="0" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUI8yC8Uahuf6OS_37Tl6ULdatclh9bfjPf6Oqzgv8Hr650O98vOnnJmS0R20GWcc05F4PTvOqHz3wpj9lyFib4DHDaNi8vr7o5hGMpz2A2UCW6sFe0rnZ-bNBbVXuSXMdUBBDH05HCh5-TxZGxXcssRg2fzBUsTpuWISXSbghEYLSLhWf3N8M6uQbrA/w141-h106/Milano%20Centrale%20Stazione%20-%20Access%20to%20platforms.JPG" title="Milano Centrale Stazione - Access to platforms" width="141" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Various views of the Milan Central train shed.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7loBRgzjEqO8p1OrYOsfiJpBeb009dJSmLppjf8kR8S14yJA1_MivWjG35DS8sMLp2WybsDY5vkwA9C0bVjhc7tSiHGGu-1RAXKSL38Fkb-vyFEX-mbRwYC6eAWw2KrlZoD0nzAndJeUkMvk1bTfWY1hh50354M5oddbUiWfGydqjAQjBeARGWxruFQ/s4032/Milano%20Centrale%20Stazione%20-%20passengers%20and%20trains.JPG"><img alt="Milano Centrale Stazione - passengers and trains" border="0" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7loBRgzjEqO8p1OrYOsfiJpBeb009dJSmLppjf8kR8S14yJA1_MivWjG35DS8sMLp2WybsDY5vkwA9C0bVjhc7tSiHGGu-1RAXKSL38Fkb-vyFEX-mbRwYC6eAWw2KrlZoD0nzAndJeUkMvk1bTfWY1hh50354M5oddbUiWfGydqjAQjBeARGWxruFQ/w118-h157/Milano%20Centrale%20Stazione%20-%20passengers%20and%20trains.JPG" title="Milano Centrale Stazione - passengers and trains" width="118" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-cuQ1vswsjpCkINfcGDJXcDPQeQr9r6cxyG6jR-8DLhAV9oEbdFA-wDdDpIq4hEtdIJgUliidNvsOURClbXk-qlV0jE5X-jQJ_0fOzM4-1EYzoySL_tfI0c41Dv0rb2AgDrmRSQS3sOIFseHanvfNz7Jph6xoIvNnHmpj6l79idc4mXAYFgDD516L_A/s4032/Out%20on%20the%20platforms%20-%20Milano%20Centrale%20Stazione.JPG"><img alt="Out on the platforms - 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They venture into the unknown, pushing the boundaries of knowledge and capabilities. In this latter sense, astronaut imagery works when musical artists exploring new forms of music want to convey that on their album cover.</div><div><br /></div><div>Astronaut-themed album covers can be “goofy”, like showing an astronaut comingling with aliens (“Space Escapade”) or Bach floating in space (“Switched on Bach”). A handful of covers use archival footage. If the astronaut on the album cover is on the moon, it is likely a flag is usually being planted. If the astronaut is floating in space, it is likely there is a view of the earth in the background.</div><div><br /></div><div>This part 2 of astronaut-themed album covers. <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/02/album-covers-with-astronauts-on-them-part1.html">Part 1</a> is here.<br /></div></div><div><br /></div><br />1958 Les Baxter - "Space Escapade" <br />1972 Beggars Opera - "Pathfinder" <br />1974 Wendy Carlos - "Switched on Bach" <br />1976 Passport - "2 Original of Passport" <br />1977 Meco - "Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk" <br /><br />1979 Camel - "I Can See Your House From Here" <br />1979 V-People - "Galactic Classics" <br />1983 Q-Feel - "Dancing in Heaven" <br />1993 Hypnolovewheel - "Altered States" <br />1994 Soul Coughing - "Ruby Vroom" <br /><br />1995 The Moog Cookbook - "The Moog Cookbook" <br />2003 Brand New - "Deja Entendu" <br />2005 Kiss Me Deadly - "Misty Medley" <br />2006 Moptop - "Moptop" <br />2006 Rare Air - "Space Piper" <br /><br />2007 Mooncake - "More Oxygen I said" <br />2007 Oi Va Voi - "Oi Va Voi" <br />2008 Matthew and the Arrogant Sea - "Family Family Family Meets the Magic Christian" <br />2008 The New Pornographers - "Myriad Harbours" <br />2009 Allison - "People From Outer Space" <br /><br />2009 Ancient Astronauts - "We Are to Answer" <br />2010 Klaxons - "Surfing the Void" <br />2016 King Creosote - "Astronaut Meets Appleman" <br />2017 Hugo Kant - "Out of Time" <br />2022 Eric Hilton - "Lost Dialect" <br /><br /><br /> <br />
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TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com0Seattle, WA, USA47.6061389 -122.332848119.295905063821152 -157.4890981 75.916372736178843 -87.1765981tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-78822596232451398832024-02-12T17:00:00.013+01:002024-02-13T17:48:59.244+01:00Album Covers with Astronauts on Them – Part I <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhryFDESZtcNvV04Q34CbdCwosJrcX4IrVB0AQORMza7fXPb6gnBo_a6SYdtnIc8KQWc9A0bo10NsE7Bg0Z5ST2D6ukEtoSOXceFPbxdhm4dG91Gt075s4cUbtgJo476NQLfNFIyLQLTrIeHzfUoQeuECYZykCjaDjEKnSvO6hcMFIz726LC13uTu0O9g/s1258/Composite%20image%20of%2025%20album%20covers%20featuring%20astronauts%20-%201.png"><img alt="A composite image of 25 musical album covers featuring astronauts." border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhryFDESZtcNvV04Q34CbdCwosJrcX4IrVB0AQORMza7fXPb6gnBo_a6SYdtnIc8KQWc9A0bo10NsE7Bg0Z5ST2D6ukEtoSOXceFPbxdhm4dG91Gt075s4cUbtgJo476NQLfNFIyLQLTrIeHzfUoQeuECYZykCjaDjEKnSvO6hcMFIz726LC13uTu0O9g/w320-h320/Composite%20image%20of%2025%20album%20covers%20featuring%20astronauts%20-%201.png" title="A composite image of 25 musical album covers featuring astronauts." width="320" /></a><div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>A composite image of 25 musical album covers featuring astronauts.</b></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Astronauts represent the spirit of human exploration and curiosity about the universe. They venture into the unknown, pushing the boundaries of knowledge and capabilities. In this latter sense, astronaut imagery works when musical artists exploring new forms of music want to convey that on their album cover.</div><div><br /></div><div>Astronaut-themed album covers can be “goofy”, like showing an astronaut comingling with aliens (“Space Escapade”) or Bach floating in space (“Switched on Bach”). A handful of covers use archival footage. If the astronaut on the album cover is on the moon, it is likely a flag is usually being planted. If the astronaut is floating in space, it is likely there is a view of the earth in the background.</div><div><br /></div><div>This part 1 of astronaut-themed album covers. <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/02/album-covers-with-astronauts-on-them-part2.html">Part 2</a> is here.<br /><br />1970 Canned Heat - "Future Blues" <br />1973 Led Zeppelin - "Later Days Vol 2" <br />1978 Roy Buchanan - "You're Not Alone" <br />1980 Randy VanWarmer - "Terraform" <br />1984 Space Walk - "Impressions Of An Astronaut" <br /><br />1987 Alpha Blondy - "Revolution" <br />1993 Engine Kid - "Astronaut" <br />1995 Loudon Wainwright III - "Grown Man" <br />1995 Matthew Good Band - "Last of the Ghetto Astronauts" <br />1995 Niney The Observer - "Observer Attack Dub" <br /><br />1998 The Afghan Whigs - "1965" <br />2000 Joeyfat - "The Unwilling Astronaut" <br />2000 Moby - "18 B Sides" <br />2001 De La Soul - "AOI Bionix" <br />2001 Mass Hysteria - "Ed Cercle En Cercle" <br /><br />2001 Robert Normandeau - "Claire de Terre" <br />2004 Kick - "New Horizon" <br />2005 Little Joe and the Latinaires - "Más!!! Arriba" <br />2007 Morandi - "N3xt" <br />2009 Sweet Water - "Clear the Tarmac" <br /><br />2010 FLOW - "Microcosm" <br />2010 Something Corporate - "Played in Space The Best of Something Corporate" <br />2015 Vennaskond - "Reis Krule" <br />2018 Liquid Horizon - "The Script of Life" <br />2018 Spiritualized - "And Nothing Hurt"</div><br /><br />
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TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com0Seattle, WA, USA47.6061389 -122.332848119.295905063821152 -157.4890981 75.916372736178843 -87.1765981tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-13155887890871629312024-02-05T15:03:00.001+01:002024-02-07T17:02:10.833+01:00ABILE and IBILE Adjectives in the Italian Language – Which Ending To Use<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinOfOf_0ja-fDPUeVI5CSafd5G-QbmLua_aaFCJk02YoHMT0i8sSwEyaibjj8hmbXB1hocKt_mjjHtfHxr95gv6ELaT2Gveh79ZR7QWI0ckEXqi82Wot80baZ66Yd3N-gJBioIrKp-YKBDPrJbXsKCX8A45hl_vUShLenml_bViZ8NPrwS8JpBuVfqlQ/s1024/Microsoft%20Designer%20-%20two%20animals%20with%20nametags%20with%20the%20exact%20names%20Abile%20and%20Ibile%20walking%20down%20the%20street.jpeg"><img alt="ABILE and IBILE (ending adjectives) walking down the street." border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinOfOf_0ja-fDPUeVI5CSafd5G-QbmLua_aaFCJk02YoHMT0i8sSwEyaibjj8hmbXB1hocKt_mjjHtfHxr95gv6ELaT2Gveh79ZR7QWI0ckEXqi82Wot80baZ66Yd3N-gJBioIrKp-YKBDPrJbXsKCX8A45hl_vUShLenml_bViZ8NPrwS8JpBuVfqlQ/w320-h320/Microsoft%20Designer%20-%20two%20animals%20with%20nametags%20with%20the%20exact%20names%20Abile%20and%20Ibile%20walking%20down%20the%20street.jpeg" title="ABILE and IBILE (ending adjectives) walking down the street." width="320" /></a><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">ABILE and IBILE (ending adjectives) walking down the street.<br /></span><br /> I was always confused. Is something “doable” in Italian <i>fattabile</i> or <i>fattibile</i>? Or is something “reliable” <i>affidabile</i> or <i>affidibile</i>? Well, in retrospect it’s easy once you know that the ABILE suffix is used for adjectives deriving from verbs ending in ARE and IBILE is used for all other verbs. It’s <i>fattibile</i> and <i>affidabile</i> from <i>fare</i> and <i>affidare</i>. (Trick question because fare does end in ARE but is not considered part of that family of verbs.) <br /><br />Below is a list of some of the most common ABILE and IBILE adjectives in Italian and the verbs they are derived from. <br /><br />Some notes before getting to the list: <br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>I’m just a maker of lists and observer of patterns, so take this grammar advice with a grain of salt.</li><li>The ABILE adjectives in general are easier to trace to the verb they derive from. The IBILE adjectives are trickier to understand where they came from, at least for us.</li><li>Many adjectives derive from ‘obvious’ verbs and can be checked in a tool like <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/accettabile">wordreference.com.</a> For example, <i>accettabile</i> from <i>accettare</i>.</li><li>Other adjectives - shown with hyperlinks - needed to be checked in Treccani to understand where they came from. These adjectives tended to hark back to a Latin verb form and are marked as “†”.</li><li>The prefixes IN and IR flip the meaning of the adjective but still can be traced to a verb. These are designated below with “*”.</li></ul><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Italian adjectives ending in ABILE and the verbs they derive from </h3><br />accettabile – accettare <br />adattabile – adattare <br />adorabile – adorare <br />affidabile – affidare <br />affrontabile – affrontare <br />ascoltabile – ascoltare <br />attaccabile – attaccare</div><div>confessabile – confessare</div><div>consigliabile – consigliare <br />dominabile – dominare <br />imitabile – imitare</div><div>impensabile – pensare* </div><div>inarrestabile – arrestare*</div><div>indomabile – domare* <br />inevitabile – evitare*<br /><div>influenciabile – influenzare <br />inimitabile – imitare*<br />insospettabile – sospettare* <br />instabile – stare* <br />introvabile – trovare*</div><div>irrealizzabile – realizzare* </div><div><div>irrintracciabile – rintracciare*<br /></div><div>maneggiabile – maneggiare</div></div><div>mangiabile – mangiare <br />miserabile – <a href="https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/miserabile/">commiserare</a> <br />navigabile – navigare <br />negoziable – negoziare <br />orecchiabile – orecchiare <br />pensabile – pensare <br />potabile – <a href="https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/potabile/">potare</a>† <br />probabile – approvare (<a href="https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/ricerca/probare/">probare</a>†)<br /><div>ravvisabile – ravvisare</div><div>realizzabile – realizzare <br />responsabile – <a href="https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/responsabile/">rispondere</a> <br />rintracciabile – rintracciare <br /><div>smontabile – smontare</div></div><div>stabile – stare <br /><div>trattabile – trattare</div></div><div>trovabile – trovare <br />urbanizable – urbanizzare <br />utilizzabile – utilizzare <br />variabile – variare <br /><br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Italian adjectives ending in IBILE and the verbs they derive from </h3><br />accessibile – accedere <br />agibile – agire</div><div>ammissibile – ammettere </div><div>attendibile – attendere <br />bevibile – bere <br />commestibile - <a href="https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/commestibile/">comedĕre</a>† <br />compatibile – compitire? <br />comprensibile – comprendere</div><div>concepibile – concepire <br />correggibile – correggere <br />credibile – credere</div><div>difendibile – defendere </div><div>discutibile – discutere <br />disponibile – <a href="https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/ricerca/disponibile/">disporre</a> <br />edibile – <a href="https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/edibile/">edĕre</a>† <br />fattibile - fare <br />flessibile – <a href="https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/flessibile/">flectĕre</a>† <br /><div>gestibile – gestire</div></div><div>illeggibile – leggere*</div><div>inagibile – agire* <br />inconcepibile – concepire* <br />incorreggibile – correggere* <br />incredibile – credere* <br /><div>indifendibile – defendere* </div></div><div>indiscutibile – discutere* <br />invisibile – vedere* <br />irraggiungibile – raggiungere*</div><div>leggibile – leggere <br />percorribile - percorrere</div><div>possible – potere <br /><div>raggiungibile – raggiungere</div><div>riproducibile – riprodurre</div><div>sensibile – sentire</div><div>visibile – vedere </div></div></div><br /></div>TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com0Bergamo, Province of Bergamo, Italy45.6982642 9.677269817.388030363821152 -25.478980200000002 74.00849803617885 44.8335198tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-69149070975075146862024-02-03T15:15:00.028+01:002024-02-05T11:15:59.533+01:00Update on Our Scrapbook Project<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/02/update-on-our-scrapbook-project.html#history">History</a> ~ <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/02/update-on-our-scrapbook-project.html#growth">Growth</a> ~ <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/02/update-on-our-scrapbook-project.html#recent">Recent Activity</a> ~ <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/02/update-on-our-scrapbook-project.html#scenarios">Interesting Scenarios</a></div><br /><br /><h3 id="history" style="text-align: left;">History </h3><div><br /></div>Scrapbook is what we call our software/service platform that is part personal information management system, part asset management system, part diary and journal, and part digital keepsake. Here are some existing blog entries describing our Scrapbook project:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2017/12/a-personal-information-management-system-introducing-scrapbook.html"><i>2017 introduction</i></a></li><li><a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2019/02/digital-scrapbook-curious-cross-between-cabinet-of-curiosities-and-vademecum.html"><i>2019 parallels with memex</i></a></li><li><a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2021/08/scrapbook-platform-a-personal-information-system-ten-user-scenarios.html"><i>2021 example user scenarios</i></a></li><li><a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2022/01/a-natural-language-query-parser-for-an-information-management-system-called-scrapbook.html"><i>2022 natural language parser</i></a></li></ul><br />Since we started writing about Scrapbook, technologies have come and gone. Technologies we mention in the 2017 post for example have taken a back seat to the new technology of the day AI agents and large language models. That said, throughout the years the basic theme we’ve tried to illustrate and encourage is that you should take ownership of your own data regardless of the technology.<div><br /></div><h3 id="growth" style="text-align: left;">Growth</h3><br />Here are some facts and figures about Scrapbook at it stands at the beginning of 2024. <br /><br />In our main collection “MyJournal”, we have over 16,600 entries distributed over 30 categories. Each entry is a JSON document stored in Azure Cosmos and associated assets (images, videos, documents, etc.) stored in Azure Blob Storage. (We use other Azure services like registry, key vault, app registration, and more.)<div> <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2f-CdsNyd4eqjaW6VUvCWmgmOsuUJ-djOUC6e8lk33XRksUvwvsbLtU3m54D1RRYnk2yIxKJx_Fovfc96UnRy64WeLHTcO83tTqVSv_5JDR_JUcsXV9spv58GC3S-8C_mel8ukwaCv1mW4VX1pNBZeyodjZ4ygz3WbiYtCbBTBzX72y1X1SIST33i_g/s1726/Collection%20growth%20January%202024.png"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2f-CdsNyd4eqjaW6VUvCWmgmOsuUJ-djOUC6e8lk33XRksUvwvsbLtU3m54D1RRYnk2yIxKJx_Fovfc96UnRy64WeLHTcO83tTqVSv_5JDR_JUcsXV9spv58GC3S-8C_mel8ukwaCv1mW4VX1pNBZeyodjZ4ygz3WbiYtCbBTBzX72y1X1SIST33i_g/w235-h225/Collection%20growth%20January%202024.png" width="235" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc5wU9L3NgcPzZL_g1YrWN3jujhPJXIraFcdvx4aGLbmM9ZKYFA6_y4IbAXMwLYg3hQg5gS33QhjKnO7dXdEYqw6NHPMSGzgpFN2n7XjIM_nf_KyxHKgNUixHPwnJKu9FQfPPFdHhnqF_4XlW9biE_F449zzbZAQo7Bm2q-0H2WmtO8ZYFienjpwNlLw/s871/MyJournal%20category%20distribution.png"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc5wU9L3NgcPzZL_g1YrWN3jujhPJXIraFcdvx4aGLbmM9ZKYFA6_y4IbAXMwLYg3hQg5gS33QhjKnO7dXdEYqw6NHPMSGzgpFN2n7XjIM_nf_KyxHKgNUixHPwnJKu9FQfPPFdHhnqF_4XlW9biE_F449zzbZAQo7Bm2q-0H2WmtO8ZYFienjpwNlLw/w335-h225/MyJournal%20category%20distribution.png" width="335" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: Growth of two Scrapbook collections. Right: Category distribution for MyJournal collection.</span></div><div><br /><br />There are over 21,000 links between entries. A link can be something like A is related to B or A is in B. <br /><br />We estimate that we use Scrapbook around 30-60 minutes a day, which means adding new entries, editing existing entries, and looking up information. The amount of development time is another thing! <br /><br />Costs to run our Scrapbook depend on many factors such as amount of storage, services used, and regions selected to name just a few. For example, if you are setting up a prototype of our Scrapbook with minimal services and redundancy, you might be looking at 20 - 50 USD or so a month as a ballpark figure.</div><br /><h3 id="recent" style="text-align: left;">Recent Activity </h3><br />This is what we’ve been up to since the last post. (Utterances are in quotes. Underlined words are a category type or a synonym of a category. We use # and @ as in other platforms for hashtags and mentions.) <br /><br /><b>Containerization </b><br /><br />We moved from Azure App Service to Azure App Containers. There were several assumptions made when using App Service that did not work when going to containers. For example, for our container version of Scrapbook, we needed to re-think our Data Protection Layer and how we were handling/storing session state. Here’s what we followed:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db/nosql/session-state-and-caching-provider">Use Azure Cosmos DB as an ASP.NET session state and caching provider</a></li><li><a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/security/data-protection/configuration/overview?view=aspnetcore-7.0">Configure ASP.NET Core Data Protection</a></li></ul><br /><b>Automated ingest <br /></b><br />We found ourselves doing too much manual work to capture data. So we created hooks to pull in different types of data. <br /><br />For example, our <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/">Travelmarx</a> blog RSS feed (for one post) can be pulled in and automatically converted from HTML to markdown with all the photos pulled in to create a new Scrapbook entry. We have a similar hook we use for Spotify API and our Lostvibe music collection. The goal here is to use Scrapbook as a backup of other content creation points or to automate entry creation. <br /><br /><b>Natural language improvements <br /></b><br />We rewrote from scratch our Natural Language Query Engine (see this <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2022/01/a-natural-language-query-parser-for-an-information-management-system-called-scrapbook.html">post</a>) to use Cognitive Language Understanding (<a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/conversational-language-understanding/overview">CLU</a>). We migrated from Azure LUIS (deprecated) to CLU. <br /><br />The query engine now supports<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Sorting, for example:</li><ul><li>“Show my wines from France sorted by rating”</li><li>“Tell me about books sorted by modified date”</li><li>“What are hikes sorted by length ascending”</li></ul><li>Compound logic (logical operators in queries</li><ul><li>“Show me albums with the keyword cowboy and keyword blue”</li></ul><li>Numerical comparisons (nice for rating fields)</li><ul><li>“Show me hikes longer than 20 km”</li></ul><li>Qualitative comparisons (high, low, great, bad)</li><ul><li>“Show our favorite hikes great than 20 km”</li></ul><li>Inferred queries - “show hashtag XYZ”, “show @person”</li><ul><li>“Show Greece last year”</li><li>“Tell me about @Roberto”</li></ul><li>Negations</li><ul><li>“Show me items without assets”</li><li>“Show me activities except for yoga”</li><li>“Show me food except pasta”</li><li>“Show me books without ratings”</li><li>“Show me dining out without lunch”</li></ul></ul>We know that our NL query engine is a bridge to the time when we can implement Large Language Models (LLM), which at this point seem like our future.<br /><br /><b>First class assets <br /></b><br />We promoted assets to be their own document records in Cosmos. <br /><br />When we started years ago, Item records were the only document type and everything was packed into them. First, we pulled out relationship data (we call them edges) into their own records. Now, we did the same with assets.<div><br />It’s kind of like a normalization you’d do in traditional databases. <br /><br />Asset document records will help us capture richer data around assets as we move forward and not clutter Item records with asset-related data. Think of AI work, OCR, tagging, etc. Updates can be done to each Asset record without updating Item records. While partial updates exist in Cosmos, updating an Item to update Asset info is clumsy. Plus, separate Asset records allow more easily sharing of assets between items. <br /><br /><b>Moving to <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor">Blazor</a> <br /></b><br />The current version of Scrapbook that we run is based on ASP.NET MVC / Web Forms. <br /><br />As described <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/blazor-for-web-forms-developers/architecture-comparison">here</a>, “...ASP.NET Web Forms framework is based on a page-centric architecture. Each HTTP request for a location in the app is a separate page with which ASP.NET responds.” <br /><br />On the other hand, “Blazor is a client-side web UI framework similar in nature to JavaScript front-end frameworks like Angular or React. Blazor handles user interactions and renders the necessary UI updates. Blazor isn't based on a request-reply model. User interactions are handled as events that aren't in the context of any particular HTTP request.” <br /><br />We invested a lot of time in our ASP.NET Core MVC architecture with its server-side razor pages, JavaScript, and Bootstrap. This has proven to be solid for us. And usuable from desktop or mobile. But we are at a point where we can’t make changes as quickly as we’d like and the code is complicated, especially the JavaScript we’ve developed. <br /><br />So, we’ve been working hard on a Blazor implementation of Scrapbook. There is a big difference between these two approaches. As it goes with new technology, you start rearchitecting and rethinking a lot of what you have done not so well 😊. </div><div><br /></div><h3 id="scenarios" style="text-align: left;">Interesting Scenarios </h3><br />We covered scenarios in the post: <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2021/08/scrapbook-platform-a-personal-information-system-ten-user-scenarios.html"><i>Scrapbook Platform – A Personal Information System – Ten User Scenarios</i></a>. Here we’ll mention just a few others we find particularly useful. <br /><br /><b>Organizing and documenting trips <br /></b><br />We are now using Scrapbook to stub out upcoming trips. If work turns out to just be planning, that’s fine. We keep it in Scrapbook. Our philosophy is of it is something we spent time to prepare, something we learned about, we save it. Chances are it could be useful later. <br /><br />Years later, it’s easy and gratifying to use a simple query to pull up everything related to the trip. For example, with our Natural Language query capability, we can say “Show hashtag #Turkey2023” and pull up all the related items for the trip. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWv7U6aH8cwG4bKmZ0ZonQGHkwDtvzXOCqS3ppO6gGpE5jSODYkLFhj7l6PAqBnK-RozGhI_1TYVGcjY0wcYOjeSv2Nj0KIlAq49tI3cNSwixJ7rGx0cieVWGhvho2ZMQuxMIo9hLvWfnFbylDybpbZoPJ03xDk0VZ2Qe8oQGp2Ghshx06XEWXsa2dyA/s1534/show%20hashtag%20turkey2023.png"><img alt="show hashtag turkey2023" border="0" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWv7U6aH8cwG4bKmZ0ZonQGHkwDtvzXOCqS3ppO6gGpE5jSODYkLFhj7l6PAqBnK-RozGhI_1TYVGcjY0wcYOjeSv2Nj0KIlAq49tI3cNSwixJ7rGx0cieVWGhvho2ZMQuxMIo9hLvWfnFbylDybpbZoPJ03xDk0VZ2Qe8oQGp2Ghshx06XEWXsa2dyA/w320-h282/show%20hashtag%20turkey2023.png" title="show hashtag turkey2023" width="320" /></a><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Query "show hashtag Turkey2023". Behind each of these image tiles is as much data about the item as we put in. Who, what, where, when and how.<br /></span><br />Staying on the theme of Turkey, we could also query:<div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>“Show <u>museums</u> in Istanbul”</li><li>“Show me <u>hotels</u> in Pamukkale, Turkey”</li><li>“What were our favorite <u>restaurants</u> in within 10 km of Ephesus”</li></ul>We often get asked by friends for travel recommendations. Our platform makes it easier to pull out this information. <br /><br /><br /><b>Capturing recurring themes <br /></b><br />It’s often the case that the same subject comes up in different contexts (a museum exhibition, a talk) and it captures our attention. For example, in September 2023 we went to a museum in Spoleto where we saw Beverly Pepper sculptures. The name seemed familiar, and it was because we had saved an article 10 years ago in Scrapbook that was about her. It was very gratifying to make the connection between the new entry and the old entry. <br /><br />Another example is an idea that we return to a lot in different contexts and that is “memory house”. We can links items together dealing with the subject and create a hashtag to quickly access them. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4R9hC0VrESTSFOi-2nnrXxWEly67_ZkcK2_PSvNMeiZ27W7nTANuhOuKTUch4d9bnpuoBHqXzHPm7oJD95lVf8SGDuuPgFxAihC61B1FYzmNBdhRL0nTejr-ArzSdGMWrDwcD1Ypij2pgmBTBmdCKJHg10cq5F0MXTRiBwFbzrvnDQeA4M-p-N8iuSg/s1365/show%20hashtag%20memoryhouse%20-%20redacted.png"><img alt="show hashtag memoryhouse - redacted" border="0" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4R9hC0VrESTSFOi-2nnrXxWEly67_ZkcK2_PSvNMeiZ27W7nTANuhOuKTUch4d9bnpuoBHqXzHPm7oJD95lVf8SGDuuPgFxAihC61B1FYzmNBdhRL0nTejr-ArzSdGMWrDwcD1Ypij2pgmBTBmdCKJHg10cq5F0MXTRiBwFbzrvnDQeA4M-p-N8iuSg/w322-h231/show%20hashtag%20memoryhouse%20-%20redacted.png" title="show hashtag memoryhouse - redacted" width="322" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9v5_drZEkSW49BHFei2GOva4vF3yCNP8BYLAcnRlb5pmiHtWfsEuCpSigX5eqFV5LVbOkotZOwelgHqxMB239Ujql71sE6o9iPu44eXS2sKvjAGlu2ShH3ma8lEZdvOMoRIP6uTJP9-TVZ8LMbzT-r8azIcYhJnhGLlI4t9z2gL7PAgN2C1-rwUd7hA/s1039/Show%20exhibits%20with%20Hayez%20-%20annotated.png"><img alt="Show exhibits with Hayez - redacted" border="0" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9v5_drZEkSW49BHFei2GOva4vF3yCNP8BYLAcnRlb5pmiHtWfsEuCpSigX5eqFV5LVbOkotZOwelgHqxMB239Ujql71sE6o9iPu44eXS2sKvjAGlu2ShH3ma8lEZdvOMoRIP6uTJP9-TVZ8LMbzT-r8azIcYhJnhGLlI4t9z2gL7PAgN2C1-rwUd7hA/w245-h230/Show%20exhibits%20with%20Hayez%20-%20annotated.png" title="Show exhibits with Hayez - redacted" width="245" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: Query "show hashtag memoryhouse". Right: "show <u>exhibits</u> with hayez".</span></div><div><br /><br />Other examples:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>“Show me <u>articles</u> with democracy”</li><li>“Show me <u>books</u> about naples”</li><li>“Show me items with Pythagoras”.</li></ul><br /><b>Collection of ideas <br /></b><br />We’ve started thinking that our platform is really a “research platform”. The things it contains could be about physical things, but just as easily about ideas or anything really. <br /><br />Take our category “Books”. It includes books we’ve read and own and ones we haven’t read or don’t own. For example, when friends recommend books to us, and we make notes on them, and may read them, but always save any information as a “book” entry. Also, we often read a lot about a book and understand its major themes but never actually read it. We make a note of all that information and save it as a book entry. This is the sense of research platform that we are talking about. <br /><br />Another example is our “Botanical” category. It contains plants we own, we owned and don’t anymore, and ones we may have seen in a garden somewhere. The idea is to give all these plants an “entry” in Scrapbook.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO0JVxsUVQRShhNhKdt-MYDYZgykcLIDk16FVkqlQWT0tqHBPjbiCpdfQQv76QKaQvjgqLRwFqKmB6uyDMChVfVh7tOi0YdhwprYmCq0pbcGg6S0ipzpovhyphenhyphenUZnPN9Uo8Q96j90xEx9vzckIfNHRK5_gmESlKFuBxRNsG2jz86uUgtc1NMy82WA72Z0g/s1378/show%20books%20-%20redacted%20-%20card%20view.png"><img alt="show books - redacted - card view" border="0" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO0JVxsUVQRShhNhKdt-MYDYZgykcLIDk16FVkqlQWT0tqHBPjbiCpdfQQv76QKaQvjgqLRwFqKmB6uyDMChVfVh7tOi0YdhwprYmCq0pbcGg6S0ipzpovhyphenhyphenUZnPN9Uo8Q96j90xEx9vzckIfNHRK5_gmESlKFuBxRNsG2jz86uUgtc1NMy82WA72Z0g/w196-h204/show%20books%20-%20redacted%20-%20card%20view.png" title="show books - redacted - card view" width="196" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj-XSXFnT6414zJwJHofILef67At3xlDlHFYy56UKpc77jONdVL2unyVglx5JJNrgYshI64x96BpM3sv7m6950GD2wqnwxvixW2NLgCdPbiBIksm7uwWEby0s5dwvXRtX5Rpo7OqI8-Nb5ZqJl41oVhWjRRSImij6_g9Z5CY5UK0x83Y797VudfV4zZQ/s1593/show%20books%20in%202005.png"><img alt="show books in 2005" border="0" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj-XSXFnT6414zJwJHofILef67At3xlDlHFYy56UKpc77jONdVL2unyVglx5JJNrgYshI64x96BpM3sv7m6950GD2wqnwxvixW2NLgCdPbiBIksm7uwWEby0s5dwvXRtX5Rpo7OqI8-Nb5ZqJl41oVhWjRRSImij6_g9Z5CY5UK0x83Y797VudfV4zZQ/w383-h207/show%20books%20in%202005.png" title="show books in 2005" width="383" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: Query "show <u>books</u>" in card view. Right: Query "show <u>books </u>in 2005" in list view.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBZNkZeb7bM20CVyOj8G5_TtrAUK0vKsDM_tdC9ERoHbG-7X_8Iz_wo3GXMB_nWIwR5-AK6xk5vasETu1rCtoawZ9SAlfwp2PCas0J1yCn5vcol1bfqCDkI1hPh79OhYfDsKQS5YqXdK4lweCxmIxUOXK6HpwAh_JETU7E27I-paoZZVJujZBLN-7Smw/s1168/show%20botanical%20-%20image%20view.png"><img alt="show botanical - image view" border="0" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBZNkZeb7bM20CVyOj8G5_TtrAUK0vKsDM_tdC9ERoHbG-7X_8Iz_wo3GXMB_nWIwR5-AK6xk5vasETu1rCtoawZ9SAlfwp2PCas0J1yCn5vcol1bfqCDkI1hPh79OhYfDsKQS5YqXdK4lweCxmIxUOXK6HpwAh_JETU7E27I-paoZZVJujZBLN-7Smw/w200-h165/show%20botanical%20-%20image%20view.png" title="show botanical - image view" width="200" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Query "show <u>botanical</u>" in image view.</span></div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div>Other example queries:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>“Show <u>books</u> read in 2005”</li><li>“Show <u>plants</u> in the family Crassulaceae”</li></ul><div><br /></div><b>Museum visits are more interesting <br /></b><br />We like going to museums. We often find that we are standing in front of a work (say a painting) and wondering if we’ve seen it before. Often, we think yes, we have. But how to know that? We take out our phones and search for the artist's name in our “exhibition” category. If we find that we have something about the artist, it makes the museum experience richer for us. A connection is made. It’s like having a personal reference guide and context always on hand. <br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-5ZxUa6_V_yFF7gzVtD8a2ezZqQQvZKGORwVQLmiQq14ypxI5AVmSWcJd-_OlO5zNPab3ncBzGCfCJk2UYzIdmSqNDU1p88eqRpj11qVcjjjv_ZEprHpB96Ndcix4rGursWysuUYnbLwIcaKFubNkv1XPkqxHrm9JB0LXPawAaCzmg4xjAjs-4ObgCg/s1030/show%20assets%20with%20lorenzo%20lotto.png"><img alt="show assets with lorenzo lotto" border="0" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-5ZxUa6_V_yFF7gzVtD8a2ezZqQQvZKGORwVQLmiQq14ypxI5AVmSWcJd-_OlO5zNPab3ncBzGCfCJk2UYzIdmSqNDU1p88eqRpj11qVcjjjv_ZEprHpB96Ndcix4rGursWysuUYnbLwIcaKFubNkv1XPkqxHrm9JB0LXPawAaCzmg4xjAjs-4ObgCg/w320-h297/show%20assets%20with%20lorenzo%20lotto.png" title="show assets with lorenzo lotto" width="320" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWu_gL_KAd9XI6G_3SfzOdsDin6N5oOdnlmKDTh_2Q6Ldq8LseVq5vvrysgy09d1fYa7wn8Ukx0qtApQdpouEDD6QAmgEpny8uPaynBvM68ZXtW0vEncDVVonnjBe0a87WTYhZpGDxDKfpM2r7VS4ovXVJcMN2yI8mqv3nPYkOHxzDGx-8rtUOf1H13g/s1210/show%20assets%20with%20Picasso.png"><img alt="show assets with Picasso" border="0" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWu_gL_KAd9XI6G_3SfzOdsDin6N5oOdnlmKDTh_2Q6Ldq8LseVq5vvrysgy09d1fYa7wn8Ukx0qtApQdpouEDD6QAmgEpny8uPaynBvM68ZXtW0vEncDVVonnjBe0a87WTYhZpGDxDKfpM2r7VS4ovXVJcMN2yI8mqv3nPYkOHxzDGx-8rtUOf1H13g/w250-h292/show%20assets%20with%20Picasso.png" title="show assets with Picasso" width="250" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: Query "show assets with lorenzo lotto". Right: Query "Show assets with picasso".<br /></span></div><div><br />Other related queries:<br /></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>“Show me <u>exhibits</u> with Picasso sorted by date in ascending order</li><li>“Tell me about <u>museums</u> in Milan, Italy”</li><li>“What are <u>exhibits</u> that we really liked in 2022”.</li><li>“Show <u>exhibits</u> with ‘video installation’"</li></ul></div></div>TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com0Seattle, WA, USA47.6061389 -122.332848119.295905063821152 -157.4890981 75.916372736178843 -87.1765981tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-82074546380949628752024-02-02T09:00:00.003+01:002024-02-05T16:57:24.736+01:00Visitors to Bergamo – The Things We Wish They Would Notice<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhQVbVe-5CD-u2f_FCT7kFVYkRFUAK9POxhABVQOSWel6i_zC3j5yV-Fsl11rsLyaBJ2snbL-AfFmNvtLNxTPT30E4347qG-vQBqWFYikmlTr2e13ymON0SxBnw-qlJ4p0rq5lqv6xWEqoJnengv79gKfOrdt2e6OUzlol8Izzw6hMeGj45de2yx6uIQ/s4032/Carosello%20and%20Torre%20dei%20caduti.jpg"><img alt="Carosello and Torre dei caduti - Lower City Bergamo" border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhQVbVe-5CD-u2f_FCT7kFVYkRFUAK9POxhABVQOSWel6i_zC3j5yV-Fsl11rsLyaBJ2snbL-AfFmNvtLNxTPT30E4347qG-vQBqWFYikmlTr2e13ymON0SxBnw-qlJ4p0rq5lqv6xWEqoJnengv79gKfOrdt2e6OUzlol8Izzw6hMeGj45de2yx6uIQ/w138-h185/Carosello%20and%20Torre%20dei%20caduti.jpg" title="Carosello and Torre dei caduti - Lower City Bergamo" width="138" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3MxvB5kJKx57mvqur3NUDPn19Pbi4Pr7LYK-ZGLXr4DxS4bbCSq60tjIDrMhQA-oljqivyetJFthM9JHdzEmT55HUfsQqzAM7EUgQiiiPJm-R8A_SFAatf2ia0u5KWiICoAVmGb1CHbubIDYJvWwMlsZgZQHEBfrcCuV8a5vqBgOXvGQYiGcJKX3YKQ/s4032/Piazza%20Duomo%20Bergamo%20Alta.jpg"><img alt="Piazza Duomo Bergamo Alta" border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3MxvB5kJKx57mvqur3NUDPn19Pbi4Pr7LYK-ZGLXr4DxS4bbCSq60tjIDrMhQA-oljqivyetJFthM9JHdzEmT55HUfsQqzAM7EUgQiiiPJm-R8A_SFAatf2ia0u5KWiICoAVmGb1CHbubIDYJvWwMlsZgZQHEBfrcCuV8a5vqBgOXvGQYiGcJKX3YKQ/w139-h185/Piazza%20Duomo%20Bergamo%20Alta.jpg" title="Piazza Duomo Bergamo Alta" width="139" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_1GMXG9kiScm9V1t7L9NeO73otGoW4HfuPgGXHm1dtQwaxx09WZChVKx8rvYOWZs39XWvuQ4W5XpohBxcgvIhGdy8lfkO8hAvfJ6dN3GPc8bO_8aiyWdxHVd4ybf3bfCc5kuJenttrX_REhSWmv8S3Y96aZrYCi5XhGfrA4Ux96TayXh4UEPj5L0gLQ/s4032/Senterione%20Citt%C3%A0%20Bassa.jpg"><img alt="Senterione Città Bassa" border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_1GMXG9kiScm9V1t7L9NeO73otGoW4HfuPgGXHm1dtQwaxx09WZChVKx8rvYOWZs39XWvuQ4W5XpohBxcgvIhGdy8lfkO8hAvfJ6dN3GPc8bO_8aiyWdxHVd4ybf3bfCc5kuJenttrX_REhSWmv8S3Y96aZrYCi5XhGfrA4Ux96TayXh4UEPj5L0gLQ/w138-h184/Senterione%20Citt%C3%A0%20Bassa.jpg" title="Senterione Città Bassa" width="138" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7ijmkIuGwLZNh_kQAPv5pYw3rsm5q8ncdQEM7alXqI0vkmbZhPYDowHd0bet3yd9RGPRnP0rDL72DGEKi1LkMjoGYxLLEnSCDVhuly38iZjC8nGPZcqOwbOXkqWS_qywloGACvhLg6geMVw0mcvcV2w8hzOLfosj-9P06uk2PRYyySqjAQGBiCW16Vw/s4032/Venetian%20Walls%20along%20Baluardo%20di%20San%20Michele.jpg"><img alt="Venetian Walls along Baluardo di San Michele" border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7ijmkIuGwLZNh_kQAPv5pYw3rsm5q8ncdQEM7alXqI0vkmbZhPYDowHd0bet3yd9RGPRnP0rDL72DGEKi1LkMjoGYxLLEnSCDVhuly38iZjC8nGPZcqOwbOXkqWS_qywloGACvhLg6geMVw0mcvcV2w8hzOLfosj-9P06uk2PRYyySqjAQGBiCW16Vw/w138-h184/Venetian%20Walls%20along%20Baluardo%20di%20San%20Michele.jpg" title="Venetian Walls along Baluardo di San Michele" width="138" /></a><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: Carosello and Torre dei caduti - Lower City Bergamo.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Center left: Piazza Duomo Bergamo Alta.<br />Center right: Senterione Città Bassa Bergamo.<br />Right: Venetian Walls along Baluardo di San Michele in Bergamo.<br /></span> <div>There is no perfect visitor, no perfect host. <br /><br />As a host you can’t control your visitors’ experiences of your beloved hometown. They will notice what they notice. They will be amazed (or not) by what they see. Be happy that they are visiting. (And we are.) <br /><br />When we host visitors, we notice what they respond to because it makes us think about our own reactions when we are the visitors. It's like looking in a mirror. <br /><br />We’ve had visitors from 13 to 73 years of age. We’ve done the rounds in Bergamo so many times we can’t count them. Pass through the <i>città alta</i>, <i>basilica</i>, <i>duomo</i>, <i>la rocca</i>, <i>colle aperto</i>, <i>piazza vecchia</i>, <i>città bassa</i>, <i>Centro Piacentiniano</i>, <i>sentierone</i>, <i>Papavero</i>, and <i>Il Coccio</i>. After that, it's walks to discover the <i>scalette</i> of Bergamo, San Vigilio, and Maresana, and beyond. At times, we’ve hired guides. Other times, we are the guides. We’ve chosen restaurant experiences with our visitors' preferences in mind: eat-everything, gluten-free, vegetarians, and vegans. <br /><br />We try to make the tour relevant to who is visiting. We’ve even forced museum experiences on visitors to some success. <br /><br />What we have noted is that visitors – on average - don’t see the things we want them to notice and be blown away with, like the architecture, the geometry of the city, the rhythm of the <i>piazza</i>, the church bells, the abandoned and evocative buildings, the mighty UNESCO Venetian defense walls, the greengrocers, and thousands of other things WE love. To be fair, visitors do see some of that, but are just as easily focused on knickknacks, a brand of candy not available back home, a cute dog, or a Dodge Chevy Van (very out of place here). <br /><br />This post shows photographs of the things what I wish our visitors would notice more of and ask about. We are okay with dealing with a little <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stendhal_syndrome"><i>Stendhal syndrome</i></a>. (We know some good doctors and a trip the hospital is another way of discovering Bergamo. The hospital is like a little city in itself with its namesake Papa Giovanni XXIII greeting you as you enter.) <div><br /></div>Some anecdotes from visitors throughout the years:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>“The houses [palazzi] are so close together, I couldn’t live like that” said one. Another: “Why aren’t there more balconies!”. (Bonus points for noticing the architecture.)</li><li>We followed one visitor into every trinket shop that had model cars. (Bonus point for making us go into shops we never visit.)</li><li>We often have visitors that become obsessed with something – often for good reason but not always: medicine, sunscreen, shoelaces, cooking pots, the perfect gift to take back. So, our time is spent looking for these things. (Granted this can be fun, but it’s not the things we want them to spend their time on!)</li><li>One visitor was intrigued with taking photographs from our house’s top floor but complained about the roof antennas and cranes.</li><li>One visitor staying with us complained we didn’t have enough meat in the meals we prepared over several days. Also: that we ate too healthy.</li><li>We walked through the lower city with one visitor, who talked about their problems and themselves the whole time and didn’t stop and look up to ask a question or notice anything. (I call that snow globe travel. These visitors take their world from back home with them. Shake it up to get their problems falling on them no matter where they are.)</li><li>One repeat visitor talks effusively about where they have been, who they stayed with, and where they are going, but not a word about where they are, at the moment, in Bergamo. (They are visiting, so Bergamo must be special? Still, it’s an odd habit. We can only imagine they are talking about Bergamo on the next stop of their trip?)</li><li>Visitors who touch things inappropriately, especially in museums.</li><li>One visitor - not ours - we encountered wondered where they could find more “medieval-like” places to see how it once was. As if the upper city of Bergamo didn’t throw you back in time enough? Should we all be recreating scenes for people who visit? (See the book <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Shelter">Time Shelter</a></i> by Georgi Gospodinov.)</li></ul><br />In defense of our visitors, we understand they may be tired, out of their element, overwhelmed. They did make the trip here, and in a sense that's enough. It’s about time together. <br /><br />We'll end with this Maya Angelou quote: “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” A good thing to keep in mind as hosts. <br /><br /><br /><a agata="" carmine.jpg="" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3OH85Ysl1xStxliMYaubrs5z6tnNy8QmT8hBdEoKlxqzwNGeRDYOTX-Qo8e18SM7GiqCCommn9oxi8IvQfjHZb-kCjSIjTPxPGT9XIfN-Z-HIwY6mBETUB5O5K62GVx9hT74Wp7jsCb1FWzelBUH9wykOxEAKjQjAPKxKaAkKgkNZBBBEFwaB0Moctg/s4032/Chapel%20in%20Chiesa%20di%20Sant" nel=""><img agata="" alt="Chapel in Chiesa di Sant'Agata nel Carmine" border="0" carmine.jpg="" height="185" nel="" 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEZxWlXjfLh7xJrzQkTnq2f7p-m_D3pHdaq-aV7C9X8bKRDWpJY2en3s58Ru_VK0ugxyAX5al2nCDFkXbaPlzkXdJDDm7jpX5fAG86sg8AvgQ9d6Mis_eK8WdOq1M8c3ksYQsq6Lbs0y11xmnn4SpX9d3dSuzVfUdld_WXahlSXayOT1XHYrAERaf6KQ/s4032/A%20door%20on%20Via%20San%20Alessandro.jpg"><img alt="A door on Via San Alessandro" border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEZxWlXjfLh7xJrzQkTnq2f7p-m_D3pHdaq-aV7C9X8bKRDWpJY2en3s58Ru_VK0ugxyAX5al2nCDFkXbaPlzkXdJDDm7jpX5fAG86sg8AvgQ9d6Mis_eK8WdOq1M8c3ksYQsq6Lbs0y11xmnn4SpX9d3dSuzVfUdld_WXahlSXayOT1XHYrAERaf6KQ/w138-h184/A%20door%20on%20Via%20San%20Alessandro.jpg" title="A door on Via San Alessandro" width="138" /></a> <a alessandro="" bergamo.jpg="" croce="" della="" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyWh_XZjj3_s7UCUfFsMpMsmR8WGE2e0cRNSgpzjfJ_pG_gi5p6LR08_90cJRtzl2sPhcEze8o-PL6npAD6olG17MSM_LE8zfBE08p0tYBX0BactWWZAvBQBTYtL8KGzHDqxrI5YFpFJyaWtr52vASxmCHLONliEHBCUW1PkY1IxjhgGE8Hs7TrLXtCw/s4032/Christmas%20tree%20in%20front%20of%20Sant"><img alessandro="" alt="Christmas tree in front of Sant'Alessandro della Croce, Bergamo" bergamo.jpg="" border="0" croce="" della="" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyWh_XZjj3_s7UCUfFsMpMsmR8WGE2e0cRNSgpzjfJ_pG_gi5p6LR08_90cJRtzl2sPhcEze8o-PL6npAD6olG17MSM_LE8zfBE08p0tYBX0BactWWZAvBQBTYtL8KGzHDqxrI5YFpFJyaWtr52vASxmCHLONliEHBCUW1PkY1IxjhgGE8Hs7TrLXtCw/w138-h184/Christmas%20tree%20in%20front%20of%20Sant" title="Christmas tree in front of Sant'Alessandro della Croce, Bergamo" width="138" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Around Bergamo: Wisteria in bloom, Asphodelus, an ornate door, a Christmas tree in front of Sant'Alessandro della Croce.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>For more Bergamo imagery, see our post <i><a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2017/03/sabbatical-lessons-thoughts-and-stories-from-our-italian-sabbatical.html">Sabbatical Lessons: Thoughts and Stories from our Italian Sabbaticals</a></i>.<br /><br /></div></div></div>TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com0Bergamo, Province of Bergamo, Italy45.6982642 9.677269817.388030363821152 -25.478980200000002 74.00849803617885 44.8335198tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-6965325638216229852024-02-01T09:00:00.019+01:002024-02-01T09:40:13.346+01:00Street Sign Language Lesson XLIII<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2023/10/street-sign-language-lesson-xlii-lamentations.html">previous lesson</a> | this lesson</div><br />Our first Street Sign Language Lesson of 2024 and we have a mixed bag of signs, six found in and around Bergamo and two signs (flagged below) seen in our ski outings coming and going to Passo del Tonale. (For example, see <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/01/two-short-winter-hikes-in-passo-del-tonale-italy.html"><i>Two Short Winter Hikes in Passo del Tonale, Italy</i></a> and <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/01/a-visit-to-parco-naquane-to-see-val-camonica-rock-drawings-unesco.html"><i>A Visit to Parco Naquane to See Paleolithic and Neolithic Rock Drawings in the Val Camonica</i></a>.) <div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEtXMzVBr9iPOsBBMKte5MiQKVlL8-PdpU55R4HXuc3wLeUMCtTaMpB6Wu-mBU84f_EAA13v5fBUkrN2wzgroQ9H7aAUWajlkdoj6xh-RqonOjfepXH2po8dbcDcxr8MD1EUFSaTp4tva2xLXEJl5pX1-sG1bh2LSfxcQn_w-TtK8LQD2DQDz4_tbkJg/s4032/Attenzione%20vernice%20fresca.JPG"><img alt="Attenzione vernice fresca" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEtXMzVBr9iPOsBBMKte5MiQKVlL8-PdpU55R4HXuc3wLeUMCtTaMpB6Wu-mBU84f_EAA13v5fBUkrN2wzgroQ9H7aAUWajlkdoj6xh-RqonOjfepXH2po8dbcDcxr8MD1EUFSaTp4tva2xLXEJl5pX1-sG1bh2LSfxcQn_w-TtK8LQD2DQDz4_tbkJg/w150-h200/Attenzione%20vernice%20fresca.JPG" title="Attenzione vernice fresca" width="150" /></a><br /><br />[<b>1] <i>ATTENZIONE VERNICE FRESCA</i></b><div>“Caution: fresh paint” <br /><br />I love simple signs, written in typical all capitals that get to the point like this one does. <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/vernice"><i>Vernice</i></a> is “paint or varnish” and is feminine so the adjective <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/fresco"><i>fresco</i></a> “fresh or new” agrees with it by adding an “A”. </div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIMqLYD8hJFJUu-xLJuIJpsLQPXSJUz05AUHrqRf-vbKQGOuALy-iirOCvWtRz8mmlxlyAh0RG-5_obAZI7asxmwOboftUsSOrzcXhL7vrM5Nc4GYWlYxbr1HOx0n5jFNLpkHkDNJhXc8cyM1COelD7b_CGgdm442zjsB1UFGKoJ477-DWNz9URxIFgg/s4032/Cambiami%20alla%20casa.JPG"><img alt="Cambiami alla casa" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIMqLYD8hJFJUu-xLJuIJpsLQPXSJUz05AUHrqRf-vbKQGOuALy-iirOCvWtRz8mmlxlyAh0RG-5_obAZI7asxmwOboftUsSOrzcXhL7vrM5Nc4GYWlYxbr1HOx0n5jFNLpkHkDNJhXc8cyM1COelD7b_CGgdm442zjsB1UFGKoJ477-DWNz9URxIFgg/w200-h150/Cambiami%20alla%20casa.JPG" title="Cambiami alla casa" width="200" /></a><div><br /><b>[2] CAMBIAMI ALLA CASA</b></div><div>“Change me at the register”<div><br />This is an example of a sign that catches me off guard for a few seconds before I realize what is going on. Ah, this is liquor and instead of taking the bottle to the cash register, you take this card and exchange it for the bottle. Theoretically, this avoids theft. The verb is <i><b>cambiare</b></i> and this is the imperative form <i>cambia</i> + <i>mi</i> = <i>cambiami</i>. This is an informal command. If it were formal, it would be two words <i>mi cambi</i>. No need to be formal with thieves. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFhAf3P6Q6wau3Mgw2Jg4vFjsXbPmMKuejSnpbVLy936ZM18MlNm1RvJKOXvfggziW12XkDnfm5WHQsHyshi4rP9ZEAORDm_YbDKprgnU6SSVVsnyAbZ6B2iC4o7H115akCZoKvHVVAd9bInAfJ5YfgWvaWn1SI1ewPGPSrC80TxNBKX7BSQk9_Ti2Zg/s4032/Collare%20cattura%20larve%20processionaria%20del%20pino%201.JPG"><img alt="Collare cattura larve processionaria del pino" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFhAf3P6Q6wau3Mgw2Jg4vFjsXbPmMKuejSnpbVLy936ZM18MlNm1RvJKOXvfggziW12XkDnfm5WHQsHyshi4rP9ZEAORDm_YbDKprgnU6SSVVsnyAbZ6B2iC4o7H115akCZoKvHVVAd9bInAfJ5YfgWvaWn1SI1ewPGPSrC80TxNBKX7BSQk9_Ti2Zg/w150-h200/Collare%20cattura%20larve%20processionaria%20del%20pino%201.JPG" title="Collare cattura larve processionaria del pino" width="150" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE9PwRb-Ftz2sWb4wnnAk1C2pzs3ESNOGFCR9xXPSSUZc7hpiYJqgV9Ncwrg9Bt6ZQ8qYir_oiM2ONF8CPOW_G0ToR1o7Or2-gY8iLRJ8dAcp8x6PWI1HU19ZRB5D7NlddNPyAqYUmiPQkENltJQ4MbHqUC7vXtEqPjd3vdOQrF8WpB8FTImuJTJhjsQ/s4032/Collare%20cattura%20larve%20processionaria%20del%20pino%202.JPG"><img alt="Collare cattura larve processionaria del pino" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE9PwRb-Ftz2sWb4wnnAk1C2pzs3ESNOGFCR9xXPSSUZc7hpiYJqgV9Ncwrg9Bt6ZQ8qYir_oiM2ONF8CPOW_G0ToR1o7Or2-gY8iLRJ8dAcp8x6PWI1HU19ZRB5D7NlddNPyAqYUmiPQkENltJQ4MbHqUC7vXtEqPjd3vdOQrF8WpB8FTImuJTJhjsQ/w150-h200/Collare%20cattura%20larve%20processionaria%20del%20pino%202.JPG" title="Collare cattura larve processionaria del pino" width="150" /></a></div><div><br /></div><b>[3] <i>Intervento di lotta alla processionaria, Collare cattura larve processionaria del pino</i></b><div>“Measure to control the processionary, collar for capturing the larvae of the processionary.” <br /><br />We visited the Parco Naquane (see this <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/01/a-visit-to-parco-naquane-to-see-val-camonica-rock-drawings-unesco.html">post</a>) to see petroglyphs and saw this sign on pine trees. It was a huge relief because we had seen these “things” around tree trunks for some time and wondering what they were. Here, park management thoughtfully put up a sign explaining what’s going on.<br /><br />It’s about fighting the <i><a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/processionaria">processionaria</a> del <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/pino">pino</a></i> – an insect / worm that infects pine trees. In English, we call it the pine processionary (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_processionary"><i>Thaumetopoea pityocampa</i></a>). It’s a moth that in its life stage as a caterpillar, overwinters in tent-like nests high in pine trees, and then can be found moving in nose-to-tail lines (“procession”), protected from predators by irritating hairs.<br /><br />These <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/collare"><i>collare</i></a> or “collars” around the trees and trap the worms as they come down from their tents.</div><div><br /></div><div>(We didn't seeing any petroglyphs depicting caterpillars.)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2GKL8wpKAoxUqLft7uZAHtOqrFAyzdVzq4C_-pB8N3STZ7_aKsPj7ugC7bCNXkgFSTxvI-c71tGpvn_zoonzFlHosGgXcocHQES0XAYBiDITwrNkN-VD1tBkfj-FySU52hKLX-n3gcgbXxKjM8zPdGcv22MjBaYrJm_ZB4ZtBSDZ2QC1ANbBZUJDGiQ/s4032/La%20focaccia%20materasso.JPG"><img alt="La focaccia materasso" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2GKL8wpKAoxUqLft7uZAHtOqrFAyzdVzq4C_-pB8N3STZ7_aKsPj7ugC7bCNXkgFSTxvI-c71tGpvn_zoonzFlHosGgXcocHQES0XAYBiDITwrNkN-VD1tBkfj-FySU52hKLX-n3gcgbXxKjM8zPdGcv22MjBaYrJm_ZB4ZtBSDZ2QC1ANbBZUJDGiQ/w200-h150/La%20focaccia%20materasso.JPG" title="La focaccia materasso" width="200" /></a></div><div><br /><b>[4] <i>La focaccia ‘materasso’</i></b></div><div>“Mattress focaccia” <br /><br />Well, doesn’t it look like a <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/materasso"><i>materasso</i></a> or “mattress”? </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDLwWoXnSGr5L8K92SC7e6WoqJ60Yjq5GwnnPYAC4mR_ka3KTI58ym0JOFMw1qw7O7VmQqov_pGaIf2tvdq6cLeHK8sUGwXb3pTLOqYtyEnVFhetTB1L5VinInfZI_t1CmlClJW1CXX7Ubm6alhEXKDhMpKPViIwot1qL6jP9E2MC1P9JABxMEQNwbmA/s4032/Salviette%20intime%20biogradabili%20per%20animali%20.JPG"><img alt="Salviette intime biogradabili per animali" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDLwWoXnSGr5L8K92SC7e6WoqJ60Yjq5GwnnPYAC4mR_ka3KTI58ym0JOFMw1qw7O7VmQqov_pGaIf2tvdq6cLeHK8sUGwXb3pTLOqYtyEnVFhetTB1L5VinInfZI_t1CmlClJW1CXX7Ubm6alhEXKDhMpKPViIwot1qL6jP9E2MC1P9JABxMEQNwbmA/w150-h200/Salviette%20intime%20biogradabili%20per%20animali%20.JPG" title="Salviette intime biogradabili per animali" width="150" /></a></div><div><br /><b>[5] <i>Salviette intime biodegradabili per animali</i></b><div>“Biodegradable intimate (baby) wipes for animals” <br /><br />Some things are like flashing signs of how convoluted society has become and this is one of them. Baby wipes for your pets. But rest assured they are biodegradable. <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/salvietta"><i>Salvietta</i></a> is a “small napkin or towel”. <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/intimo"><i>Intimo</i></a> or “intimate” is intimate with agreement – feminine plural – with <i>salviette</i>. <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/biodegradabile"><i>Biodegradabile</i></a> is one of those adjectives that can only be plural one way (making our life easier) with “I”. Enough said. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKoE8eukhlZstJhQ_U6a2Shu-Nv8VrS-qh0oiuVCDGzT_YcZItiQ3GjJdKG-25ydiIWbmz-k7oWIZ0jp-3zPUNUbKWBD2zNJZYH05gax-99rklSjNKI-FtPpTwSMWnv9ahtHqL0MWE7plmpw2IFRuaTWCn6rvyzPGd1L4ueQ91N-YsaGQq5e1J-20nhA/s4032/Se%20ci%20fossero%20problemi.JPG"><img alt="Se ci fossero problemi" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKoE8eukhlZstJhQ_U6a2Shu-Nv8VrS-qh0oiuVCDGzT_YcZItiQ3GjJdKG-25ydiIWbmz-k7oWIZ0jp-3zPUNUbKWBD2zNJZYH05gax-99rklSjNKI-FtPpTwSMWnv9ahtHqL0MWE7plmpw2IFRuaTWCn6rvyzPGd1L4ueQ91N-YsaGQq5e1J-20nhA/w200-h150/Se%20ci%20fossero%20problemi.JPG" title="Se ci fossero problemi" width="200" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><b>[6] <i>Se ci fossero problemi chiamateci al [redacted] o suonate il citofono</i></b><div>“If there’s a problem, call us at [redacted] or ring our bell” <br /><br />I love polite signs and polite neighbors who use subjunctive! A neighbor in our condominium put this sign up after leaving some old cabinetry in the corridor that really wasn’t much of a bother. <br /><br />I was stumped on the initial wording <i>Purtroppo riusciremo a portare via l’ingombrante sabato</i>, because you usually see <i>purtroppo</i> with the negative <i>non</i>. But if you translate <i>purtroppo</i> as “alas” it kind of works out, which loosely translates as “alas, we’ll be able to take away the clutter Saturday”. <br /><br />This is what I expected to see: <i>Purtroppo <b>non </b>riusciremo a portare via l’ingombrante <b>fino </b>sabato</i> - “unfortunately, we won’t be able to take away the clutter until Saturday”. <br /><br />Seriously, this is how I spend my time? </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5UnAJDBwOrQXQN-DjPaTglIyTofGqFXcJMU_nvS2s86rYaPi0tETPOXAIItThSx8NiT_SbupjxNbeCAesGDb-QXP4k5u9Ghb-Bk4q34xpxGuBK-kwVanozZ_NbUIZ025U0F-DJsmtRzMkkyAVZy5MbnaIXdciwCDLoRUk6nwlOUV5Mk8Yj1evw7LBhg/s4032/Shopper%20del%20Circolino%201.JPG"><img alt="Shopper del Circolino" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5UnAJDBwOrQXQN-DjPaTglIyTofGqFXcJMU_nvS2s86rYaPi0tETPOXAIItThSx8NiT_SbupjxNbeCAesGDb-QXP4k5u9Ghb-Bk4q34xpxGuBK-kwVanozZ_NbUIZ025U0F-DJsmtRzMkkyAVZy5MbnaIXdciwCDLoRUk6nwlOUV5Mk8Yj1evw7LBhg/w150-h200/Shopper%20del%20Circolino%201.JPG" title="Shopper del Circolino" width="150" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg5xYI_fdpHJFsFve55-NeEns1hHsnQzN_KYJBtu5SaWHhlvhQT1DEsdADVns0MefxBEeMH6A-q4vJB5N5i-9AsHoD5twfpTHIRGfX_2oeH3bbVcWl4OA2MStDda534OknpvJPqW1fBBoU0I2luuJyu05-g5kCGSENDujYGaA5r8WGvX1Ut3n4j9uU6g/s4032/Shopper%20del%20Circolino%202.JPG"><img alt="Shopper del Circolino" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg5xYI_fdpHJFsFve55-NeEns1hHsnQzN_KYJBtu5SaWHhlvhQT1DEsdADVns0MefxBEeMH6A-q4vJB5N5i-9AsHoD5twfpTHIRGfX_2oeH3bbVcWl4OA2MStDda534OknpvJPqW1fBBoU0I2luuJyu05-g5kCGSENDujYGaA5r8WGvX1Ut3n4j9uU6g/w150-h200/Shopper%20del%20Circolino%202.JPG" title="Shopper del Circolino" width="150" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5V9rf973i0ih6x0sE1Imgtr6r8UwW1keVoF9ZdDpws1GO8loEwfHrfj38njOA_ylc35tjMEZovEDBtPG6tOtf_PN5yElaONU5MyfE7ef1JZf45PKi3X67w_Xv32tj8RfGab4YQQYAPlgbDsa21227otvUn44udhrm6MZ8rgDCTDnPnjuunju0Pa6ESg/s4032/Shopper%20del%20Circolino%203.JPG"><img alt="Shopper del Circolino" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5V9rf973i0ih6x0sE1Imgtr6r8UwW1keVoF9ZdDpws1GO8loEwfHrfj38njOA_ylc35tjMEZovEDBtPG6tOtf_PN5yElaONU5MyfE7ef1JZf45PKi3X67w_Xv32tj8RfGab4YQQYAPlgbDsa21227otvUn44udhrm6MZ8rgDCTDnPnjuunju0Pa6ESg/w150-h200/Shopper%20del%20Circolino%203.JPG" title="Shopper del Circolino" width="150" /></a></div><br /><b>[7] <i>Shopper del Circolino</i></b><div>“Circolino shopping bag” <br /><br /><a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/shopper"><i>Shopper</i></a> is a shopping bag in Italian. Not the person. <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/shopper"><i>Lo shopper</i></a> is typically made of cloth or some other material. It’s not the plastic bags you get. Those instead are called <i><a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/sacchetto">sacchetto</a> or <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/borsa">borsa</a> di plastica</i>. <br /><br />You can <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/fare%20shopping"><i>fare shopping</i></a> – go shopping. But as a shopper in English, it’s <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/cliente"><i>cliente</i></a> or <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/acquirente"><i>aquirente</i></a> in Italian. <br /><br />Finally: it’s always fun to eat at Circolino in Città Alta, a must stop for visitors to Bergamo. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsXHRXMkPND-dH0fLXhSlewY14Ysl2w4R_JLDodNOJn7vwfbmY3YIjilFdK3JHhfyxq98uzc-RdMwi0BycJc_CirwbrdNfo2lQkTohrTcunF0UCy48v1ex2BJ5jSVXcmGHvhwVrhayo4Es0Dr4caAr3wLuzLoEHxQ6ByKEoa9cIX3M9o6pUu0xSBG6Zg/s4032/Si%20prega%20di%20non%20buttare%20carta%20o%20altro%20nel%20pisciatoio.JPG"><img alt="Si prega di non buttare carta o altro nel pisciatoio" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsXHRXMkPND-dH0fLXhSlewY14Ysl2w4R_JLDodNOJn7vwfbmY3YIjilFdK3JHhfyxq98uzc-RdMwi0BycJc_CirwbrdNfo2lQkTohrTcunF0UCy48v1ex2BJ5jSVXcmGHvhwVrhayo4Es0Dr4caAr3wLuzLoEHxQ6ByKEoa9cIX3M9o6pUu0xSBG6Zg/w150-h200/Si%20prega%20di%20non%20buttare%20carta%20o%20altro%20nel%20pisciatoio.JPG" title="Si prega di non buttare carta o altro nel pisciatoio" width="150" /></a></div><div><br /><b>[8] <i>Si prega di non buttare carta o altro nel pisciatoio </i></b><div>“Please do not throw paper or anything else in the urinal” <br /><br />(Sorry, gave up on showing all caps in signs....) We are back at Rifugio Malga Valbiolo (<a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/M47Gcp2BYR2Vzdv48">location</a>) above Passo del Tonale. We’ve written about a different sign above these urinals before in <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2023/03/street-sign-language-lesson-xl.html"><i>Street Sign Language Lesson XL</i></a>. This time, the sign caught our eye because of the translation of <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/pisciatoio"><i>pisciatoio</i></a> or “urinal”. The sign’s creator translated <i>pisciatoio</i> to “pissing trove”. Maybe they meant “trough”? Does “pissing trove” exist? I just had to check, in a private browser of course, and look at the images. No, it doesn’t exist. Next time we are there, I’ll remember to put a pen in my ski jacket and correct that spelling.<br /><br />We’ve been skiing at lot at Passo del Tonale and this is our favorite place to eat. Even if we are kilometers way on other slopes, we always say, now lets boogie over to Valbiolo. Great pork shank and nice people. Go early for lunch, around noon or after 2 pm to avoid the crowds. </div><br /><br /></div>TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com0Bergamo, Province of Bergamo, Italy45.6982642 9.677269817.388030363821152 -25.478980200000002 74.00849803617885 44.8335198tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-79003055186328158782024-01-19T15:42:00.003+01:002024-01-19T15:45:37.073+01:00Hellebore Hike – aka Maresana Hike Again! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSmu9sn-0PCoXOnrlGwx8So9vaFui_tx82_9ncAWck3JpfpXedtKzAnIt6AuRyi_MjXd14SK_NcBbXvJhp-5FP1v_jrfuro87VPSlUNn4LwoKI54nHRmb-xXH0nWJKmwqlmYgcXhIOZJjf4csBLSEpNXFPNjAMnMLzGhQErMAxZFYAXXfkdphY38mGoQ/s4032/%5BRanunculaceae%5D%20Helleborus%20niger%2001.jpg"><img alt="[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen in Bergamo, Italy" border="0" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSmu9sn-0PCoXOnrlGwx8So9vaFui_tx82_9ncAWck3JpfpXedtKzAnIt6AuRyi_MjXd14SK_NcBbXvJhp-5FP1v_jrfuro87VPSlUNn4LwoKI54nHRmb-xXH0nWJKmwqlmYgcXhIOZJjf4csBLSEpNXFPNjAMnMLzGhQErMAxZFYAXXfkdphY38mGoQ/w232-h174/%5BRanunculaceae%5D%20Helleborus%20niger%2001.jpg" title="[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen in Bergamo, Italy" width="232" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmocdNOIGm7vIe1jb2ff_OErOXrTBFd0JgDXEMqCYDs2p2BpCuBHlJ35aPb0sRUjI7JAIo7F6-0vMIRBcSp__3TgPUBi-5oPmag3bhRMVqj2Nw-b_IhO8xGXPDLXk4RXctlYhw-T3G2VxH6gwo6RvNB1lo4o8da4IQo3cNPNKeAXnG3HeWkhVF_ogIMw/s4032/%5BRanunculaceae%5D%20Helleborus%20niger%2004.jpg"><img alt="[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen in Bergamo, Italy" border="0" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmocdNOIGm7vIe1jb2ff_OErOXrTBFd0JgDXEMqCYDs2p2BpCuBHlJ35aPb0sRUjI7JAIo7F6-0vMIRBcSp__3TgPUBi-5oPmag3bhRMVqj2Nw-b_IhO8xGXPDLXk4RXctlYhw-T3G2VxH6gwo6RvNB1lo4o8da4IQo3cNPNKeAXnG3HeWkhVF_ogIMw/w131-h175/%5BRanunculaceae%5D%20Helleborus%20niger%2004.jpg" title="[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen in Bergamo, Italy" width="131" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXiuy4Eyxf-yMefLVM7aPyHYyoCoYDX7eykSO61_72q6ME-11b34WyEVj4c9E_G0Pyq83eF0XS38bcDJOMKHZ8zleguzt3332C5T2PuaKKa24ZsOJbmrznSTxFMeceZskcg9peFU9GHq_4nYVFYdRdogmUcssodOlXQrL8Fgji8JyEJaboq8pizIIvLg/s4032/%5BRanunculaceae%5D%20Helleborus%20niger%2005.jpg"><img alt="[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen in Bergamo, Italy" border="0" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXiuy4Eyxf-yMefLVM7aPyHYyoCoYDX7eykSO61_72q6ME-11b34WyEVj4c9E_G0Pyq83eF0XS38bcDJOMKHZ8zleguzt3332C5T2PuaKKa24ZsOJbmrznSTxFMeceZskcg9peFU9GHq_4nYVFYdRdogmUcssodOlXQrL8Fgji8JyEJaboq8pizIIvLg/w131-h174/%5BRanunculaceae%5D%20Helleborus%20niger%2005.jpg" title="[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen in Bergamo, Italy" width="131" /></a><div><span style="font-size: small;">[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen near Maresana Hill in Bergamo, Italy</span></div><br /> We had a guest visiting us and thought a hike to Maresana and betyond for lunch at Trattoria del Moro would be nice. (And it was.) <br /><br />On the way up on trail 553 (from Quintino Alto), we saw white flowers poking out in the brown leaf litter. Hellebores! We are always surprised to see the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helleborus_niger"><i>Helleborus niger</i></a> in bloom in the downtime of January. This plant is also called Christmas rose or black hellebore. It is an evergreen perennial flowering plant in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. <br /><br />In the wild, <i>H. niger</i> subsp. <i>niger</i> is generally found in mountainous areas in Switzerland, southern Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia and northern Italy. <i>Helleborus niger</i> subsp. <i>macranthus</i> is found only in northern Italy and possibly adjoining parts of Slovenia. Honestly, we don't know which subspecies we are seeing. It's likely <i>niger</i>. <br /><br />According to the <a href="https://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/index1.php?noind=1&scientific-name=helleborus+niger">Schede di botanica</a>, the plants pictured here are a little early in blooming. We should be seeing some snow in these hills and it's been unusually dry.<br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijtews5xGocO3KFnIe0PKglmbX76go1MVCklMpVfeSmdseArBbeHuo6AG7ERLH2i2UrvcrzpYiNmG0OLLiNV0cJfqDy2laD9_tzvbzqYE9KzV9FTlTxo4SlVA7iKfcL5rVVIBUMII7gkmvqDGZnme35DHo2y5blMsXth0Vnp5THAvvHAfcQskiIDJ-Kg/s4032/%5BRanunculaceae%5D%20Helleborus%20niger%2010.jpg"><img alt="[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen in Bergamo, Italy" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijtews5xGocO3KFnIe0PKglmbX76go1MVCklMpVfeSmdseArBbeHuo6AG7ERLH2i2UrvcrzpYiNmG0OLLiNV0cJfqDy2laD9_tzvbzqYE9KzV9FTlTxo4SlVA7iKfcL5rVVIBUMII7gkmvqDGZnme35DHo2y5blMsXth0Vnp5THAvvHAfcQskiIDJ-Kg/w200-h150/%5BRanunculaceae%5D%20Helleborus%20niger%2010.jpg" title="[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen in Bergamo, Italy" width="200" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZwPIViy4cGAFmR02EBlveofbMO5M9jiLTBpZG720U5NbjFmOCCJOYm11Am0BTyM_JOtKbxx8eQ0TV_nBgUo2nTwTz9YpzOayK0GcYoskbmJJAYJoHO_X3AqadnLFITD5ijd74w_wVtUGN1GdFBfmWtR8hbkuUrtBQJ83J3-oW3Gz1jhKr3Y-RpMZ3KA/s4032/%5BRanunculaceae%5D%20Helleborus%20niger%2002.jpg"><img alt="[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen in Bergamo, Italy" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZwPIViy4cGAFmR02EBlveofbMO5M9jiLTBpZG720U5NbjFmOCCJOYm11Am0BTyM_JOtKbxx8eQ0TV_nBgUo2nTwTz9YpzOayK0GcYoskbmJJAYJoHO_X3AqadnLFITD5ijd74w_wVtUGN1GdFBfmWtR8hbkuUrtBQJ83J3-oW3Gz1jhKr3Y-RpMZ3KA/w112-h150/%5BRanunculaceae%5D%20Helleborus%20niger%2002.jpg" title="[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen in Bergamo, Italy" width="112" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh18dylvzD3JcepKb1-GFJQBWf8mYBpmBNYzcy0GrQpdPArCz-WjCjV6QP7E5ld3SE4TQPfx_IpzvEc94EM26VGyvYIr0cJQaLn7HZDbcfvbUBgtVA4PlUkV0WlCFszr_8-ZYTfaRw4zQnMWmkzrMQP-_PrxeCaVHzV0oKcaIkrXoS7PF42sezF9h4pZw/s4032/%5BRanunculaceae%5D%20Helleborus%20niger%2003.jpg"><img alt="[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen in Bergamo, Italy" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh18dylvzD3JcepKb1-GFJQBWf8mYBpmBNYzcy0GrQpdPArCz-WjCjV6QP7E5ld3SE4TQPfx_IpzvEc94EM26VGyvYIr0cJQaLn7HZDbcfvbUBgtVA4PlUkV0WlCFszr_8-ZYTfaRw4zQnMWmkzrMQP-_PrxeCaVHzV0oKcaIkrXoS7PF42sezF9h4pZw/w113-h150/%5BRanunculaceae%5D%20Helleborus%20niger%2003.jpg" title="[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen in Bergamo, Italy" width="113" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL9wKkJGG0SxYnUxFZOTNnUCV2PXDsjHQMJy590MqghS9F8oXrsib7FKcNy1fYwUhs21_IBZ-AqpfqX9hgO80ZL8kr6sINiv8oMuOduqaLIDii-rLZjXmXp3BqlkgZsw0Mfa72EHF6Ll6cCamOR1h1nE_8vNNLnAOmM2I-kyr3zcxC1uQIbKMK8H91tQ/s4032/%5BRanunculaceae%5D%20Helleborus%20niger%2007.jpg"><img alt="[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen in Bergamo, Italy" border="0" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL9wKkJGG0SxYnUxFZOTNnUCV2PXDsjHQMJy590MqghS9F8oXrsib7FKcNy1fYwUhs21_IBZ-AqpfqX9hgO80ZL8kr6sINiv8oMuOduqaLIDii-rLZjXmXp3BqlkgZsw0Mfa72EHF6Ll6cCamOR1h1nE_8vNNLnAOmM2I-kyr3zcxC1uQIbKMK8H91tQ/w113-h151/%5BRanunculaceae%5D%20Helleborus%20niger%2007.jpg" title="[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen in Bergamo, Italy" width="113" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen near Maresana Hill in Bergamo, Italy<br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLu9UG5qRCnhFqC832IQVTFDaurZXJ5OJ886rGxJswHiYE4NCkQKVlMHIammVQuR2RIt6UEQA3iJ7nIC4ibVeaChWp-6VNLxaiQfWyXDKQHF3Wk03Lr00zmC_6u8GcC8UadLmzw_VabNPuFJ2NV6HuUY-4RyFz5604tpTO_cD7VTFpdtocb67LZQQJ5A/s4032/%5BRanunculaceae%5D%20Helleborus%20niger%2006.jpg"><img alt="[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen in Bergamo, Italy" border="0" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLu9UG5qRCnhFqC832IQVTFDaurZXJ5OJ886rGxJswHiYE4NCkQKVlMHIammVQuR2RIt6UEQA3iJ7nIC4ibVeaChWp-6VNLxaiQfWyXDKQHF3Wk03Lr00zmC_6u8GcC8UadLmzw_VabNPuFJ2NV6HuUY-4RyFz5604tpTO_cD7VTFpdtocb67LZQQJ5A/w183-h138/%5BRanunculaceae%5D%20Helleborus%20niger%2006.jpg" title="[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen in Bergamo, Italy" width="183" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFbICCKELazkoMwnUvCaEKRvLgRbpEFkfMrCR9Ehi_V49cXXUlxIBTM0rUqj-98g_gtxcDFwesimf6QULICXQWDUDkfapiRXFxkneMA8NVptEebTGxVRH7cEPQLxBdH32wqiBP84GKrwq_A0QUzLhlbFn3OX1WTTKq09te9A5DJLjcRjPQhwcRXpj9UQ/s4080/%5BRanunculaceae%5D%20Helleborus%20niger%2008.JPG"><img alt="[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen in Bergamo, Italy" border="0" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFbICCKELazkoMwnUvCaEKRvLgRbpEFkfMrCR9Ehi_V49cXXUlxIBTM0rUqj-98g_gtxcDFwesimf6QULICXQWDUDkfapiRXFxkneMA8NVptEebTGxVRH7cEPQLxBdH32wqiBP84GKrwq_A0QUzLhlbFn3OX1WTTKq09te9A5DJLjcRjPQhwcRXpj9UQ/w182-h138/%5BRanunculaceae%5D%20Helleborus%20niger%2008.JPG" title="[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen in Bergamo, Italy" width="182" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7sLKToWa9HO8sctcztNW65yZX4TcaS0T_QMKViHClNmzGDppB1_HaBaWclE-C4TM2eKLVrl4LlaP7rXWqCSRCW4baPHXgzoN4bz1WPf9zjKjqK_evgi2hUh-d9yw9rIPsNnicKREbQ8lCo2pwDb8kGGk_boRTumhMHE3FEAiXhCi_EBAwhgz_dTwU1g/s4080/%5BRanunculaceae%5D%20Helleborus%20niger%2009.JPG"><img alt="[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen in Bergamo, Italy" border="0" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7sLKToWa9HO8sctcztNW65yZX4TcaS0T_QMKViHClNmzGDppB1_HaBaWclE-C4TM2eKLVrl4LlaP7rXWqCSRCW4baPHXgzoN4bz1WPf9zjKjqK_evgi2hUh-d9yw9rIPsNnicKREbQ8lCo2pwDb8kGGk_boRTumhMHE3FEAiXhCi_EBAwhgz_dTwU1g/w184-h138/%5BRanunculaceae%5D%20Helleborus%20niger%2009.JPG" title="[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen in Bergamo, Italy" width="184" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">[Ranunculaceae] Helleborus niger - seen near Maresana Hill in Bergamo, Italy</span><br style="font-size: small;" /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8no6Fj4HC3x4JkUzBvsG_CvlhBgbIjaf4RKRXcqA77fpS1jVKJy1uLe_8TLLPw-qy_c0mn9LYG2MHD-7AsGpm754Uz-SPYdADqwON3SuwrW5j9WOb2s66VxoLQe_8QHY_7SGPTC4Lb6r-1EyLia7TthXwCxhPzcfL0MdOnNzDGMN43LFCtBt8MMiCCA/s4032/In%20the%20woods%20above%20Monterosso%20-%20Bergamo.jpg"><img alt="In the woods above Monterosso - Bergamo" border="0" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8no6Fj4HC3x4JkUzBvsG_CvlhBgbIjaf4RKRXcqA77fpS1jVKJy1uLe_8TLLPw-qy_c0mn9LYG2MHD-7AsGpm754Uz-SPYdADqwON3SuwrW5j9WOb2s66VxoLQe_8QHY_7SGPTC4Lb6r-1EyLia7TthXwCxhPzcfL0MdOnNzDGMN43LFCtBt8MMiCCA/w99-h131/In%20the%20woods%20above%20Monterosso%20-%20Bergamo.jpg" title="In the woods above Monterosso - Bergamo" width="99" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhobVd8L8hxNMVixCc5p74YaDk4JMdc7IFEIuWDmpfjhxWYZoIbdYqY06KsH7jIpV0WrsLo0Vs8461hKOvNiZ7Ii4ZHW_ugLYLC3CGXS24_XDHibX3oD6YgtMxmeO6Jnnv5-KuW2ITmgj8HSFS9IGxrReXcNq9EhyMt9v8sG-WrMkR9Fsx8sa3BkIq9vA/s4032/Starting%20up%20trail%20533%20in%20Bergamo.jpg"><img alt="Starting up trail 533 in Bergamo" border="0" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhobVd8L8hxNMVixCc5p74YaDk4JMdc7IFEIuWDmpfjhxWYZoIbdYqY06KsH7jIpV0WrsLo0Vs8461hKOvNiZ7Ii4ZHW_ugLYLC3CGXS24_XDHibX3oD6YgtMxmeO6Jnnv5-KuW2ITmgj8HSFS9IGxrReXcNq9EhyMt9v8sG-WrMkR9Fsx8sa3BkIq9vA/w98-h131/Starting%20up%20trail%20533%20in%20Bergamo.jpg" title="Starting up trail 533 in Bergamo" width="98" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihinMGjC7NMC4poMPhzQFY4jjVT-Vgsiva26X4NrFWK0sXwCUEHifJmnkKmBqEqHq_sMwCHbAE0Ms5yJ5Ob7rOi5LN52HcRDL5lN0FLd8MOUrVL9cyc5XMvjqGOijM_-cD63LjWQTaxEhowbfNxeP2Css2QtO82kkujG6Wds71PwwR5l_sLby_qb2N4Q/s4032/Trattoria%20del%20Moro%20-%20antipasti.jpg"><img alt="Trattoria del Moro - Ponteranica, Bergamo - antipasti" border="0" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihinMGjC7NMC4poMPhzQFY4jjVT-Vgsiva26X4NrFWK0sXwCUEHifJmnkKmBqEqHq_sMwCHbAE0Ms5yJ5Ob7rOi5LN52HcRDL5lN0FLd8MOUrVL9cyc5XMvjqGOijM_-cD63LjWQTaxEhowbfNxeP2Css2QtO82kkujG6Wds71PwwR5l_sLby_qb2N4Q/w174-h130/Trattoria%20del%20Moro%20-%20antipasti.jpg" title="Trattoria del Moro - Ponteranica, Bergamo - antipasti" width="174" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbHiOIzV0EJ8oXjaXiBv__HOut6RZ0HIlgLTYYNmS4yqfRF3sbBTfS7FxdZ6EWTQ6dsyARSjeng8lIuo4GPWJ5r9LkdODxcghQALB3YMQwf4JQr87CXSQ3bHEfOAdXvOQGnoTJbWYbI55Ab37hMgN3y_62aRjvXSmyxXxGHbD08ihQZcFxkXxsgWTC7w/s4032/Trattoria%20del%20Moro%20-%20Foiade%20with%20sugo%20di%20lepre.jpg"><img alt="Trattoria del Moro - Ponteranica, Bergamo - foiade al ragu di lepre" border="0" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbHiOIzV0EJ8oXjaXiBv__HOut6RZ0HIlgLTYYNmS4yqfRF3sbBTfS7FxdZ6EWTQ6dsyARSjeng8lIuo4GPWJ5r9LkdODxcghQALB3YMQwf4JQr87CXSQ3bHEfOAdXvOQGnoTJbWYbI55Ab37hMgN3y_62aRjvXSmyxXxGHbD08ihQZcFxkXxsgWTC7w/w174-h130/Trattoria%20del%20Moro%20-%20Foiade%20with%20sugo%20di%20lepre.jpg" title="Trattoria del Moro - Ponteranica, Bergamo - foiade al ragu di lepre" width="174" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hiking on Maresana Hill in Bergamo, Italy followed by lunch dishes Trattoria del Moro (Ponteranica).</span><br style="font-size: small;" /><br /></div>TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com0Via Croce Dei Morti, 4, 24010 Ponteranica BG, Italy45.73155 9.6777345.725558525875833 9.6691469311523441 45.737541474124164 9.6863130688476566tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-44600816061274436162024-01-18T11:02:00.006+01:002024-01-18T11:04:24.736+01:00Donne della Costituente – The Woman of the Constituent or Constitutional Assembly<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq8aLt-45OXoZ3lHqSYk85jz3Ye5D9l5l-ezx50p-PL2JlQfItK1d-klqd3HwYYfRtY28peJ4P4PnzAq_mXX7sx2ewO4VeUmyOyCvU5V1DLPY9pQuFx3AN58k_SlKQhj25OkCs5HH5J_B6nmNH6jRV1pbeTZ19fqMJjnEgwmNFuLccLqQs6XPcB8BsCg/s4032/Le%20Donne%20della%20Costituente.jpg"><img alt="Le Donne delle Costituente in Parco Sant' Agostino (Bergamo)" border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq8aLt-45OXoZ3lHqSYk85jz3Ye5D9l5l-ezx50p-PL2JlQfItK1d-klqd3HwYYfRtY28peJ4P4PnzAq_mXX7sx2ewO4VeUmyOyCvU5V1DLPY9pQuFx3AN58k_SlKQhj25OkCs5HH5J_B6nmNH6jRV1pbeTZ19fqMJjnEgwmNFuLccLqQs6XPcB8BsCg/w261-h196/Le%20Donne%20della%20Costituente.jpg" title="Le Donne delle Costituente in Parco Sant' Agostino (Bergamo)" width="261" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaaNGyRzpmlgVsauRPzBZoPjB4yPqfNTo1ECiOEw4ifio-0FkXHUyi81lSlfTaMMjM5fKSxNODHVhWFXISCkCwCStZ-iGiBp89JhvnlUYHnZvlycR_5bUDwLCg2omkmxABOr050-bozMbHrvGHxwv1Uu2EK6IIPPCN-WjWaKp-HyqDY3K2d4E_2yrB9w/s4032/Le%20Donne%20della%20Costituente%20plaque.jpg"><img alt="Le Donne delle Costituente in Parco Sant' Agostino (Bergamo)" border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaaNGyRzpmlgVsauRPzBZoPjB4yPqfNTo1ECiOEw4ifio-0FkXHUyi81lSlfTaMMjM5fKSxNODHVhWFXISCkCwCStZ-iGiBp89JhvnlUYHnZvlycR_5bUDwLCg2omkmxABOr050-bozMbHrvGHxwv1Uu2EK6IIPPCN-WjWaKp-HyqDY3K2d4E_2yrB9w/w147-h196/Le%20Donne%20della%20Costituente%20plaque.jpg" title="Le Donne delle Costituente in Parco Sant' Agostino (Bergamo)" width="147" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1_86mM_lGVi0F7Yn9ta0TmFHGEwdtyVc1jQF3WGHjKMMxz1A7PszhTAHNzViL9RitAteDTIKQWLGbDkLcJ8JV-9GYXUKpo3D7KsM6vQZrdho6HF5YTwnHXQ7Hi-iAtU7kqrqp7fMvnNFliOeyhIvLqfSlrst412yn-X9cfVQ1QzyXl5rRsC_oCSaMPQ/s4032/Le%20donne%20delle%20Costituente%20-%20Adele%20Bei%20-%20a%20tree%20named%20in%20her%20honor.jpg"><img alt="Le donne delle Costituente - Adele Bei - a tree named in her honor" border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1_86mM_lGVi0F7Yn9ta0TmFHGEwdtyVc1jQF3WGHjKMMxz1A7PszhTAHNzViL9RitAteDTIKQWLGbDkLcJ8JV-9GYXUKpo3D7KsM6vQZrdho6HF5YTwnHXQ7Hi-iAtU7kqrqp7fMvnNFliOeyhIvLqfSlrst412yn-X9cfVQ1QzyXl5rRsC_oCSaMPQ/w147-h196/Le%20donne%20delle%20Costituente%20-%20Adele%20Bei%20-%20a%20tree%20named%20in%20her%20honor.jpg" title="Le donne delle Costituente - Adele Bei - a tree named in her honor" width="147" /></a><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">A memorial plaque in Parco Sant'Agostino Bergamo commemorating the women of the Constitutional Assembly. And, a tree dedicated to Adele Bei, one of the members.</span></b><div><br /><br /> On June 2, 1946, Italians were called upon to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946_Italian_institutional_referendum">choose</a> between the Monarchy and the Republic and to elect their representatives to the Constituent Assembly. There were 21 women elected, out of a total of 556 deputies. None were from Bergamo. <br /><br />To remember this event, 21 trees in Parco Sant’Agostino in Bergamo were named after the 21 women elected to the Constituent Assembly on 2 June 1946. Also, an informational plaque was placed at the entrances to the park. The recognition and gesture requested by the Women's Council on the 75th anniversary of the Constitution of the Italian Republic. <br /><br />A word about the phrase <i>donne costituente</i> is read as “woman of the constituent assembly”. Some terminology:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/costituente"><i>costituente</i></a> – founding, constituent (adj); member (nm). Usually used to refer to those who worked on creating the constitution, as in the <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assemblea_costituente"><i>assemblea costituente</i></a> (or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constituent_assembly">constituent assembly</a> in English).</li><li><a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/costituire"><i>costituire</i></a> – to establish or found; to constitute. Note this is not <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/costruire">costruire</a> – to build.</li><li><a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/costituzione"><i>costituzione</i></a> – constitution, among other meanings. </li></ul><div><br /></div>A note about the design. There are two colored ribbons weaving through the images, red and green. The ribbons seem to connect some of the women but not all. As far as we can tell, the red ribbon represents ‘approximately’ the Italian Communist Party and the green ribbon the Christian Democracy Party. Both parties no longer exist but were powerful forces at the time of the referendum on the monarchy. Perhaps a better way to think about it is that more than associating people, the ribbons are meant to call out (and was pointed out in the city hall <a href="https://www.comune.bergamo.it/node/733589">web site</a>): that they all were opposed to fascism.<br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Italian: “Molto diverse tra loro per età, cultura, professione, provengono tutte da precedenti esperienze di impegno sociale e politico, caratterizzato dall'opposizione al fascismo; in molti casi sono state attive nella Resistenza.”</li><li>English: Very different from each other in age, culture, profession, they all come from previous experiences of social and political commitment, characterized by opposition to fascism; in many cases they were active in the Resistance.</li></ul><br />The 21 women are:<br /><br />Adele Bei (Cantiano, 4 maggio 1904 - Roma, 15 ottobre 1976) <br />Bianca Bianchi (Vicchio di Mugello, 31 luglio 1914 - 9 luglio 2000) <br />Laura Bianchini (Castenedolo, 23 agosto 1903- Roma il 27 settembre 1983) <br />Elisabetta Conci (Trento, 23 marzo 1895 - Mollaro in Valle di Non, 1 novembre 1965) <br />Filomena Delli Castelli (Cittä Sant'Angelo, 28 settembre 1916 - 22 dicembre 2010) <br />Maria De Unterrichter (Ossana (Tn), 20 agosto 1902 - 27 dicembre 1975) <br />Maria Federici nata Anna Maria Agamben (Aquila, 19 settembre 1899 - 28 luglio 1984) <br /><br />Nadia Gallico Spano (Tunisi, 2 giugno 1916 - Roma, 19 gennaio 2006) <br />Angela Gotelli (Albareto, 28 febbraio 1905 - 21 novembre 1996) <br />Angela Guidi (Roma 31 Ottobre 1896 - 11 lugiio 1991) <br />Nilde lotti (Reggio Emilia, 10 Aprile 1920 - Roma, 4 Dicembre 1999) <br />Teresa Mattei (Genova, 1 Febbraio 1921 - Usigliano, 12 Marzo 2013) <br />Lina Merlin (Pozzonovo, 15 Ottobre 1887 - Padova, 16 Agosto 1979) <br />Angiola Minella (Torino, 3 Febbraio 1920 - Genova, 12 Marzo 1988) <br /><br />Rita Montagnana (Torino, 6 gennaio 1895 — Roma, 18 luglio 1979) <br />Maria Nicotra (Catania, 6 luglio 1913 — Padova, 14 luglio 2007) <br />Teresa Noce (Torino, 29 luglio 1900 — Bologna, 22 gennaio 1980) <br />Ottavia Penna (Caltagirone, 12 aprile 1907 — Caltagirone, 2 dicembre 1986) <br />Elettra Pollastrini (Rieti, 15 luglio 1908 - Rieti, 2 febbraio 1990) <br />Maria Maddalena Rossi (Codevilla, 29 settembre 1906 — Milano, 19 settembre 1995) <br />Vittoria Titomanlio (Barletta, 22 aprile 1899 — Napoli, 28 dicembre 1988) <br /><br /><br /> <a agostino.jpg="" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4pkQKzm3VkRlrgFG11BSLSfFg-V0TJ5C_pICUetuvsxr9FRZm2CrqEQCgdZDDAWYGvUsC_fpiAovUq4VFdTdqsBc0hHSMtqVsvVD7ClYeQt35LUR47K691bmnc40j-aDHFluxJZc0JFuVmb4Aq2TQXv9G_i9z6mJPdK6uQb_5KAUE3yusRYv1lEf9BQ/s4032/Le%20Donne%20delle%20Costituente%20in%20Parco%20Sant"><img agostino.jpg="" alt="Le Donne delle Costituente in Parco Sant' Agostino (Bergamo)" border="0" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4pkQKzm3VkRlrgFG11BSLSfFg-V0TJ5C_pICUetuvsxr9FRZm2CrqEQCgdZDDAWYGvUsC_fpiAovUq4VFdTdqsBc0hHSMtqVsvVD7ClYeQt35LUR47K691bmnc40j-aDHFluxJZc0JFuVmb4Aq2TQXv9G_i9z6mJPdK6uQb_5KAUE3yusRYv1lEf9BQ/w268-h201/Le%20Donne%20delle%20Costituente%20in%20Parco%20Sant" title="Le Donne delle Costituente in Parco Sant' Agostino (Bergamo)" width="268" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoeEJZFcI30RB18TE82SiW-3Imfloo4h5jGImXnf1XgsRqx0gUttHPLcyEPkMfUu03KKsHtoDpmDsHT5mcG-_ZURQVoOx6aV8sTxgusNkHk18U4RKQfgBCH7Dk2UsGDRNZ3fGwekhlNEDJuJiQEsm9FQu7VnamKIAGIy9-X4Ojy8I5CcHFxi4rJkAecQ/s4080/Le%20donne%20delle%20Costituente%20-%20Teresa%20Mattei%20-%20a%20tree%20named%20in%20her%20honor.jpg"><img alt="Le donne delle Costituente - Teresa Mattei - a tree named in her honor" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoeEJZFcI30RB18TE82SiW-3Imfloo4h5jGImXnf1XgsRqx0gUttHPLcyEPkMfUu03KKsHtoDpmDsHT5mcG-_ZURQVoOx6aV8sTxgusNkHk18U4RKQfgBCH7Dk2UsGDRNZ3fGwekhlNEDJuJiQEsm9FQu7VnamKIAGIy9-X4Ojy8I5CcHFxi4rJkAecQ/w151-h200/Le%20donne%20delle%20Costituente%20-%20Teresa%20Mattei%20-%20a%20tree%20named%20in%20her%20honor.jpg" title="Le donne delle Costituente - Teresa Mattei - a tree named in her honor" width="151" /></a> </div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">A memorial plaque in Parco Sant'Agostino Bergamo </span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">commemorating </span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">the women of the Constitutional Assembly. And, a tree dedicated to Teresa Mattei, one of the members.</span></b></div>TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com0Viale delle Mura, 4, 24129 Bergamo BG, Italy45.7049227 9.672881645.704173443718886 9.6718087163940432 45.705671956281108 9.6739544836059572tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-65740274273495705012024-01-12T09:01:00.008+01:002024-01-12T09:01:42.509+01:00Tree and Fruit Names in Italian – Which Gender?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW7xaP7YWEGHv_d9r8gy9w25CGqSn6xYxN-VCVqv5w89ImFTKCt9zpD0chXD065jFbwEg0U9XBuiA8f4jubhYu2GgcRuBNs3vwlt1rILeszEn-mH8HkbjMkY5DGeenu0gtFL8L0JKRWpfBVg9e3zeoAshTbnFNt8adYRVtkxqNl4jHzv-Fb72TulEg2Q/s1024/Microsoft%20Designer%20-%20A%20fruit%20tree%20with%20a%20face%20in%20it%20in%20the%20style%20of%20Giuseppe%20Arcimboldo.jpeg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW7xaP7YWEGHv_d9r8gy9w25CGqSn6xYxN-VCVqv5w89ImFTKCt9zpD0chXD065jFbwEg0U9XBuiA8f4jubhYu2GgcRuBNs3vwlt1rILeszEn-mH8HkbjMkY5DGeenu0gtFL8L0JKRWpfBVg9e3zeoAshTbnFNt8adYRVtkxqNl4jHzv-Fb72TulEg2Q/s320/Microsoft%20Designer%20-%20A%20fruit%20tree%20with%20a%20face%20in%20it%20in%20the%20style%20of%20Giuseppe%20Arcimboldo.jpeg" /></a><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dealing with the gender of fruit trees and fruits in Italian.<br /></span></b><br /><div><br /></div>In Italian, every noun has a gender, either masculine or feminine. This gender is essential for agreement with other parts of the sentence, such as articles, adjectives, and pronouns. <div><br /></div><div>When it comes to fruit trees and the fruits they produce, there’s a twist in Italian. While in English, you make the name of a fruit tree by adding “tree” after the fruit name, in Italian you use the same word for fruit but switch the gender of the fruit from feminine to masculine. For example, “apple” in Italian is “<i>mela</i>” (feminine), and “apple tree” is “<i>melo</i>” (masculine) as in “<i>La storia di George Washington che abbatte un <b>melo </b>è una leggenda. Poi ha mangiato una <b>mela</b></i>?” </div><div><br /></div><div>Many fruit trees and their fruit follow this pattern, but not all! What did you expect? </div><div><br /></div><div>Here are the ones following the pattern. </div><div><br /></div><b>masculine albero or “tree” / feminine frutta or “fruit” / English</b><div><b><br /></b><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i>l’albicocco</i> / <i>l’<a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/albicocca">albicocca</a></i> / “apricot” </li><li><i>l’arancio</i> / <i>l’<a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/arancia">arancia</a></i> / “orange” </li><li><i>il banano</i> / <i>la banana</i> / “banana” </li><li><i>il castagno</i> / <i>la <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/castagna">castagna</a></i> / “chestnut” </li><li><i>il ciliegio</i> / <i>la <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/ciliegia">ciliegia</a></i> / “cherry” </li><li><i>il mandorlo</i> / <i>la <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/mandorla">mandorla</a></i> / “almond” </li><li><i>il melo</i> / <i>la mela</i> / “apple” </li><li><i>il melo cotogno</i> / <i>la <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/mela%20cotogna">mela cotogna</a></i> / “quince” </li><li><i>il melograno</i> / <i>la <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/melagrana">melagrana</a></i> / “pomegranate” </li><li><i>il moro</i> / <i>la <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/mora">mora</a></i> / “blackberry” </li><li><i>il nespolo</i> / <i>la nespola</i> / “medlar” </li><li><i>il nespolo del Giappone</i> / <i>la nespola del Giappone</i> / “loquat” </li><li><i>il nocciolo</i> / <i>la <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/nocciola">nocciola</a></i> / “hazelnut” </li><li><i>il pero</i> / <i>la <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/pera">pera</a></i> / “pear” </li><li><i>il pesco</i> / <i>la <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/pesca">pesca</a></i> / “peach” </li><li><i>il prugno</i> / <i>la <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/prugna">prugna</a></i> / “prune” </li><li><i>il sorbo</i> / <i>la <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/sorba">sorba</a></i> / “sorb” </li><li><i>il susino</i> / <i>la <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/susina">susina</a></i> / “plum” </li></ul><br />Now the exceptions. <br /><br /><b>Invariant spelling but gender article changes:</b><div><b><br /></b><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i>il noce</i> / <i>la <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/noce">noce</a></i> / “walnut”</li></ul><br /><b>Masculine fruits/nut instead of feminine:</b><div><b><br /></b><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i>l’avocado</i> / <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/avocado"><i>l’avocado</i></a> / “avocado”</li><li><i>il limone</i>/ <i>il <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/limone">limone</a></i> / “lemon”</li><li><i>il dattero</i> / <i>il <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/dattero">dattero</a></i> / “date”</li><li><i>il fico</i> / <i>il <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/fico">fico</a></i> / “fig” </li><li><i>il kiwi</i> / <i>il kiwi</i> / “kiwi” </li><li><i>il pistacchio</i> / <i>il <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/pistacchio">pistacchio</a></i>, / “pistachio” </li><li><i>il pompelmo</i> / <i>il pompelmo</i> / “grapefruit” </li><li><i>il lampone</i> / <i>il <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/lampone">lampone</a></i> / “raspberry” </li><li><i>il mandarino</i> / <i>il <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/mandarino">mandarino</a></i> / “mandarin” </li><li><i>il cachi</i> / <i>il cachi</i> / “persimmon” </li><li><i>il mango</i> / <i>il <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/mango">mango</a></i> / “mango” </li><li><i>il rampicante? della passione</i> / <i>il frutto della passione</i> / “passion fruit” </li><li><i>il mirtillo</i> / <i>il mirtillo</i> / “blueberry” </li></ul><br /><b>Feminine trees/bush instead of masculine: <br /></b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i>la <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/palma">palma</a></i> / {fruit depends} / “palm”</li><li><i>la <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/quercia">quercia</a></i> / <i>la ghianda? </i>"acorn” / “oak”</li><li><i>la <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/vite">vite</a></i> / <i>l’uva</i> “grape” / “grapevine”</li><li><i>la <a href="https://www.wordreference.com/iten/papaia">papaia</a></i> / <i>la papaia</i> / “papaya” </li></ul><br /><br /> </div></div></div>TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com0Bergamo, Province of Bergamo, Italy45.6982642 9.677269817.388030363821152 -25.478980200000002 74.00849803617885 44.8335198tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-12479941087073156072024-01-11T17:20:00.003+01:002024-01-11T17:20:27.791+01:00Two Short Winter Hikes in Passo del Tonale, Italy <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/01/two-short-winter-hikes-in-passo-del-tonale-italy.html#overview">Overview</a> ~ <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/01/two-short-winter-hikes-in-passo-del-tonale-italy.html#hike1">Hike 1</a> ~ <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/01/two-short-winter-hikes-in-passo-del-tonale-italy.html#hike2">Hike 2</a> ~ <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/01/two-short-winter-hikes-in-passo-del-tonale-italy.html#area">The Area</a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtTt90nWBPQIKLhQX-NwsTbcdIPrWCzeXxAZOutBuBuvXWo-tSnSV4EAxKv64R5mVoB2AiBJWr9Xl2SNjcEuRygMNohycO78Z6UEebPkVNNYExpCFVk-S83XqwjXRlKBpbXZe6zTlxv1i1R3wZS9_we9GBmXQ0PEV7kmNwK130OSgzvGYEGIy5RIjZhA/s4032/Walking%20down%20the%20Valbiolo%20ski%20run%20after%20house%20approaching%20Passo%20del%20Tonale.JPG"><img alt="Walking down the Valbiolo ski run after house approaching Passo del Tonale" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtTt90nWBPQIKLhQX-NwsTbcdIPrWCzeXxAZOutBuBuvXWo-tSnSV4EAxKv64R5mVoB2AiBJWr9Xl2SNjcEuRygMNohycO78Z6UEebPkVNNYExpCFVk-S83XqwjXRlKBpbXZe6zTlxv1i1R3wZS9_we9GBmXQ0PEV7kmNwK130OSgzvGYEGIy5RIjZhA/w200-h150/Walking%20down%20the%20Valbiolo%20ski%20run%20after%20house%20approaching%20Passo%20del%20Tonale.JPG" title="Walking down the Valbiolo ski run after house approaching Passo del Tonale" width="200" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_CWa2M8LYyLEETRqNOpkj7ogOLT-zUSFdSSEFOivprsDlofo-ri5FSwPh7EqvOHi9ohZ22qLEeeuBgsD8gv3SuRJijJR7-MQfr-Jo9axrCYdYHW__RAaFUVTx3T72KqP8iNlu0ChGweJcIyX57sjRqsx3lvjnhonn0SKO3NnXAl16zQ7XMEt4CSBQHQ/s1600/Tracks%20for%20Hike%20on%20Tour%20delle%20Marmotte.jpg"><img alt="Tracks for Hike on Tour delle Marmotte" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_CWa2M8LYyLEETRqNOpkj7ogOLT-zUSFdSSEFOivprsDlofo-ri5FSwPh7EqvOHi9ohZ22qLEeeuBgsD8gv3SuRJijJR7-MQfr-Jo9axrCYdYHW__RAaFUVTx3T72KqP8iNlu0ChGweJcIyX57sjRqsx3lvjnhonn0SKO3NnXAl16zQ7XMEt4CSBQHQ/w70-h150/Tracks%20for%20Hike%20on%20Tour%20delle%20Marmotte.jpg" title="Tracks for Hike on Tour delle Marmotte" width="70" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-5hvWoD_CeDobSaAXoeFI_5-a3AYIvhA3qUEgkqFOOYgX9R5fXcRsocDArpXa-OHSLFRDLHYgoOiFSlYywqMVOcmqCkvbPgx9dpe_sYPr3NtVvXoIsbx03jPh1aAGxeXxWM9A8DVeqvtfSP3yA3RTx9czBgOkVcoxaYJAVSRRcuvNevGp6ewV1ZWALA/s4032/Walking%20into%20the%20sunset%20at%20Passo%20del%20Tonale.jpg"><img alt="Walking into the sunset at Passo del Tonale" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-5hvWoD_CeDobSaAXoeFI_5-a3AYIvhA3qUEgkqFOOYgX9R5fXcRsocDArpXa-OHSLFRDLHYgoOiFSlYywqMVOcmqCkvbPgx9dpe_sYPr3NtVvXoIsbx03jPh1aAGxeXxWM9A8DVeqvtfSP3yA3RTx9czBgOkVcoxaYJAVSRRcuvNevGp6ewV1ZWALA/w200-h150/Walking%20into%20the%20sunset%20at%20Passo%20del%20Tonale.jpg" title="Walking into the sunset at Passo del Tonale" width="200" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt2_wXsO8lQLvXlvIGojSnCD5RbFkBN_MCXpQN7TRReNs03c9jr_Ni_TgxMyQazXlQUSavRnM8JQo1GKib836voTYrV7GJmy4fPmOG4O_STc3OQnFa_S6NzkeRkiVv9hBeE3i4JBJL3SjI_YIETNoPzwouywPT-N7mIgn87mGnIbYJUz2Q16NAY9ZG0A/s2048/Tracks%20for%20hike%20to%20Galleria%20Alveo.jpg"><img alt="Tracks for hike to Galleria Alveo" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt2_wXsO8lQLvXlvIGojSnCD5RbFkBN_MCXpQN7TRReNs03c9jr_Ni_TgxMyQazXlQUSavRnM8JQo1GKib836voTYrV7GJmy4fPmOG4O_STc3OQnFa_S6NzkeRkiVv9hBeE3i4JBJL3SjI_YIETNoPzwouywPT-N7mIgn87mGnIbYJUz2Q16NAY9ZG0A/w70-h150/Tracks%20for%20hike%20to%20Galleria%20Alveo.jpg" title="Tracks for hike to Galleria Alveo" width="70" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Left: </b></span><b style="font-size: small;">Walking down the Valbiolo ski run in twilight approaching Passo del Tonale.</b><b style="font-size: small;"> <br /></b><b style="font-size: small;">Center left: </b><b style="font-size: small;">Tracks for hike 1.<br /></b><b style="font-size: small;">Center right: </b><b style="font-size: small;">Walking into the sunset at Passo del Tonale.<br /></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Right: </b></span><b style="font-size: small;">Tracks for hike 2.</b></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><h3 id="overview" style="text-align: left;">Overview</h3><p><br /></p><p>Last year, we did two late winter hikes, one west of Ponte di Legno and one east at Passo del Tonale: <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2023/03/two-late-winter-hikes-near-ponte-di-legno-malga-valbiolo-val-cane.html">Two Late Winter Hikes Near Ponte di Legno, Italy.</a> This year, we stayed at a rented house in Passo del Tonale over the New Year. To add diversity to our days instead of just skiing (see <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/01/how-i-learned-to-like-skiing-7-simple-rules.html">How I Learned to Like Skiing – 7 Simple Rules</a>), we looked for hikes to do. Here, we show two simple hikes of under two hours that we did on Jan 2 and Jan 3, 2024. There are hikes more waiting to be discovered in this area.</p>Both hikes were done in the late afternoon, so we hiked into dusk for both. Start earlier if you can.<br /><br /><h3 id="hike1" style="text-align: left;">Hike 1: Tour delle Marmotte </h3><br /><u>Duration</u>: 1.25 hours <br /><u>Elevation</u>: 60 m gain (estimate) <br /><u>Length</u>: 6 km <br /><br />Our path on this day we cut short because of waning light and a freezing wind! Otherwise, we would have taken the road up to the cozy <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/2jCJ1JG2KW6KLJ5q6">Ospizio San Bartolomeo</a> (now called Hotel/Restaurant Mirandola). We, in fact, visited this hotel/restaurant twice in the days before this hike. We include some of those photos here. We had a nice lunch at Ospizio one day and an afternoon hot drink on another. <br /><br />On the way back into town for hike 1 we stopped at the <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/JkpvV12ex577N5TG8">Panificio Pezzani</a> to get some strudel to take home for dessert! Don’t miss it. <br /><br />Passo del Tonale is split between the regions of Lombary (Lombardia in Italian) and Trentino-South Tyrol (Trentino-Alto Adige in Italian). The dividing line is at the landmark Military Memorial Passo del Tonale (Sacrario militare del Tonale). (See <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2023/03/street-sign-language-lesson-xl.html"><i>Street Sign Language Lesson XL</i></a>.) <br /><br />We started the walk <a href="http://46.25691391385609,%2010.585007707296743/">here</a>, near the area for campers. <div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilxWkL6tpx2S25f5RO2nwKxVe9Y4_JNlI1KqYM_sKtcdasApNIYcxM0h4wtCED0mf4hxK9hUey6_USrcwxTtL3nF7mepQyO42RWCXbJMCHE1lgunDcPM2gXrDz6snBcdbbfEnmlsJ3GgWICFzXcZNpGi6CxbSXEaaaVpbLamONnlmDy9rgdNjnEOvc2w/s4032/Passo%20del%20Tonale%20view%20north%20from%20Tour%20delle%20Marmotte%20trail.jpg"><img alt="Passo del Tonale view north from Tour delle Marmotte trail" border="0" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilxWkL6tpx2S25f5RO2nwKxVe9Y4_JNlI1KqYM_sKtcdasApNIYcxM0h4wtCED0mf4hxK9hUey6_USrcwxTtL3nF7mepQyO42RWCXbJMCHE1lgunDcPM2gXrDz6snBcdbbfEnmlsJ3GgWICFzXcZNpGi6CxbSXEaaaVpbLamONnlmDy9rgdNjnEOvc2w/w180-h135/Passo%20del%20Tonale%20view%20north%20from%20Tour%20delle%20Marmotte%20trail.jpg" title="Passo del Tonale view north from Tour delle Marmotte trail" width="180" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9KfAN1y-G4hdEkv6UHAcFun6J939LoF8-02o8Cg7apQD8W4J_7eCkgmXKJFDSTfXreuqlh6FHDePeu051KShrqIUgiHMGdTpowoUKh_rzL4ZsuKw-7Ra2YIW9d9dqz8ysqb5qENOck16medxt4nk3RY7jCcWM-Ls17QoHtRe_0q4uHfvtajLteGSchw/s4080/Tour%20delle%20Marmotte%20trail%20with%20fresh%20snow.jpg"><img alt="Tour delle Marmotte trail with fresh snow between trees" border="0" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9KfAN1y-G4hdEkv6UHAcFun6J939LoF8-02o8Cg7apQD8W4J_7eCkgmXKJFDSTfXreuqlh6FHDePeu051KShrqIUgiHMGdTpowoUKh_rzL4ZsuKw-7Ra2YIW9d9dqz8ysqb5qENOck16medxt4nk3RY7jCcWM-Ls17QoHtRe_0q4uHfvtajLteGSchw/w179-h135/Tour%20delle%20Marmotte%20trail%20with%20fresh%20snow.jpg" title="Tour delle Marmotte trail with fresh snow between trees" width="179" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKwHcjhzL-fQ6xbAH0C3gcRJAM-WiNjbAIXANRrNZmJfIvxBjMR0TaJunWeD8-IEpSdLRtJg8AfR7lnbm0J_mlQbRRAZYC-CGgZVq7bhcC82ZWX6gfdpVXOvHXr6cDFQ20Dq-Z-Xe-0hVRcUXGwNRMR5gad5FIkBqNq6i36EmJ69lnKbNX6O6Z2sWQww/s4032/In%20some%20deep%20snow%20on%20Tour%20delle%20Marmotte.jpg"><img alt="In some deep snow on Tour delle Marmotte" border="0" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKwHcjhzL-fQ6xbAH0C3gcRJAM-WiNjbAIXANRrNZmJfIvxBjMR0TaJunWeD8-IEpSdLRtJg8AfR7lnbm0J_mlQbRRAZYC-CGgZVq7bhcC82ZWX6gfdpVXOvHXr6cDFQ20Dq-Z-Xe-0hVRcUXGwNRMR5gad5FIkBqNq6i36EmJ69lnKbNX6O6Z2sWQww/w179-h135/In%20some%20deep%20snow%20on%20Tour%20delle%20Marmotte.jpg" title="In some deep snow on Tour delle Marmotte" width="179" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Left: Passo del Tonale view north from Tour delle Marmotte trail.<br />Center and right: Tour delle Marmotte trail with fresh snow between trees.<br /></b></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJVkSntu66YeacZ0DyaPGV6q-W6vmhkyj-BJRuImBttrwl_yrlgyMWD3oJsY1yhg9fdZjvAuX-U7I0Bqh5QXW3IhT4KIyStcjaOmWbvPcn2GjtFaimFp8L_AdWxZcmuBR38tNBmIUcjZ6OU1h7YUMK9u3hm_hfWxriPipm2K85Uqy2AmtulAJzL6jikg/s4032/Panificio%20Pezzani%20strudel.jpg"><img alt="Panificio Pezzani (Passo del Tonale) strudel" border="0" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJVkSntu66YeacZ0DyaPGV6q-W6vmhkyj-BJRuImBttrwl_yrlgyMWD3oJsY1yhg9fdZjvAuX-U7I0Bqh5QXW3IhT4KIyStcjaOmWbvPcn2GjtFaimFp8L_AdWxZcmuBR38tNBmIUcjZ6OU1h7YUMK9u3hm_hfWxriPipm2K85Uqy2AmtulAJzL6jikg/w149-h111/Panificio%20Pezzani%20strudel.jpg" title="Panificio Pezzani (Passo del Tonale) strudel" width="149" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4OyjLanBIoMhyphenhyphenBwWrXRJ7IBo0NRO1ti_JsDGqdyBN1NYxDjAoJNFpVEUKowq4yOYlSXlj6prP_2e0JbdZPwAL1RhuZvoabCZyRSHEVOcNB5zvr6VV9LT4Eum1FrrE_nMHsUk970cxqV-97rZ5vVJPaHTh0mIjQONRrc-AqFykasRXbqTJ-Q_k10xbFg/s4080/The%20Valbiolo%20Ski%20Lift%20at%20Dusk%202.jpg"><img alt="The Valbiolo Ski Lift at Dusk - from Hotel Mirandola" border="0" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4OyjLanBIoMhyphenhyphenBwWrXRJ7IBo0NRO1ti_JsDGqdyBN1NYxDjAoJNFpVEUKowq4yOYlSXlj6prP_2e0JbdZPwAL1RhuZvoabCZyRSHEVOcNB5zvr6VV9LT4Eum1FrrE_nMHsUk970cxqV-97rZ5vVJPaHTh0mIjQONRrc-AqFykasRXbqTJ-Q_k10xbFg/w83-h111/The%20Valbiolo%20Ski%20Lift%20at%20Dusk%202.jpg" title="The Valbiolo Ski Lift at Dusk - from Hotel Mirandola" width="83" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-iLAJKVRhNrSSpYlT2cKKb5eQqYLt8fuuGqDKHduWnbvUPhSbKtfwMcrjkOYwdZILoLjW4O2GsB611A5edZnxg17PGVlqki9mphjXDZ1d7d223z6a1GsRxAoSdqgvKL9bhTsPSaYWQIWpuF0v5MapxeeI_uCMXBdQlJ_IRFz2bVEJnikAsoQtTqo2lQ/s4032/Walking%20hear%20Opsizio%20San%20Bartolomeo%20at%20dusk.JPG"><img alt="Walking near Opsizio San Bartolomeo at dusk" border="0" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-iLAJKVRhNrSSpYlT2cKKb5eQqYLt8fuuGqDKHduWnbvUPhSbKtfwMcrjkOYwdZILoLjW4O2GsB611A5edZnxg17PGVlqki9mphjXDZ1d7d223z6a1GsRxAoSdqgvKL9bhTsPSaYWQIWpuF0v5MapxeeI_uCMXBdQlJ_IRFz2bVEJnikAsoQtTqo2lQ/w148-h111/Walking%20hear%20Opsizio%20San%20Bartolomeo%20at%20dusk.JPG" title="Walking near Opsizio San Bartolomeo at dusk" width="148" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie8FC6Y3rv251iILZwHWc1ZoYooUQQ-1C5bx4rf6n0_EFh_eYJ6hYyWRoc9Vwi168TWMVPDfeXcXfuimz7-sE7fbUIOJ02IdL3eL8Pts5Kvhx97VXroPp2dm6GJZa3eSbM3we6pBXAQD2XSQg0MCnH72-Zqta2r8ZT54tW-9jl7OJCpTPklTxApSi3UA/s4032/Tour%20delle%20Marmotte%20trail.jpg"><img alt="Tour delle Marmotte trail" border="0" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie8FC6Y3rv251iILZwHWc1ZoYooUQQ-1C5bx4rf6n0_EFh_eYJ6hYyWRoc9Vwi168TWMVPDfeXcXfuimz7-sE7fbUIOJ02IdL3eL8Pts5Kvhx97VXroPp2dm6GJZa3eSbM3we6pBXAQD2XSQg0MCnH72-Zqta2r8ZT54tW-9jl7OJCpTPklTxApSi3UA/w148-h111/Tour%20delle%20Marmotte%20trail.jpg" title="Tour delle Marmotte trail" width="148" /></a> </div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: Strudel from Panificio Pezzani, Passo del Tonale.<br />Center left: View from Hotel Mirandola toward sunset and Valbiolo chairlift.<br />Center right: Walking near Ospizio San Bartolomeo/Hotel Mirandola.<br />Right: Starting off on the Tour delle Marmotte trail.</span></b><br /><div><br /></div></div><h3 id="hike2" style="text-align: left;">Hike 2: Walk to Galleria Alveo </h3><div><br /></div><u>Duration</u>: 1.5 hours <br /><u>Elevation</u>: 235 m <br /><u>Length</u>: 8.5 km <br /><br />Last summer, we took the gondola up to see the Presena Glacier (see <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2023/08/presena-glacier-summer-visit-to-covered.html">Presena Glacier – A summer visit to the covered glacier</a>). On this hike, we follow the path partly up to the glacier from the pass. Our turnaround point is the Alveo tunnel (Galleria Alveo), a short tunnel through the mountain. The tunnel was made during WWI. If you continue on this trail, you would reach the ex-military village of Monticelli (dating to WW1) and Rifugio Capanna Presena. This is numbered trail 281. (Other references and photos: <a href="https://sentiericamuni.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/alveo-del-presena-dal-tonale/">here</a> and <a href="https://www.wikiloc.com/snowshoeing-trails/val-di-sole-cima-presena-per-lalta-val-presena-e-la-bocchetta-della-sgualdrina-dal-parcheggio-del-d-34407596">here</a>.) <br /><br />Alveo in Italian is “riverbed”, referring to the riverbed plateau the trail takes you to. The river is caused by glacier runoff. <br /><br />Hold on to the ropes in the tunnel. It was very slippery even though it didn’t look to be so. <br /><br />We started the walk <a href="http://46.25691391385609,%2010.585007707296743/">here</a>, near the area for campers. This trail is called 723 – Tour delle Marmotte, which we walked part of in Hike1. Instead of following Marmotte all the way, at this point we caught the trail to Presena (<a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/ty1S1r5fT2RX7hae9">here</a> or <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/5WFQg4Rje8du5CWC7">here</a> if there is a lot of snow). <div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAmoIWDb40c-TW56XYvJZ9Wq6TTJgMN8I7_76QPNjkywVLst7ZHnJ3G4eXtkfGT8hqo2XXpOcmNy080HVOigWGK59BHpuiSKcqXZ35uaR9rIQP1VqRiKxC92FHk_He3bWcvkbnPnaeU37qj9GEfnUpFS7biEdcydPxfCeUZWfzpWuHgt4Ab2lfpJM4cA/s4032/Alveo%20Presena%20Trail%20Sign%20CA%20281.jpg"><img alt="Alveo Presena Trail Sign CA 281" border="0" height="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAmoIWDb40c-TW56XYvJZ9Wq6TTJgMN8I7_76QPNjkywVLst7ZHnJ3G4eXtkfGT8hqo2XXpOcmNy080HVOigWGK59BHpuiSKcqXZ35uaR9rIQP1VqRiKxC92FHk_He3bWcvkbnPnaeU37qj9GEfnUpFS7biEdcydPxfCeUZWfzpWuHgt4Ab2lfpJM4cA/w87-h115/Alveo%20Presena%20Trail%20Sign%20CA%20281.jpg" title="Alveo Presena Trail Sign CA 281" width="87" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1gM_WGFtiAhfVM6CRoQttyhPdexWLHwv9ylIzV0zdNTJptGy8Gu7B4uenioZ-j3N2idB-HnqAAzw7GGAJqRidzsMAKiCfrwaMBhbo_QsfGZkJTHj1l1SkeZxj3lHgwQ_ENsPySkPsty1Dmg_KOBQEq2gzJLVIEA2q9nasmSpWbabTn0NGqg7zGplTiw/s4130/Mountains%20below%20and%20to%20the%20north%20of%20Cima%20Cercen.jpg"><img alt="Mountains below and to the north of Cima Cercen" border="0" height="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1gM_WGFtiAhfVM6CRoQttyhPdexWLHwv9ylIzV0zdNTJptGy8Gu7B4uenioZ-j3N2idB-HnqAAzw7GGAJqRidzsMAKiCfrwaMBhbo_QsfGZkJTHj1l1SkeZxj3lHgwQ_ENsPySkPsty1Dmg_KOBQEq2gzJLVIEA2q9nasmSpWbabTn0NGqg7zGplTiw/w295-h115/Mountains%20below%20and%20to%20the%20north%20of%20Cima%20Cercen.jpg" title="Mountains below and to the north of Cima Cercen" width="295" /></a> </div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: Trail sign for CAI 281.<br />Right: View from Trail 218 looking east, near the Galleria Alveo.</span></b><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihgcQpLZB3G9-5Lest6rYTKkBPRS3UFig0mcuzg7oH9bbZpA61W8kaBhFJLmUZOm-gaq9viOg44ht6-7sCeevv2XPoCwivY8jSg0jcqTyoET8wAp-zXghrvy2_H9j9FV6rbxv7__XzNYGbdGf81z2jmoZuoKY_3VJ-Aqy6t4_v4KS5x7rFSWOhAUBK0w/s4080/Ice%20formations%202.jpg"><img alt="Ice formations in Galleria Alveo" border="0" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihgcQpLZB3G9-5Lest6rYTKkBPRS3UFig0mcuzg7oH9bbZpA61W8kaBhFJLmUZOm-gaq9viOg44ht6-7sCeevv2XPoCwivY8jSg0jcqTyoET8wAp-zXghrvy2_H9j9FV6rbxv7__XzNYGbdGf81z2jmoZuoKY_3VJ-Aqy6t4_v4KS5x7rFSWOhAUBK0w/w114-h151/Ice%20formations%202.jpg" title="Ice formations in Galleria Alveo" width="114" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlFt1nVdONaq0VTwa30JvGu5LkkTcK0wUGMEChzNLzbtQ7PrQlloC1V6-JNYrw9cOGGN4FT2SP4580xH-oe1GEdNJ9ELr0UfjlW9p3k5eMVYlKKSgQ4cLWHkdKGMBU7gwHKJMivvjNPuO5GJq8M9NdXKFv-oj9o7W0k-fyaHyY58GUVgoLk3kuBhp_tg/s4080/Ice%20formations%203.jpg"><img alt="Ice formations in Galleria Alveo" border="0" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlFt1nVdONaq0VTwa30JvGu5LkkTcK0wUGMEChzNLzbtQ7PrQlloC1V6-JNYrw9cOGGN4FT2SP4580xH-oe1GEdNJ9ELr0UfjlW9p3k5eMVYlKKSgQ4cLWHkdKGMBU7gwHKJMivvjNPuO5GJq8M9NdXKFv-oj9o7W0k-fyaHyY58GUVgoLk3kuBhp_tg/w116-h153/Ice%20formations%203.jpg" title="Ice formations in Galleria Alveo" width="116" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD1wFJfIu0UXf2EY-StHu6V9_Ra95cELKiR34lIZaRHPVX0Zx8v8HBdTLxRrXw42N6B4Apb4yzePuaNrg7cHnex6-mIpqMT5Xxh4LwSzgBfiM1PewApCrFAjmZBy8XR2xIW5ttih0uz2TcC9dnfqLROOFWOgNBnZ9wCA3X2B-S_CHbWWvcgdY5uTZT8Q/s4080/Ice%20formations%204.jpg"><img alt="Ice formations in Galleria Alveo" border="0" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD1wFJfIu0UXf2EY-StHu6V9_Ra95cELKiR34lIZaRHPVX0Zx8v8HBdTLxRrXw42N6B4Apb4yzePuaNrg7cHnex6-mIpqMT5Xxh4LwSzgBfiM1PewApCrFAjmZBy8XR2xIW5ttih0uz2TcC9dnfqLROOFWOgNBnZ9wCA3X2B-S_CHbWWvcgdY5uTZT8Q/w116-h153/Ice%20formations%204.jpg" title="Ice formations in Galleria Alveo" width="116" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMfukQtPK5G2hZ8Abjiztay4hKARmp37RcTf2XTQJuVGst-CkeuZrqOgLC8dQv3PVjF9Q_1ih3RXTbq2CzpWDsD0OXEhOchjrX2b0qPMdSBm2ujtUlk_ORKTzsl50yFhh6DB1e3jkJIZlMkQaPBXMfDVBymQmTQShHRmbjytFgVBxlrf4rC6Ux8pQnpg/s4080/Ice%20formations.jpg"><img alt="Ice formations near Galleria Alveo" border="0" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMfukQtPK5G2hZ8Abjiztay4hKARmp37RcTf2XTQJuVGst-CkeuZrqOgLC8dQv3PVjF9Q_1ih3RXTbq2CzpWDsD0OXEhOchjrX2b0qPMdSBm2ujtUlk_ORKTzsl50yFhh6DB1e3jkJIZlMkQaPBXMfDVBymQmTQShHRmbjytFgVBxlrf4rC6Ux8pQnpg/w200-h151/Ice%20formations.jpg" title="Ice formations near Galleria Alveo" width="200" /></a><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ice formations in and near the Galleria Alveo.</span></b><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWgP1WQ9nXbRTZAqUzbhb4lUKbHNqfD87ojB8BvdN7w4tOGbh3NtTbYTxXaTiledUPcV2Dd345lowR5BnBfDpuZ8fIs22xzIQzybMdcKJcmK3eWw3OY9bc5oV2VcI_Pn-n9f4YCZHYkWTLgijXHO3cYUrBdTSnQ0Kqptfbg1U_NUgDbv46tOts2jk1KA/s4080/Near%20Tour%20delle%20Marmotte%20but%20off%20trail%20and%20in%20fresh%20snow.jpg"><img alt="Near Tour delle Marmotte but off trail and in fresh snow" border="0" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWgP1WQ9nXbRTZAqUzbhb4lUKbHNqfD87ojB8BvdN7w4tOGbh3NtTbYTxXaTiledUPcV2Dd345lowR5BnBfDpuZ8fIs22xzIQzybMdcKJcmK3eWw3OY9bc5oV2VcI_Pn-n9f4YCZHYkWTLgijXHO3cYUrBdTSnQ0Kqptfbg1U_NUgDbv46tOts2jk1KA/w183-h138/Near%20Tour%20delle%20Marmotte%20but%20off%20trail%20and%20in%20fresh%20snow.jpg" title="Near Tour delle Marmotte but off trail and in fresh snow" width="183" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbiLKXPVNWNvPoU5ZRwN3_kJlLsgxNn6mTS6VnV8BeG7OLKZUm9IoCSdArkuXyeeKxHY-gcy5GW_QbC5itkHsn0lNMVYq_Q26P2FKAhq03nJ7bWdweMG-NCJcZfuAkxD-PLIXAkYlE-TXecn1ZQUXahdS8hmpKfzp7NUflnipmIIpREiMTiTNslNLZDg/s4032/Passo%20del%20Tonale%20in%20the%20late%20afternoon%20winter%20sun%20-%20Monte%20Tonale%20Occidentale%20visible.jpg"><img alt="Passo del Tonale in the late afternoon winter sun - Monte Tonale Occidentale visible" border="0" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbiLKXPVNWNvPoU5ZRwN3_kJlLsgxNn6mTS6VnV8BeG7OLKZUm9IoCSdArkuXyeeKxHY-gcy5GW_QbC5itkHsn0lNMVYq_Q26P2FKAhq03nJ7bWdweMG-NCJcZfuAkxD-PLIXAkYlE-TXecn1ZQUXahdS8hmpKfzp7NUflnipmIIpREiMTiTNslNLZDg/w184-h138/Passo%20del%20Tonale%20in%20the%20late%20afternoon%20winter%20sun%20-%20Monte%20Tonale%20Occidentale%20visible.jpg" title="Passo del Tonale in the late afternoon winter sun - Monte Tonale Occidentale visible" width="184" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQWpmNOtWFpBScsBSa2hDhA1vsQM5CSLGWHVphYv8aE0V1xNXlwsJTWZVWuuz_1lr8bgAncTrgppMr2NzVDKJXz5ZpQ0CUMrPczkFAzkX-eTc-nGXnsl1UVvtKFREvD37ynX0fO_XuRJyKpaq0kgN8t9wUN0MO6D7zLjnGqXnXXStg-KBPrebLIoCjSg/s4080/Road%20-%20trail%20leading%20to%20Galleria%20Alveo.jpg"><img alt="Road - trail leading to Galleria Alveo" border="0" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQWpmNOtWFpBScsBSa2hDhA1vsQM5CSLGWHVphYv8aE0V1xNXlwsJTWZVWuuz_1lr8bgAncTrgppMr2NzVDKJXz5ZpQ0CUMrPczkFAzkX-eTc-nGXnsl1UVvtKFREvD37ynX0fO_XuRJyKpaq0kgN8t9wUN0MO6D7zLjnGqXnXXStg-KBPrebLIoCjSg/w183-h137/Road%20-%20trail%20leading%20to%20Galleria%20Alveo.jpg" title="Road - trail leading to Galleria Alveo" width="183" /></a></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left and center: Passo del Tonale in the late afternoon winter sun - Monte Tonale Occidentale visible.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Right: The CAI 281 trail and approaching the tunnel opening.<br /></span></b><div><br /></div><div><a 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Why are tunnels fascinating?</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY3ywwtdtGD4IUZ5a6WK-duO3rpQOll8-56fV5f2oRh0fOYKO8P1AOWwxhG0Rch_3lFpdbIyLTLfY6qFrMiB-YyTn0HYZtjUgTC_HsNUHpmLEl5WxyiFbS1i7nZPLTBI1g7fTolAMbmwYFuDnQ1mR4WrNrlPXde7Hmg7WLLQMAbDAZMgdxdVg5up6BMw/s4080/Galleria%20Alveo%20-%20entrance%20in%20winter.jpg"><img alt="Galleria Alveo - entrance in winter" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY3ywwtdtGD4IUZ5a6WK-duO3rpQOll8-56fV5f2oRh0fOYKO8P1AOWwxhG0Rch_3lFpdbIyLTLfY6qFrMiB-YyTn0HYZtjUgTC_HsNUHpmLEl5WxyiFbS1i7nZPLTBI1g7fTolAMbmwYFuDnQ1mR4WrNrlPXde7Hmg7WLLQMAbDAZMgdxdVg5up6BMw/w136-h180/Galleria%20Alveo%20-%20entrance%20in%20winter.jpg" title="Galleria Alveo - entrance in winter" width="136" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCBGIeGe5h2S7g2Bv2AM3tGJ9b15QSImkhZU7KA3JpKtaujhvZPW-Rm0QvdFD8LCAyc8Al2o__moVchB_SvXxczsGgSDKRw92B4KpthpV4GOgeTxdg1V-MBSaBe6yCioFK_cHfHPcsmL_EXo-kJktF6juwG5Khat0C29wFs3aOsYsNKJhRI7R5Hrhg-Q/s4080/Galleria%20Alveo%20inside.jpg"><img alt="Galleria Alveo icicles in winter" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCBGIeGe5h2S7g2Bv2AM3tGJ9b15QSImkhZU7KA3JpKtaujhvZPW-Rm0QvdFD8LCAyc8Al2o__moVchB_SvXxczsGgSDKRw92B4KpthpV4GOgeTxdg1V-MBSaBe6yCioFK_cHfHPcsmL_EXo-kJktF6juwG5Khat0C29wFs3aOsYsNKJhRI7R5Hrhg-Q/w136-h180/Galleria%20Alveo%20inside.jpg" title="Galleria Alveo icicles in winter" width="136" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkVR7u_JvIz2-ka9NqUQVejjPtj2eE3wwfZ3jF8H0bR7JuOd4szDgenx-1M8iG9Ye4EXL8qbEp17IU8OUWvG9WUyhoRS_-0xznh1mgwIuMfz0EheGR7HWXeDiYEGK230xRAbyyBlKvA3viDpF1YccmGd2WTuggV40ZI5YEHDeIjHzcUTv44qqIqkuwDg/s4080/Galleria%20Alveo%20in%20winter%20with%20icicles%20overhead.jpg"><img alt="Galleria Alveo inside in winter with icicles overhead" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkVR7u_JvIz2-ka9NqUQVejjPtj2eE3wwfZ3jF8H0bR7JuOd4szDgenx-1M8iG9Ye4EXL8qbEp17IU8OUWvG9WUyhoRS_-0xznh1mgwIuMfz0EheGR7HWXeDiYEGK230xRAbyyBlKvA3viDpF1YccmGd2WTuggV40ZI5YEHDeIjHzcUTv44qqIqkuwDg/w136-h180/Galleria%20Alveo%20in%20winter%20with%20icicles%20overhead.jpg" title="Galleria Alveo inside in winter with icicles overhead" width="136" /></a><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Galleria Alveo - a helmet might be smart to wear inside given those icicles!</span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><h3 id="area" style="text-align: left;">The area </h3><br />Eastern Alps <br /><div>--|Southern Rhaetian Alps (28 in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOIUSA">SOIUSA classification</a> of the Alps, highest peak Ortler at 3,905 m) <br />--|--|Adamello-Presanella Alps (II/C-28.III SOIUSA, highest peak Presanella at 3,558 m) <br /><br />The Adamello-Presanella Alps Alpine group is a mountain range in the Southern Limestone Alps mountain group of the Eastern Alps. It is located in northern Italy, in the provinces of Trentino and Brescia. The name stems from its highest peaks: Adamello and Presanella. The Tonale Pass separates the Adamello-Presanella Alps from the Ortler Apls to the the north. </div><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div>TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com038029 Passo del Tonale TN, Italy46.260815099999988 10.587877617.950581263821142 -24.5683724 74.57104893617884 45.7441276tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-48692020680757769922024-01-11T07:00:00.008+01:002024-01-11T09:20:14.600+01:00How I Learned to Like Skiing – 7 Simple Rules<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxD5AWLK_ObS6rl7T88oM9eR55DvQOePOdnF7qjayPHHg-hj9ArUcXcjyL1pHdLj6F91WTLSNTHPQSZ_qi69QBK8J3xxeEjTzIhsC97oX8_7hSMEPPXTpHJwlx9j531OSmAofP-4yTAr4URCnIO01jDlKIfSHDIigh2oaB_jNM8686Kwh8UVqzTiVtYw/s4032/Passo%20del%20Tonale%20-%20Contrabanddieri%20Run%20with%20fog%20in%20the%20valley.JPG"><img alt="Passo del Tonale - Contrabanddieri Run with fog in the valley - 2023" border="0" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxD5AWLK_ObS6rl7T88oM9eR55DvQOePOdnF7qjayPHHg-hj9ArUcXcjyL1pHdLj6F91WTLSNTHPQSZ_qi69QBK8J3xxeEjTzIhsC97oX8_7hSMEPPXTpHJwlx9j531OSmAofP-4yTAr4URCnIO01jDlKIfSHDIigh2oaB_jNM8686Kwh8UVqzTiVtYw/w188-h140/Passo%20del%20Tonale%20-%20Contrabanddieri%20Run%20with%20fog%20in%20the%20valley.JPG" title="Passo del Tonale - Contrabanddieri Run with fog in the valley - 2023" width="188" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge3OJ3On-8yIkELiJ5DPIbafG5x4s4CfAw8zBness98R7XyfCJZ1qvD6hqiTk7l0UMQJsv9rYKgl8NEFuztf5b4ls3Xjc-LWGMUVZ2JpBJPOBnGLW_4YgEGETB6Qg4tyOTSTN9bOyJFlksSiyaBknnbalAG0yJxQvIAm99FKhF6cfS4uAdRBTmcHLbxA/s4032/Rifugio%20Santa%20Croce%20-%20La%20Crusc%20-%20Alta%20Badia%20-%20Italy.JPG"><img alt="Rifugio Santa Croce - La Crusc - Alta Badia - Italy - 2018" border="0" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge3OJ3On-8yIkELiJ5DPIbafG5x4s4CfAw8zBness98R7XyfCJZ1qvD6hqiTk7l0UMQJsv9rYKgl8NEFuztf5b4ls3Xjc-LWGMUVZ2JpBJPOBnGLW_4YgEGETB6Qg4tyOTSTN9bOyJFlksSiyaBknnbalAG0yJxQvIAm99FKhF6cfS4uAdRBTmcHLbxA/w186-h140/Rifugio%20Santa%20Croce%20-%20La%20Crusc%20-%20Alta%20Badia%20-%20Italy.JPG" title="Rifugio Santa Croce - La Crusc - Alta Badia - Italy - 2018" width="186" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPBLLRnusD_cjcYwsDwUs_FCwuQZ3IxaAseSD2z_3xJ_JcLPk41uprMRUcn_iuKFS-mzEfN2oVkZapxk5j3KLmMwThj8ld713JftettYYK1gWJ56UftRqgG0cu_Md43rgrYrTrGgwqHTb8B_5KtQLL5UaaME5IQdmrCnDahgUKR-p6GdB0XbV4bEUjVg/s4032/Sella%20Pass%20-%20Canazei%20-%20Italy.JPG"><img alt="Sella Pass - Canazei - Italy - 2019" border="0" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPBLLRnusD_cjcYwsDwUs_FCwuQZ3IxaAseSD2z_3xJ_JcLPk41uprMRUcn_iuKFS-mzEfN2oVkZapxk5j3KLmMwThj8ld713JftettYYK1gWJ56UftRqgG0cu_Md43rgrYrTrGgwqHTb8B_5KtQLL5UaaME5IQdmrCnDahgUKR-p6GdB0XbV4bEUjVg/w187-h140/Sella%20Pass%20-%20Canazei%20-%20Italy.JPG" title="Sella Pass - Canazei - Italy - 2019" width="187" /></a><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: (2023) Passo del Tonale, Italy - Contrabanddieri Run with fog in the valley<br />Center: (2018) Alta Badia, Italy - Rifugio Santa Croce - La Crusc<br />Right: (2019) Canazei, Italy - Sella Pass </span></b><br /><br /><br /><b>1. Learn to say no. </b>If you don’t want to ski a “hard” run. Don’t do it. If you don’t feel like skiing one day, don’t. If a group of friends is going to tackle a ski run you don’t like or feel like skiing at the time, skip it. <br /><br /><b>2. Stop when you aren’t having fun.</b> The trick here is to realize when you aren’t having fun. For example, for me it’s when visibility goes way down and I can’t see the slope. Some skiers don’t mind that. I do. So, I stop. If I’m tired, getting sloppy, and am worried about falling, I stop. <br /><br /><b>3. Enjoy the other stuff around skiing: rifugio, people, environment.</b> For me, planning something before or after skiing helps break up the day. For example, ski in the morning and then an afternoon walk. Or vice versa. One day, we tried <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_mountaineering">skimo</a> and loved it. Other ideas: ski just a few hours and then explore a nearby village. Spend a long leisurely lunch or break in a rifugio. Bring a book. <br /><br /><b>4. Breathe.</b> I found that when heading down a slope that was a little tricky, I would hold my breath. A thoughtful big inhale and exhale before tackling the slope helps me. <br /><br /><b>5. Expect nonlinearity.</b> Weather, visibility, snow, how your body feels, group dynamics, skis, etc. change in time. One day, I ski great. The next day, horribly. Conditions? Me? I don’t know for sure but I accept it. <br /><br /><b>6. Experience and practice does make you better.</b> Find a slope that you like and get comfortable there. Ski it a dozen times to build confidence. <br /><br /><b>7. Don’t worry about what others think about you.</b> That applies to all endeavors. <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRsFEYVa-ORCkhHAhXMkKcDOwIBxCxdCasuqgt4PbVr8B-7hh7yF9RL7eUHjNElW-sngfsneQgwTR2jmI_LYm-JK4Do5Sz8W_NsuQiMn_U994ffg6XrQyONEu_qp_vJqkFarLNVDSjNJZAOxV-8Iom8ADRslKlEhY9kpA45qUKeH_N5bkyFUHOEzqFnw/s4032/Punto%20panoramico%20Grost%C3%A9%20-%20Madonna%20di%20Campiglio%20-%20Italy.JPG"><img alt="Punto panoramico Grosté - Madonna di Campiglio - Italy - 2019" border="0" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRsFEYVa-ORCkhHAhXMkKcDOwIBxCxdCasuqgt4PbVr8B-7hh7yF9RL7eUHjNElW-sngfsneQgwTR2jmI_LYm-JK4Do5Sz8W_NsuQiMn_U994ffg6XrQyONEu_qp_vJqkFarLNVDSjNJZAOxV-8Iom8ADRslKlEhY9kpA45qUKeH_N5bkyFUHOEzqFnw/w188-h141/Punto%20panoramico%20Grost%C3%A9%20-%20Madonna%20di%20Campiglio%20-%20Italy.JPG" title="Punto panoramico Grosté - Madonna di Campiglio - Italy - 2019" width="188" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOeq5GDjVAbmBZSMEhGpse8QzFLSuezM33ULE7tnwNF1XWz1Xri7v5iShg-3UQm5T7E68HNwnzrcZ60L7xAglw2wvomW3NZQbdUtNBpVERpkTx934Q24lokGH6EnTKcWsN7AHaeEWbyFc75O-05a0n-BUu5Q1Tvzbg9yq9tIlA0blHxehmkhMRJ4N0QA/s4032/Sassolungo%20-%20Selva%20-%20Italy.JPG"><img alt="Sassolungo - Selva - Italy - 2019" border="0" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOeq5GDjVAbmBZSMEhGpse8QzFLSuezM33ULE7tnwNF1XWz1Xri7v5iShg-3UQm5T7E68HNwnzrcZ60L7xAglw2wvomW3NZQbdUtNBpVERpkTx934Q24lokGH6EnTKcWsN7AHaeEWbyFc75O-05a0n-BUu5Q1Tvzbg9yq9tIlA0blHxehmkhMRJ4N0QA/w189-h141/Sassolungo%20-%20Selva%20-%20Italy.JPG" title="Sassolungo - Selva - Italy - 2019" width="189" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGsFl0vwxSX69ylK-sQZGsW3y1vuOZs0Im_ZDu_ag8L3wR2-BW0UKPnbxKK_WsQpEGDQbuYLjEYD_3YA_qHFSP2x1If_BbaBxuUUWMlU5HbjdxumY78SkBwCqIMkMfdXtgVyose0B1dl5dGtyLeMQlnGcP1M-A9uoYzJc6x7L0Ub5ZkbAiSMT5vuO-mg/s4032/Passo%20del%20Tonale%20-%20Italy%20-%20skimo%20in%20Valbiolo.JPG"><img alt="Passo del Tonale - Italy - skimo in Valbiolo - 2023" border="0" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGsFl0vwxSX69ylK-sQZGsW3y1vuOZs0Im_ZDu_ag8L3wR2-BW0UKPnbxKK_WsQpEGDQbuYLjEYD_3YA_qHFSP2x1If_BbaBxuUUWMlU5HbjdxumY78SkBwCqIMkMfdXtgVyose0B1dl5dGtyLeMQlnGcP1M-A9uoYzJc6x7L0Ub5ZkbAiSMT5vuO-mg/w187-h140/Passo%20del%20Tonale%20-%20Italy%20-%20skimo%20in%20Valbiolo.JPG" title="Passo del Tonale - Italy - skimo in Valbiolo - 2023" width="187" /></a><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: (2019) Madonna di Campiglio, Italy - Punto panoramico Grosté<br />Center: (2019) Selva, Italy - Sassolungo<br />Right: (2023) Passo del Tonale, Italy - skimo in Valbiolo</span></b><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5VVqg0WDKQpmlEBmfCeL1t1QLlTz1xAz4paScIyYVUT3xWdBIme6cYTtraTL9x15oDCwWJ_Xg-tI7LTg7Wo7qrUCqPjDtDlLJDiQOlgEnSc-l3KF3LfvChw4H_3N6S2Qf8oRuXQPeZUu4-uqttr8Ney5pPyOFmer7APWb99zFvihnSnj1qcDC6hEyHQ/s4032/Seefeld%20in%20Tirol%20-%20Austria%20-%20cross%20country%20ski%20tracks.JPG"><img alt="Seefeld in Tirol - Austria - cross country ski tracks - 2022" border="0" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5VVqg0WDKQpmlEBmfCeL1t1QLlTz1xAz4paScIyYVUT3xWdBIme6cYTtraTL9x15oDCwWJ_Xg-tI7LTg7Wo7qrUCqPjDtDlLJDiQOlgEnSc-l3KF3LfvChw4H_3N6S2Qf8oRuXQPeZUu4-uqttr8Ney5pPyOFmer7APWb99zFvihnSnj1qcDC6hEyHQ/w188-h141/Seefeld%20in%20Tirol%20-%20Austria%20-%20cross%20country%20ski%20tracks.JPG" title="Seefeld in Tirol - Austria - cross country ski tracks - 2022" width="188" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH1rUciR1QGpDAYkS3QStnMXwNNMa1nBKTI-qFiJn-GNBTQocEzsEKThsEDT3rvmLGRp78rTds5dTR-LSZ7Hj918Go-slYVGXaBdyJ3qqL4-nGv1Zb-xzxKF7dpRAFoYEsgijR_pNIF8-BjopS1_Cpx5ZbiamG084ZR-SSP9t5zYHtXRyP1BGAO-eYxg/s4032/Cogne%20-%20Italy%20-%20cross%20country%20ski%20tracks.JPG"><img alt="Cogne - Italy - cross country ski tracks - 2019" border="0" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH1rUciR1QGpDAYkS3QStnMXwNNMa1nBKTI-qFiJn-GNBTQocEzsEKThsEDT3rvmLGRp78rTds5dTR-LSZ7Hj918Go-slYVGXaBdyJ3qqL4-nGv1Zb-xzxKF7dpRAFoYEsgijR_pNIF8-BjopS1_Cpx5ZbiamG084ZR-SSP9t5zYHtXRyP1BGAO-eYxg/w189-h141/Cogne%20-%20Italy%20-%20cross%20country%20ski%20tracks.JPG" title="Cogne - Italy - cross country ski tracks - 2019" width="189" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWsneKRLzC0tpa1dVpXqfVC8y1ecIw1TbgZBYPLb-we6c9pDAN7vduBgfVZuIPCb91ni6AKF9O2WERNScLsF4TdOAw_MjNUtOgC2_5L-kjSS4Y_bjBAEizLwt6KVRa9wftoIqgdmzj0JHHGYT2ZJ9neGAa2VUMGtJVv-8XlKXiZ-Mw4e2q_bfoGm8JUw/s4032/Seefeld%20in%20Tirol%20-%20Austria%20-%20slope.JPG"><img alt="Seefeld in Tirol - Austria - slope - 2022" border="0" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWsneKRLzC0tpa1dVpXqfVC8y1ecIw1TbgZBYPLb-we6c9pDAN7vduBgfVZuIPCb91ni6AKF9O2WERNScLsF4TdOAw_MjNUtOgC2_5L-kjSS4Y_bjBAEizLwt6KVRa9wftoIqgdmzj0JHHGYT2ZJ9neGAa2VUMGtJVv-8XlKXiZ-Mw4e2q_bfoGm8JUw/w188-h141/Seefeld%20in%20Tirol%20-%20Austria%20-%20slope.JPG" title="Seefeld in Tirol - Austria - slope - 2022" width="188" /></a> </div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: (2022) Seefeld in Tirol, Austria - cross country ski tracks</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Center: (2019) Cogne, Italy - cross country ski tracks<br />Right: (2019) Seefeld in Tirol, Austria - slope</span></b><br /><br /></div>TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com0Italy41.87194 12.5673813.561706163821157 -22.58887 70.182173836178848 47.72363tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-58056154571340198362024-01-10T21:47:00.000+01:002024-01-10T21:47:15.193+01:00A Visit to Parco Naquane to See Paleolithic and Neolithic Rock Drawings in the Val Camonica<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/01/a-visit-to-parco-naquane-to-see-val-camonica-rock-drawings-unesco.html">Overview</a> ~ <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/01/a-visit-to-parco-naquane-to-see-val-camonica-rock-drawings-unesco.html#rock1">Rock 1</a> ~ <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/01/a-visit-to-parco-naquane-to-see-val-camonica-rock-drawings-unesco.html#rock23">Rock 23</a> ~ <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/01/a-visit-to-parco-naquane-to-see-val-camonica-rock-drawings-unesco.html#rock35">Rock 35</a> ~ <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/01/a-visit-to-parco-naquane-to-see-val-camonica-rock-drawings-unesco.html#rock44">Rock 44</a> ~ <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/01/a-visit-to-parco-naquane-to-see-val-camonica-rock-drawings-unesco.html#rock50">Rock 50</a> ~ <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2024/01/a-visit-to-parco-naquane-to-see-val-camonica-rock-drawings-unesco.html#parck">General park photos</a></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt7_UdtK70CbUB6wjujdx06A8vILSxt-kx1Ib7UDXCOWrL048VQWtYtCGPsmCMNcasPju9Huxv7UUw705vPuGOfeRXTHPD6xJCfopHNHN_g_yKo2Jlcj7mTi8eck0yc7121d1V5IJMNQKxzffdDBYVAFSRjdQXWgAZbMQVUTvIqeAjPn4LANpsTXWRnw/s4080/Rock%2050%20-%20side%20view.jpg"><img alt="Rock 50 - side view" border="0" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt7_UdtK70CbUB6wjujdx06A8vILSxt-kx1Ib7UDXCOWrL048VQWtYtCGPsmCMNcasPju9Huxv7UUw705vPuGOfeRXTHPD6xJCfopHNHN_g_yKo2Jlcj7mTi8eck0yc7121d1V5IJMNQKxzffdDBYVAFSRjdQXWgAZbMQVUTvIqeAjPn4LANpsTXWRnw/w175-h131/Rock%2050%20-%20side%20view.jpg" title="Rock 50 - side view" width="175" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm08G8LZ5nyc6WA02H8IUBfHKIje9pi_-ZS0MCPZZlmLPkrJjrCWiCVddRIlT_QfrymanyeFXm_C2Hgyeuzal_mfPy53B3pwilCZrfm-Ftf66i4dq_21Cx27g9VwJMH_rnCMxNmSo8XUe8vAiWZ1c1xFKQFQpyix_4SWMMoX0fKelsQzlVm4Le50m9bA/s4032/Rock%201%20-%20Sector%20T.jpg"><img alt="Rock 1 - Sector T" border="0" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm08G8LZ5nyc6WA02H8IUBfHKIje9pi_-ZS0MCPZZlmLPkrJjrCWiCVddRIlT_QfrymanyeFXm_C2Hgyeuzal_mfPy53B3pwilCZrfm-Ftf66i4dq_21Cx27g9VwJMH_rnCMxNmSo8XUe8vAiWZ1c1xFKQFQpyix_4SWMMoX0fKelsQzlVm4Le50m9bA/w175-h131/Rock%201%20-%20Sector%20T.jpg" title="Rock 1 - Sector T" width="175" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijIAaYjO_lNK8Zf61dx_PIaKi7bBIX1ZpgzIPTCU4Z9sM0np9NidN3oQS3gzxBoRHb2rltMAD8FK6jQu0_uu7YWbh6VzH4t-K33NJhWTO6dwex7wnv4aWIAs1U3jOtmPoY98RGhyphenhyphenkf-Zt5eGPNPWBfRnrj9oIGMaLFxnxv5f4vLRkYQGoUXsK-rsAJUw/s4032/Rock%2035%20-%20The%20Running%20Priest.jpg"><img alt="Rock 35 - The running priest - close-up" border="0" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijIAaYjO_lNK8Zf61dx_PIaKi7bBIX1ZpgzIPTCU4Z9sM0np9NidN3oQS3gzxBoRHb2rltMAD8FK6jQu0_uu7YWbh6VzH4t-K33NJhWTO6dwex7wnv4aWIAs1U3jOtmPoY98RGhyphenhyphenkf-Zt5eGPNPWBfRnrj9oIGMaLFxnxv5f4vLRkYQGoUXsK-rsAJUw/w99-h131/Rock%2035%20-%20The%20Running%20Priest.jpg" title="Rock 35 - The running priest - close-up" width="99" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig6zE2Dxd7H-EIbwUMagpIui8SDwpeGwGD6olcxs-xKDCUsSk56xrFMhz_E3AxMc7T9zgfyHRAOeC5jHfmM27HYld9So_h7zX-yLYJ83WuIoazg-5cuTJ1-WmHUVCDfWcLmtRMXmskBtFKTutjeq7yg28bgIImKFsT-k10_xi9tFoBJjtGvkRkt6f4DQ/s4032/Rock%2050%20-%20figure.jpg"><img alt="Rock 50 - figure" border="0" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig6zE2Dxd7H-EIbwUMagpIui8SDwpeGwGD6olcxs-xKDCUsSk56xrFMhz_E3AxMc7T9zgfyHRAOeC5jHfmM27HYld9So_h7zX-yLYJ83WuIoazg-5cuTJ1-WmHUVCDfWcLmtRMXmskBtFKTutjeq7yg28bgIImKFsT-k10_xi9tFoBJjtGvkRkt6f4DQ/w99-h132/Rock%2050%20-%20figure.jpg" title="Rock 50 - figure" width="99" /></a><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvPhlU5SUKw1cWZuBcY3sQaq1BKgkig4Nx5uw_5MwHSJ9y7Yc4NoGADiZ6QW83MLXiQo4moj05oaRjZh3g077rqOxkbsg8xm13JF9N3SfAZzveO2re_XwJpIE5ZBm7IfR2JvHVyxjONHyYDXQcOik9K9THVDzdZAdUzlFA45YX75b5GFLyHy4gEJbuxg/s4032/Naquane%20Park%20-%20view%20toward%20Concarena.jpg"><img alt="Naquane Park - view toward Concarena" border="0" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvPhlU5SUKw1cWZuBcY3sQaq1BKgkig4Nx5uw_5MwHSJ9y7Yc4NoGADiZ6QW83MLXiQo4moj05oaRjZh3g077rqOxkbsg8xm13JF9N3SfAZzveO2re_XwJpIE5ZBm7IfR2JvHVyxjONHyYDXQcOik9K9THVDzdZAdUzlFA45YX75b5GFLyHy4gEJbuxg/w186-h140/Naquane%20Park%20-%20view%20toward%20Concarena.jpg" title="Naquane Park - view toward Concarena" width="186" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpbsdFlpBQL734RrgSbStNKFti0u_t0LjnnGmUjMpTEJG11N7XhBsQb24ooSKAdUklp2VTyDblmKN_tkEx-HkidGZbJt12hmYnCwfdM1jFXnvQe_nOpcbpbCLJGKF0-_jCqYmrAvH63ggBFSLdAOim_aMKIHpAcNK7-F3_E8SHnTA-fbStvORBrVFkDw/s4032/Naquane%20Park%20-%20first%20view%20upon%20entering.jpg"><img alt="Naquane Park - first view upon entering" border="0" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpbsdFlpBQL734RrgSbStNKFti0u_t0LjnnGmUjMpTEJG11N7XhBsQb24ooSKAdUklp2VTyDblmKN_tkEx-HkidGZbJt12hmYnCwfdM1jFXnvQe_nOpcbpbCLJGKF0-_jCqYmrAvH63ggBFSLdAOim_aMKIHpAcNK7-F3_E8SHnTA-fbStvORBrVFkDw/w187-h141/Naquane%20Park%20-%20first%20view%20upon%20entering.jpg" title="Naquane Park - first view upon entering" width="187" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBipgd-E76MGLDzCpn39CaTucbleqxiQmv_iuJZEAKh8kqTtyAz_PlIRglbToGsb2Kf35KsByZDK9jlXd72AaAxKMIdMKklWXzXHwLiKJCvePmnXL0-tA_-Il3xxcq7hWLeO3EYU_cWMhBg-ruWI4ES7tEHjXhOtLXKm5M22Jfg12wMuZaqY8hPSRqqA/s4032/View%20from%20Parco%20Naquane%20-%20east%20toward%20Concarena.jpg"><img alt="View from Parco Naquane - east toward Concarena" border="0" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBipgd-E76MGLDzCpn39CaTucbleqxiQmv_iuJZEAKh8kqTtyAz_PlIRglbToGsb2Kf35KsByZDK9jlXd72AaAxKMIdMKklWXzXHwLiKJCvePmnXL0-tA_-Il3xxcq7hWLeO3EYU_cWMhBg-ruWI4ES7tEHjXhOtLXKm5M22Jfg12wMuZaqY8hPSRqqA/w189-h142/View%20from%20Parco%20Naquane%20-%20east%20toward%20Concarena.jpg" title="View from Parco Naquane - east toward Concarena" width="189" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Top row: Rock carvings in Val Camonica, Italy: rock 50, rock 1 - warriors on horses, rock 35 - running priest, rock 50 - warrior.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Bottom row: View over Capo di Ponte toward Concarena peak. Entrance of the Naquane Park.<br /></b></span><br /><h3 id="overview" style="text-align: left;">Overview</h3><div><br /></div><div> We’ve been up and down this valley half a dozen times and never had the opportunity to stop until today to see the petroglyphs. The what!? The petroglyphs or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Drawings_in_Valcamonica">rock drawings of Valcamonica</a>, recognized by UNESCO in 1979. It was Italy’s first recognized site. <br /><br />All the rock drawings taken together represents rock carvings/art going back to the 8th-6th millennium BC. Pretty impressive.</div><div><br />Today, we stopped in just one of many parks in the region and spent a few hours. We are at Capo di Ponte, in the Province of Brescia, Italy. Specifically, we are just on the edge of the village and uphill in the <i>Parco nazionale delle incisioni rupestri di Naquane</i>. <br /><br />This park was created in 1955 by the Archaeological Superintendence of Lombardy, extends over 35 hectares on hills east of the Oglio river, ranging in altitude from 400 to 600 meters above sea-level. There are many paths within the park that allow you to get up close to the engravings. <div><br /></div>Some resources to help: <br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Ample parking here: <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/RNdLEJgd2DLeWpCLA">location</a>.</li><li><a href="https://www.google.it/maps/@46.0279146,10.3504417,3a,75y,190.76h,82.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6wLXRAvPpmd8I7w5wmQ0XA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656">Google Street View</a> of the site.</li><li>The park is ordered by “rocks”. Think of each rock like a huge canvas. (Who knows what other canvases lie beneath the moss and debris?)</li><li>Up close the “great” rock: <a href="http://www.europreart.net/NAQ1/">Naquane Great Rock, Valcamonica, virtual tour entry (europreart.net)</a></li><li>We spent about 1.5 hours here and didn’t see it all! (We only show a couple of the “rocks” here.) We had planned to see the nearby Rock art Natural reserve of Ceto, Cimbergo and Paspardo as well but a lunch appointment beckoned us to leave. We’ll be back!</li><li>If you are looking for a fun lunch spot, try <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/1cHFBsx29FBNZWP59">Osteria Concarena</a> in the cute village of Cerveno.</li></ul><div><br /></div>About Val Camonica: <br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Val Camonica one of the largest valleys of the central Alps, in eastern Lombardy, Italy. We travel up and down the valley going from Bergamo to Ponte di Legno / Passo del Tonale (for all sorts of <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2023/03/two-late-winter-hikes-near-ponte-di-legno-malga-valbiolo-val-cane.html">outdoor activities</a>). It’s a slightly less efficient timewise to get to Merano. (See <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2023/08/a-week-in-merano-italy-hiking.html">A Week in Merano, Italy – Hiking</a>.) Finally, if you haven’t seen the Presena glacier covered in summer to protect it, you don’t know what sad is. (See <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2023/08/presena-glacier-summer-visit-to-covered.html">Presena Glacier – A summer visit to the covered glacier</a>.)</li><li>Not only are the rock drawings inscribed in UNESCO, but the whole valley is also a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve. This valley is happening. Many of our “local” wines come from the valley.</li><li>Val Camonica is derived from the Latin <i>Vallis Camunnorum</i>, "Valley of the Camunni."</li><li>The Camuni or Camunni were an ancient population located in Val Camonica during the Iron Age (1st millennium BC); the Latin name Camunni was attributed to them by the authors of the 1st century.</li></ul><br /><h3 id="rock1" style="text-align: left;">Rock 1: The Great Rock </h3><div><br /></div>This rock has more than two thousand figures engraved over its surface; it is not easy to see them all, even less to remember them. The most ancient figures, very few, date back to the recent phases of the Neolithic, six thousand years ago. The great majority of the others were engraved during the end of the Bronze Age and above all (over 80%) throughout the Iron Age, during the 1st millennium BC.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzBCQESSHRdjYjIg8PbjjnqbXjBB48-BW_fMAryofV_updN7nv_qmMJNiyXP5SbqFeumAFsr7Q483gsgYUeemW0JTVM7o-CmyGmfJEnT6UhsWGL7wOfW4z7LuCfzAikI6XqqHnqTFHdt_l4PeOYDQdqOyoUS0M207ecWef7CBkRXuGLzheHHq1GWKoqg/s4080/Rock%201%20-%20animals%20and%20hunters.jpg"><img alt="Rock 1 - animals and hunters" border="0" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzBCQESSHRdjYjIg8PbjjnqbXjBB48-BW_fMAryofV_updN7nv_qmMJNiyXP5SbqFeumAFsr7Q483gsgYUeemW0JTVM7o-CmyGmfJEnT6UhsWGL7wOfW4z7LuCfzAikI6XqqHnqTFHdt_l4PeOYDQdqOyoUS0M207ecWef7CBkRXuGLzheHHq1GWKoqg/w185-h140/Rock%201%20-%20animals%20and%20hunters.jpg" title="Rock 1 - animals and hunters" width="185" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9T-CmZoxkU3JUd4rfibjQ3rhU3e-rfhNfG6101KKctFzhRUCMm3OlvsCnZIo_0jEztAFAQRO3mPmFxJomwSdupJg9XNH15uIZN2852hsOKr326EsI1XB6ppYV3ApfTn2jwpbmfU8ujzLsp36kh2F1CNdKKcn9bL1SAV0HM-5muz-1BWgfbfRhCYYXiA/s4080/Rock%201%20-%20Hunter%20with%20long%20spear.jpg"><img alt="Rock 1 - Hunter with long spear" border="0" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9T-CmZoxkU3JUd4rfibjQ3rhU3e-rfhNfG6101KKctFzhRUCMm3OlvsCnZIo_0jEztAFAQRO3mPmFxJomwSdupJg9XNH15uIZN2852hsOKr326EsI1XB6ppYV3ApfTn2jwpbmfU8ujzLsp36kh2F1CNdKKcn9bL1SAV0HM-5muz-1BWgfbfRhCYYXiA/w184-h139/Rock%201%20-%20Hunter%20with%20long%20spear.jpg" title="Rock 1 - Hunter with long spear" width="184" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOS-Ez21JBGHLY3gk3-vWFeh5AB_6m1nVlcQqcwAyMcZyKgE1aT8Z-JeQN00pn9SQH6vyuoLewdOUIRDk1XqcOeRVNWUnTnoc4mEX5CL6pE_H0BmEEZsAlCSyOF7vqV8Ftq-845nugrXVt7d5YxAvjq1674xRaVIO0_Z4bQYtLZtVVCsi2tfCzqavaTw/s4032/Rock%201%20-%20Sector%20I.jpg"><img alt="Rock 1 - Sector I" border="0" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOS-Ez21JBGHLY3gk3-vWFeh5AB_6m1nVlcQqcwAyMcZyKgE1aT8Z-JeQN00pn9SQH6vyuoLewdOUIRDk1XqcOeRVNWUnTnoc4mEX5CL6pE_H0BmEEZsAlCSyOF7vqV8Ftq-845nugrXVt7d5YxAvjq1674xRaVIO0_Z4bQYtLZtVVCsi2tfCzqavaTw/w185-h140/Rock%201%20-%20Sector%20I.jpg" title="Rock 1 - Sector I" width="185" /></a></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rock 1, the Great Rock in Parco Naquane, Val Camonica: animals and hunters (left), hunter with long spear (center), Sector I (right).</span></b><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkasxN3s_7EubkHzqv2D1ZMdHHkqIPgxOHtqyl060scDvhGF8OhZnOkxFXr2GcHjAcuFXMr0nKhkU3e21E08qkfcTouoLmcgbbqy49shgd8bcd_9C0e4yBQLYEA6oCiNnrHobKcVlylXfBbG6jh7J91MPSULTRhZBBX6Ia2BHtDnRN7miTtfDNK34nKg/s4032/Rock%201%20-%20Deer%20and%20mystery%20shovel.jpg"><img alt="Rock 1 - Deer and mystery shovel" border="0" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkasxN3s_7EubkHzqv2D1ZMdHHkqIPgxOHtqyl060scDvhGF8OhZnOkxFXr2GcHjAcuFXMr0nKhkU3e21E08qkfcTouoLmcgbbqy49shgd8bcd_9C0e4yBQLYEA6oCiNnrHobKcVlylXfBbG6jh7J91MPSULTRhZBBX6Ia2BHtDnRN7miTtfDNK34nKg/w129-h172/Rock%201%20-%20Deer%20and%20mystery%20shovel.jpg" title="Rock 1 - Deer and mystery shovel" width="129" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIZsVJhEfHkpY4Nb0JBAhnOOiJsjBVeByO5VkTmwJo16sW33a0U2QhkXlodSyeYcb_YuVE8bj76yxul5JnAiEvwVQrwQSaIJTgnu6GFOCq7jrOS7CIo94WX1QgwFhZ3_2lJCAJBjbqfzQcmzAmwLhziCNFFhHZvx1__d6HByAg6TDvdtnS89yZ9xJseg/s4032/Rock%201%20-%20labyrinth.jpg"><img alt="Rock 1 - labyrinth" border="0" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIZsVJhEfHkpY4Nb0JBAhnOOiJsjBVeByO5VkTmwJo16sW33a0U2QhkXlodSyeYcb_YuVE8bj76yxul5JnAiEvwVQrwQSaIJTgnu6GFOCq7jrOS7CIo94WX1QgwFhZ3_2lJCAJBjbqfzQcmzAmwLhziCNFFhHZvx1__d6HByAg6TDvdtnS89yZ9xJseg/w129-h172/Rock%201%20-%20labyrinth.jpg" title="Rock 1 - labyrinth" width="129" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrvN3hfPavBrLWwaxqbYwN9nW7CXrSQEjvLGwu14q-AR2iTNT2s1j2rEd8nu7UrO3-ic47i9Kc-_lH0s1QvlNRJWtPwCOZ9BnOK-8f9OYNUen7NjxP10JJktu8w-2jjHd3zyLs4x2RKhKy4YGLLIacEMLl9tIMCBfefPGlfTeysaPJ36ZJ13Z_tD601A/s4032/Rock%201%20-%20Sector%20G.jpg"><img alt="Rock 1 - Sector G" border="0" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrvN3hfPavBrLWwaxqbYwN9nW7CXrSQEjvLGwu14q-AR2iTNT2s1j2rEd8nu7UrO3-ic47i9Kc-_lH0s1QvlNRJWtPwCOZ9BnOK-8f9OYNUen7NjxP10JJktu8w-2jjHd3zyLs4x2RKhKy4YGLLIacEMLl9tIMCBfefPGlfTeysaPJ36ZJ13Z_tD601A/w129-h172/Rock%201%20-%20Sector%20G.jpg" title="Rock 1 - Sector G" width="129" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Rock 1: Deer and mystery shovel (left), labyrinth (center), Sector G (right).</b></span></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoP_jU44hmk-wbkpeuRcIZlYHFcwIynFf3NCQli2iShKvYfoiB-UAtw2YRYJMX4mcJV_T1-zZCJVlbwelNl5f9pwrgIabCnSZeruRf0jpcv6lslvw3cixsCQ78tDAbqBe2RbTOjq9aXShQ-ahLNN1afYbCk2xgo6vPJX170d4ZdgIn9yKTqAeKEWGAQQ/s4032/Rock%201%20-%20info%201.jpg"><img alt="Rock 1 - information board" border="0" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoP_jU44hmk-wbkpeuRcIZlYHFcwIynFf3NCQli2iShKvYfoiB-UAtw2YRYJMX4mcJV_T1-zZCJVlbwelNl5f9pwrgIabCnSZeruRf0jpcv6lslvw3cixsCQ78tDAbqBe2RbTOjq9aXShQ-ahLNN1afYbCk2xgo6vPJX170d4ZdgIn9yKTqAeKEWGAQQ/w129-h171/Rock%201%20-%20info%201.jpg" title="Rock 1 - information board" width="129" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp10bCE7_nIyAcqEZJVFHGA8apOFGyKUABwWXpQ0iyH6xsZVntaQ_WtgZ8vYVT25Nebhjw1yW71cjGuStYA4Ar6zYE5HeTrgV-LoGhAGXY_qWz8XF3dr6E-vaHOel-q97eXwi_zT7ThDP0ikS31PXYvmJTFKX_1CAYZEgAZVC2UKwCz8ebBDY9PxEE3Q/s4032/Rock%201%20-%20info%202.jpg"><img alt="Rock 1 - information board" border="0" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp10bCE7_nIyAcqEZJVFHGA8apOFGyKUABwWXpQ0iyH6xsZVntaQ_WtgZ8vYVT25Nebhjw1yW71cjGuStYA4Ar6zYE5HeTrgV-LoGhAGXY_qWz8XF3dr6E-vaHOel-q97eXwi_zT7ThDP0ikS31PXYvmJTFKX_1CAYZEgAZVC2UKwCz8ebBDY9PxEE3Q/w129-h172/Rock%201%20-%20info%202.jpg" title="Rock 1 - information board" width="129" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8b3DglfH5TyeBhOChf0azh9bN2zvE4c2ajrXEnuwGI8zcGZULqANUXr4K78Gs2RI2kvxx3_Y2gazRNieZvBHc9xqtZFPaDqMGPFbgND2JPO4S2A4_z9grPQZoOUMXUGlUyctUtJDs71eePoSAV8s6xeWjO97ya6assrLH2tGdx_BPY5ItUVqxyHlKtg/s4032/Rock%201%20-%20View%201.jpg"><img alt="Rock 1 - View from one side" border="0" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8b3DglfH5TyeBhOChf0azh9bN2zvE4c2ajrXEnuwGI8zcGZULqANUXr4K78Gs2RI2kvxx3_Y2gazRNieZvBHc9xqtZFPaDqMGPFbgND2JPO4S2A4_z9grPQZoOUMXUGlUyctUtJDs71eePoSAV8s6xeWjO97ya6assrLH2tGdx_BPY5ItUVqxyHlKtg/w129-h172/Rock%201%20-%20View%201.jpg" title="Rock 1 - View from one side" width="129" /></a></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rock 1 information boards and view of rock 1 and viewing boardwalk.<br /></span></b><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYhwzsoy9SUuRxAXYGM9wq739UyNS2whwqYRGUzxBXJdBy4R8G7OH2tz7dLGsnON3mh5DlRW8dtydnDTVxaFQpKlNtiTxvPmqVQ2ubomSabyr9UHRVbn4jL16BGwrWAhdYV24ZwXBzAx7ueLFOns1hRJQFqF6WXiWcaCmCzstnvhxBwkgUvUl4h-alLg/s4032/Rock%201%20-%20View%202.jpg"><img alt="Rock 1 - View from top" border="0" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYhwzsoy9SUuRxAXYGM9wq739UyNS2whwqYRGUzxBXJdBy4R8G7OH2tz7dLGsnON3mh5DlRW8dtydnDTVxaFQpKlNtiTxvPmqVQ2ubomSabyr9UHRVbn4jL16BGwrWAhdYV24ZwXBzAx7ueLFOns1hRJQFqF6WXiWcaCmCzstnvhxBwkgUvUl4h-alLg/w186-h140/Rock%201%20-%20View%202.jpg" title="Rock 1 - View from top" width="186" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVEY_9M1qYhI6Av-8ySfrNmTl7tPs_x9Z9MESvQV8QOceblEWyJs3oTh-m9eo-HFb6if-4DbqMPPzRfMnoZdeXfN2IiEPWr7XHi2TJhbsxkGzS2BbVLjtO9t7INvskTeT5DT91QAaACBRYbIU6Ezw9G0R6CHqKkrZcbPJQII2ytfdoOTZYm4Ymy0W5yA/s4032/Rock%201%20-%20view%20with%20cat.jpg"><img alt="Rock 1 - view with cat" border="0" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVEY_9M1qYhI6Av-8ySfrNmTl7tPs_x9Z9MESvQV8QOceblEWyJs3oTh-m9eo-HFb6if-4DbqMPPzRfMnoZdeXfN2IiEPWr7XHi2TJhbsxkGzS2BbVLjtO9t7INvskTeT5DT91QAaACBRYbIU6Ezw9G0R6CHqKkrZcbPJQII2ytfdoOTZYm4Ymy0W5yA/w187-h140/Rock%201%20-%20view%20with%20cat.jpg" title="Rock 1 - view with cat" width="187" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcj5N9BpH_xmQRtXTW54Gv3AVHgfn5ucDSm_0L-DJDs9w8Rhr_IP_cQDfvpZiPYh5Bh4_5eFWLCMcuUNhMbpAVetipJcZSoJZcrz6ybF4QSvWMRbTU3upXF0-tD9xWJjufDuLuyx3nmuc1RE7A-obCMES6XWaq4ZgjEp4uOsuMCwQfenJ2C3msrKnLzg/s4080/Rock%201%20-%20mysterious%20shovels.jpg"><img alt="Rock 1 - mysterious shovels" border="0" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcj5N9BpH_xmQRtXTW54Gv3AVHgfn5ucDSm_0L-DJDs9w8Rhr_IP_cQDfvpZiPYh5Bh4_5eFWLCMcuUNhMbpAVetipJcZSoJZcrz6ybF4QSvWMRbTU3upXF0-tD9xWJjufDuLuyx3nmuc1RE7A-obCMES6XWaq4ZgjEp4uOsuMCwQfenJ2C3msrKnLzg/w185-h140/Rock%201%20-%20mysterious%20shovels.jpg" title="Rock 1 - mysterious shovels" width="185" /></a></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Views of rock 1 in Parco Naquane, Val Camonia (left), with cat (center), with mystery shovel carvings (right).</span></b> <br /><br /><h3 id="rock23" style="text-align: left;">Rock 23: “Four-wheeled Wagon”</h3><div><br /></div>The wagon scene on rock 23 was carved with a double perspective: a depiction device commonly used in the ancient times to make all the parts of an object visible: the wagon itself is represented from above while the four radiant wheels and the two horses are seen from a lateral point of view.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZZ5BahSaDCtjcuzcmoXE_EGTZ2rxuqNec2HaJB4wIFnW1xsMTkOAvBW1wtqcuAGnATUV5391QYSZzYImXgPiPz5yFsfwApkGsHU3MRUmGlP0BjieYks7goYr7QXlSEmwEncdjFGSbdbuxkmiNpwN-fb4ZWWSb7vWRx1tM5wQyTaapd7m3RJiScpQOJg/s4080/Rock%2023%20-%20Four-wheeled%20wagon.jpg"><img alt="Rock 23 - Four-wheeled wagon" border="0" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZZ5BahSaDCtjcuzcmoXE_EGTZ2rxuqNec2HaJB4wIFnW1xsMTkOAvBW1wtqcuAGnATUV5391QYSZzYImXgPiPz5yFsfwApkGsHU3MRUmGlP0BjieYks7goYr7QXlSEmwEncdjFGSbdbuxkmiNpwN-fb4ZWWSb7vWRx1tM5wQyTaapd7m3RJiScpQOJg/w219-h165/Rock%2023%20-%20Four-wheeled%20wagon.jpg" title="Rock 23 - Four-wheeled wagon" width="219" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3_qdWCePDASEOtDnuhrACnlr8HJNJQHcpjFg4TNt8lPyhqDleE_fosqvz5YZLKzlfOngVhQ9Hs1NzJZtqntSvYNq9qM3bji54tPL52IQ1_6qTQ2GiQiI1D4ORkG2nZ01-3hF_wnNupgTrnbkoDMx-JtrnNwfuUJwR6Yvqmqf1vf866Wy-8LyPz4rG8g/s4032/Rock%2023%20-%20info.jpg"><img alt="Rock 23 - information board" border="0" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3_qdWCePDASEOtDnuhrACnlr8HJNJQHcpjFg4TNt8lPyhqDleE_fosqvz5YZLKzlfOngVhQ9Hs1NzJZtqntSvYNq9qM3bji54tPL52IQ1_6qTQ2GiQiI1D4ORkG2nZ01-3hF_wnNupgTrnbkoDMx-JtrnNwfuUJwR6Yvqmqf1vf866Wy-8LyPz4rG8g/w124-h165/Rock%2023%20-%20info.jpg" title="Rock 23 - information board" width="124" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Rock 23: wagon carving (left) and information board (right).</b></span></div><div><br /><h3 id="rock35" style="text-align: left;">Rock 35: “The Running Priest” and “Cammunian Village”.</h3></div><div><br /></div><div>The so-called "running priest" is lively figure that looks like it could have been done in our times. It is a male figure wearing a head gear with back bent feathers. The figure raises one of his arms while the other rests on his hip and his legs bent in a way that may suggest a running or a dance. This figure dates to the Iron Age.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0tvUAIaBET8M1EJikhtoKYnvpFzHSAANhRVlQb4XthyphenhyphenaVaiX9dCiviRgbdvtdNdOH9O6IN-alO0v0TfKrN2cEXfU9eS5j0eizhBkZ915D1oEUuUK6Svz-h7j641ocvqj-Q__rjxWwRYCT4jyt8FnOreB_qv5FL0840SNeVPtt-eRs2W-wN8NbVdb0zg/s4080/Rock%2035%20-%20Cammunian%20Village%20in%20the%20winter%20sun.jpg"><img alt="Rock 35 - Cammunian Village in the winter sun" border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0tvUAIaBET8M1EJikhtoKYnvpFzHSAANhRVlQb4XthyphenhyphenaVaiX9dCiviRgbdvtdNdOH9O6IN-alO0v0TfKrN2cEXfU9eS5j0eizhBkZ915D1oEUuUK6Svz-h7j641ocvqj-Q__rjxWwRYCT4jyt8FnOreB_qv5FL0840SNeVPtt-eRs2W-wN8NbVdb0zg/w189-h143/Rock%2035%20-%20Cammunian%20Village%20in%20the%20winter%20sun.jpg" title="Rock 35 - Cammunian Village in the winter sun" width="189" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixMEID9IHD3Hj97AZ431YljgcmHe9UhQmEyyHb0FQwSpPaBdlMlJcYhC5ETy-EVGnk0tabcXIImksVVRO-CzJVCodqQ7fKseQALHwENxidi-DBI_yrjPEC7bLxOBYHMoJpbhoi9RAAWUpi-mMoTvgMLXU1UJs-aJAJhHlz2coPFKU0gZammRAHhH_4SA/s4032/Rock%2035%20-%20The%20Cammunian%20Village.jpg"><img alt="Rock 35 - The Cammunian Village" border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixMEID9IHD3Hj97AZ431YljgcmHe9UhQmEyyHb0FQwSpPaBdlMlJcYhC5ETy-EVGnk0tabcXIImksVVRO-CzJVCodqQ7fKseQALHwENxidi-DBI_yrjPEC7bLxOBYHMoJpbhoi9RAAWUpi-mMoTvgMLXU1UJs-aJAJhHlz2coPFKU0gZammRAHhH_4SA/w190-h143/Rock%2035%20-%20The%20Cammunian%20Village.jpg" title="Rock 35 - The Cammunian Village" width="190" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN0vUwaF0yt3eFsNvvGgncujhMYSqe-pcBgDzi_roCQyTEUWM79tGQLRsO2znQKfUMYSDUQzk9wrSLPuZKUk8kl2fvYLi7FCNzKF_BS7eJAzXLh2dvlGxmbhS1t40BcYunDw4Lbm06aiR6ccA0pgD2VOql-JQ9heSfFOKtPkylHfbiG2tDAwA9ziEfdA/s4080/Rock%2035%20-%20The%20running%20priest%20(2).jpg"><img alt="Rock 35 - The running priest" border="0" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN0vUwaF0yt3eFsNvvGgncujhMYSqe-pcBgDzi_roCQyTEUWM79tGQLRsO2znQKfUMYSDUQzk9wrSLPuZKUk8kl2fvYLi7FCNzKF_BS7eJAzXLh2dvlGxmbhS1t40BcYunDw4Lbm06aiR6ccA0pgD2VOql-JQ9heSfFOKtPkylHfbiG2tDAwA9ziEfdA/w187-h141/Rock%2035%20-%20The%20running%20priest%20(2).jpg" title="Rock 35 - The running priest" width="187" /></a> </div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rock 35: Communian village (left and center) and running priest (right).</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6yooMSnQr5AkfvivrypyGABIlcR9eRdUTE-K9kkoapRbRedc1AuQrG58nSS7xK4XL0c9AltiB5Sgvtp5fSUR1T168fVMXiP25_d4ccsn2CohiN7qRXXdleJRc9mRFZv_lSA-YeJr4cUpcVRSmWzuu-8qJ0rlcH3wtV3jgRNKHO7egqSJVHhgOdrQ-7A/s3546/Rock%2035%20-%20View%20down%20the%20Val%20Camonica.jpg"><img alt="Rock 35 - View down the Val Camonica" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6yooMSnQr5AkfvivrypyGABIlcR9eRdUTE-K9kkoapRbRedc1AuQrG58nSS7xK4XL0c9AltiB5Sgvtp5fSUR1T168fVMXiP25_d4ccsn2CohiN7qRXXdleJRc9mRFZv_lSA-YeJr4cUpcVRSmWzuu-8qJ0rlcH3wtV3jgRNKHO7egqSJVHhgOdrQ-7A/w200-h150/Rock%2035%20-%20View%20down%20the%20Val%20Camonica.jpg" title="Rock 35 - View down the Val Camonica" width="200" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipv7sLe3pHe6Cie_GX4lrJlhLALovG1wuFwLLlaRirwA5nLhoNUDkappcyJfaVXMnRVQaKTh4fnGK8158ey3loqGxrotUp_8Q4ioFvURT3vT-7G9rLzkr1UIHcBSiJUiypi4f6tkRV1h4oz7xftYQ1ACEqjdjmMkydsHONJuwBc508p79IKJGmLqj7uQ/s4032/Rock%2035%20-%20info.jpg"><img alt="Rock 35 - information board" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipv7sLe3pHe6Cie_GX4lrJlhLALovG1wuFwLLlaRirwA5nLhoNUDkappcyJfaVXMnRVQaKTh4fnGK8158ey3loqGxrotUp_8Q4ioFvURT3vT-7G9rLzkr1UIHcBSiJUiypi4f6tkRV1h4oz7xftYQ1ACEqjdjmMkydsHONJuwBc508p79IKJGmLqj7uQ/w113-h150/Rock%2035%20-%20info.jpg" title="Rock 35 - information board" width="113" /></a></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: boardwalk around rock 35 and view south down Val Camonica (left) and information board (right).</span></b></div><div><h3 id="rock44">Rock 44: Halberd-Axes</h3><br />We didn’t find them, but include a photo from that rock.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXG5oShu4XwrpWN024sciCi21goUcgO-AFEzpZisjtKc4pVprMSNiXojEJApnXRI1iEVBMt2LQteQ6M08UvyfOTb525QjNr2yjKEmppZ0YQptGvHtwP3NfBmwVkagyvtytnGGi2IUHGAh7AQ1jqjpKlxZH033ttw2HoU7u54RPkg5ojJ4XTUAHrtaIGw/s4032/Rock%2044%20-%20info.jpg"><img alt="Rock 44 - information board" border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXG5oShu4XwrpWN024sciCi21goUcgO-AFEzpZisjtKc4pVprMSNiXojEJApnXRI1iEVBMt2LQteQ6M08UvyfOTb525QjNr2yjKEmppZ0YQptGvHtwP3NfBmwVkagyvtytnGGi2IUHGAh7AQ1jqjpKlxZH033ttw2HoU7u54RPkg5ojJ4XTUAHrtaIGw/w138-h184/Rock%2044%20-%20info.jpg" title="Rock 44 - information board" width="138" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh45n9GN-Qrw0k3xPrbY1LVgajsB-sSJq5X7s34DHVdZOdQWuNEsEO2RPYHlay_U7WqGXyVFXAEdjQw80Kx9BUEg1EXzwQm_M67NBKXzbNXVrfRmlmv9haCqbsQhIE48HVehranILZHrtrzZ_8fO9K9pkGWKvd7OjStu0e8o2Q8Ri5evkSwViXIq8fDkA/s4032/Rock%2044%20-%20petroglyphs.jpg"><img alt="Rock 44 - petroglyphs - rock carvings" border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh45n9GN-Qrw0k3xPrbY1LVgajsB-sSJq5X7s34DHVdZOdQWuNEsEO2RPYHlay_U7WqGXyVFXAEdjQw80Kx9BUEg1EXzwQm_M67NBKXzbNXVrfRmlmv9haCqbsQhIE48HVehranILZHrtrzZ_8fO9K9pkGWKvd7OjStu0e8o2Q8Ri5evkSwViXIq8fDkA/w138-h184/Rock%2044%20-%20petroglyphs.jpg" title="Rock 44 - petroglyphs - rock carvings" width="138" /></a></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rock 44: Information board and carvings.</span></b></div><div><br /><br /></div><div><h3 id="rock50">Rock 50: Prayers, knights, "the big warrior", inscriptions.</h3><div><br /></div>The first rock you come upon after entering the park. Depending on the light, you might not think there is anything there but look carefully to see looms, labyrinth, and the mysterious shovels.<br /><br />The shovel engravings, whose first appearance dates back to the Middle-Late Bronze Age (16th-13th centuries BC), have been object of several interpretations, Among the most interesting ones it is worth mentioning the resemblance with razors discovered among grave goods in cremation burials, which is also associated with the habit of collecting the ashes of the departed. Bronze shovels have been also found in women graves both of the Golasecca Celts and of the palaeo-Venetic regions, where they are supposed to be linked to domestic activities. Finally, we must indicate the votive function of shovel groups, interpreted as symbolic representations of votive offerings. Therefore, the shovel in Valle Camonica rock art seems to have both a male and female value, and also suggests a different use of the object according to the figurative context where it is placed.</div><div></div><div> <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsRO1LoRbbaDGLuqPUnbp7SsGgJX2TSdspcIcss7Yr9B8Yw1WlM-QsS1lipt5WMg9eEnKss7vApPG0InKEzFhnDB6IeWGvLdagdVeV7c9P8_JPFlncPDJAEYc4f1QGjlei_5wOzE-copVthvFTCkxjtTDQNCJfkv7A91sVGaefV22TQgw56XytV5kh-A/s4080/Rock%2050%20-%20Big%20Warrior.jpg"><img alt="Rock 50 - Big Warrior" border="0" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsRO1LoRbbaDGLuqPUnbp7SsGgJX2TSdspcIcss7Yr9B8Yw1WlM-QsS1lipt5WMg9eEnKss7vApPG0InKEzFhnDB6IeWGvLdagdVeV7c9P8_JPFlncPDJAEYc4f1QGjlei_5wOzE-copVthvFTCkxjtTDQNCJfkv7A91sVGaefV22TQgw56XytV5kh-A/w200-h151/Rock%2050%20-%20Big%20Warrior.jpg" title="Rock 50 - Big Warrior" width="200" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge-XiHcZMo98oubkEk0tokvUpIVbqrpXMoaeeE2A3mDXz0cpNsCIHYyFT50RUvOXZAHjlPT5rPr3nX81BA9I7Ro4HvcAkbvsnXqiq0uda9azm5FUtwdI4OenTn5qeqGugiLs8nP7G5Gqg9hDJO333n4e6af6Z-otMpwuX5XuTCrYcrMHn0Jfgm6ySMXA/s4032/Rock%2050%20-%20prayers.jpg"><img alt="Rock 50 - prayers" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge-XiHcZMo98oubkEk0tokvUpIVbqrpXMoaeeE2A3mDXz0cpNsCIHYyFT50RUvOXZAHjlPT5rPr3nX81BA9I7Ro4HvcAkbvsnXqiq0uda9azm5FUtwdI4OenTn5qeqGugiLs8nP7G5Gqg9hDJO333n4e6af6Z-otMpwuX5XuTCrYcrMHn0Jfgm6ySMXA/w200-h150/Rock%2050%20-%20prayers.jpg" title="Rock 50 - prayers" width="200" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2qwieDIc9NqJor17eWk3u6tNAK0Az7LAQEvuL0fdIh8BLHtSVAlHR7NUSXlV75FGThNxks_xbxBdqMSq7a400THYg62cd2F0Y-kdG8T73xBVwP1OUZY7gLlGVHJIHRs1p6fvVUpknIclZ_3epkiWSg6RgKRRcf6iuTSeH6AYXJPWIpoYb7XTEyvtavA/s4032/Rock%2050%20-%20view%201.jpg"><img alt="Rock 50 - viewing boardwalk" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2qwieDIc9NqJor17eWk3u6tNAK0Az7LAQEvuL0fdIh8BLHtSVAlHR7NUSXlV75FGThNxks_xbxBdqMSq7a400THYg62cd2F0Y-kdG8T73xBVwP1OUZY7gLlGVHJIHRs1p6fvVUpknIclZ_3epkiWSg6RgKRRcf6iuTSeH6AYXJPWIpoYb7XTEyvtavA/w200-h150/Rock%2050%20-%20view%201.jpg" title="Rock 50 - viewing boardwalk" width="200" /></a></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rock 50: Big warrior (left), prayers (center), boardwalk around rock (right).</span></b></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVZrXaDZFRTHmSvn9UvViD4JNytvIbSMbUweghQmcqh0IWROR2nx6NfrVWWCQjlZPP3ChbjSpUI8tUlCHFOAGezpG-NQrtIN_YFMQ0OV6V1ipnxZb659eeiVJQXoA1VqFT8hgIhlMgsmMwJtepJA4jutQAgoyjtswBBGcOCQG9r1n5jofoxA0AeMGBpQ/s4080/Rock%2050%20-%20slanting%20light.jpg"><img alt="Rock 50 - slanting light" border="0" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVZrXaDZFRTHmSvn9UvViD4JNytvIbSMbUweghQmcqh0IWROR2nx6NfrVWWCQjlZPP3ChbjSpUI8tUlCHFOAGezpG-NQrtIN_YFMQ0OV6V1ipnxZb659eeiVJQXoA1VqFT8hgIhlMgsmMwJtepJA4jutQAgoyjtswBBGcOCQG9r1n5jofoxA0AeMGBpQ/w200-h151/Rock%2050%20-%20slanting%20light.jpg" title="Rock 50 - slanting light" width="200" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtFHKDnNN_-tWXMLYnGElPZLEyB9uGHwAvZlb0vZq7Gelj3KPUw-OCN_4hYnmuRwqhRrY_4fSvo3U4vJ_y_tH79IpMNuNnrNZbatqQDomNqSohGtt45OPpRo8DT-TDJJB71QbWzKbsi1mOtsnX8Oti3xloFeomHuoYx0CdlZM78Cc08zzUM9ZTHwbzEQ/s4032/Rock%2050%20-%20view%202.jpg"><img alt="Rock 50 - viewing boardwalk" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtFHKDnNN_-tWXMLYnGElPZLEyB9uGHwAvZlb0vZq7Gelj3KPUw-OCN_4hYnmuRwqhRrY_4fSvo3U4vJ_y_tH79IpMNuNnrNZbatqQDomNqSohGtt45OPpRo8DT-TDJJB71QbWzKbsi1mOtsnX8Oti3xloFeomHuoYx0CdlZM78Cc08zzUM9ZTHwbzEQ/w200-h150/Rock%2050%20-%20view%202.jpg" title="Rock 50 - viewing boardwalk" width="200" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3PuS5I8YgkKGbUX41WMOeuZxHX5hnGTjCFKvz1YiktMcNwhsU1GDlF0Bvw1n2cB-noXWgVzkxour1FIvMQl8t4jYBdslOllOxQeDJ0k_DWhuIOrFYxxjYkqgpgAShIpjCrjmGiTDPE7ycbT4J6h8AzproHiVP-ndbB6Q470YBnQ5pkO4tBI7bxGfvgQ/s4032/Rock%2050%20-%20View%203.jpg"><img alt="Rock 50 - View of surface" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3PuS5I8YgkKGbUX41WMOeuZxHX5hnGTjCFKvz1YiktMcNwhsU1GDlF0Bvw1n2cB-noXWgVzkxour1FIvMQl8t4jYBdslOllOxQeDJ0k_DWhuIOrFYxxjYkqgpgAShIpjCrjmGiTDPE7ycbT4J6h8AzproHiVP-ndbB6Q470YBnQ5pkO4tBI7bxGfvgQ/w200-h150/Rock%2050%20-%20View%203.jpg" title="Rock 50 - View of surface" width="200" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Rock 50: Winter light on rock carvings (left), viewing platform (center), fractured surface (right).<br /></b></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZNI3Pj-j-0N0jRYDQtpLDRCPXWwXCdhw-1OspweTwE2GJeFhdqTVZpiPEOvZOWV-moNXvGi1c8qtg5AWagwk6aTTIBItXGftoyBu2CANGfOCv4HRTk9Lw9srkof4OWZzlyuiw-XSaDoggyOgJW_W2f3dBwg7h3eMNsAsXXkDx269IMu2IoeFWHDc-aQ/s4032/Rock%2050%20-%20warriors.jpg"><img alt="Rock 50 - warriors" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZNI3Pj-j-0N0jRYDQtpLDRCPXWwXCdhw-1OspweTwE2GJeFhdqTVZpiPEOvZOWV-moNXvGi1c8qtg5AWagwk6aTTIBItXGftoyBu2CANGfOCv4HRTk9Lw9srkof4OWZzlyuiw-XSaDoggyOgJW_W2f3dBwg7h3eMNsAsXXkDx269IMu2IoeFWHDc-aQ/w150-h200/Rock%2050%20-%20warriors.jpg" title="Rock 50 - warriors" width="150" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheklLriDXVU1rLbJ8VPXUcrd1vg7f0mHnUobAgNqY8RF_x7ul4YE-vL1wMwg6m330r03ToGmoH-FnqSMubTzmWt-1nLXCN-qgS3Vo65aSTcGNqvkKwJFMGaOP8jVshRMwePHdj0xH8HvX1cVxTY6hQNC6GytpjHgRnC_HjzDrm9y1nCx-7Y4noOEt72A/s4080/Rock%2050%20-%20prayers%20(2).jpg"><img alt="Rock 50 - prayers" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheklLriDXVU1rLbJ8VPXUcrd1vg7f0mHnUobAgNqY8RF_x7ul4YE-vL1wMwg6m330r03ToGmoH-FnqSMubTzmWt-1nLXCN-qgS3Vo65aSTcGNqvkKwJFMGaOP8jVshRMwePHdj0xH8HvX1cVxTY6hQNC6GytpjHgRnC_HjzDrm9y1nCx-7Y4noOEt72A/w151-h200/Rock%2050%20-%20prayers%20(2).jpg" title="Rock 50 - prayers" width="151" /></a> </div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rock 50: warriors (left) and prayers (right).</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLVkriTR6Ij0A2yREbAhKy1TbwZ3dSvwbdSxajcyW4DAwKXmzI3od1KR1ehzXTzxb0L4lEj5ZXYFLYNxztd2lGy1yF0fGVPLi3Kh3u7XZfo31blKwBZRWSr0sSBZcM5ZxFcepr2s6VdOUzXVZYNvPTB96lFMxM8SkG7fkOgLr0_QuMxwhFSXmcs1VIgg/s4032/Rock%2050%20-%20info%202.jpg"><img alt="Rock 50 - information board" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLVkriTR6Ij0A2yREbAhKy1TbwZ3dSvwbdSxajcyW4DAwKXmzI3od1KR1ehzXTzxb0L4lEj5ZXYFLYNxztd2lGy1yF0fGVPLi3Kh3u7XZfo31blKwBZRWSr0sSBZcM5ZxFcepr2s6VdOUzXVZYNvPTB96lFMxM8SkG7fkOgLr0_QuMxwhFSXmcs1VIgg/w150-h200/Rock%2050%20-%20info%202.jpg" title="Rock 50 - information board" width="150" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtgRknRfp0d1ZRBC2oj-M_L9W8NYlBBfhPeJaUZXzlCiYiQQfh7b46VI81B0K1aj-qPCHen_-Q4h2jGQ91whHsu_wU6oasO3gTdtmxNiaoGiRK4uIlwV8VjSYAc4HgoYag3bfNmIWvekGMfrg7gk4PMo0WH3IZ2D622AKqVF_3gMt8vYtLDO4EcAlGJQ/s4032/Rock%2050%20-%20Info%203.jpg"><img alt="Rock 50 - information board" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtgRknRfp0d1ZRBC2oj-M_L9W8NYlBBfhPeJaUZXzlCiYiQQfh7b46VI81B0K1aj-qPCHen_-Q4h2jGQ91whHsu_wU6oasO3gTdtmxNiaoGiRK4uIlwV8VjSYAc4HgoYag3bfNmIWvekGMfrg7gk4PMo0WH3IZ2D622AKqVF_3gMt8vYtLDO4EcAlGJQ/w150-h200/Rock%2050%20-%20Info%203.jpg" title="Rock 50 - information board" width="150" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgInqgWeMDEivUJQYXyHXm-mJQAa7eUF2vzjg8JO1WsHSc0c9F7SX5e_HJQKA4OUzS6Dycrywz_FzEdo1S5v6yj9BRR8f-8A9uS0yHUmoEEntnsmHvur0clMKEPmUTGf7Z-41Pk6iqAL2zjzr1kg84J8A_4rtxYgolcmgR3iaNH08xJTELIXWC__E2avw/s4032/Rock%2050%20-%20info.jpg"><img alt="Rock 50 - information board" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgInqgWeMDEivUJQYXyHXm-mJQAa7eUF2vzjg8JO1WsHSc0c9F7SX5e_HJQKA4OUzS6Dycrywz_FzEdo1S5v6yj9BRR8f-8A9uS0yHUmoEEntnsmHvur0clMKEPmUTGf7Z-41Pk6iqAL2zjzr1kg84J8A_4rtxYgolcmgR3iaNH08xJTELIXWC__E2avw/w150-h200/Rock%2050%20-%20info.jpg" title="Rock 50 - information board" width="150" /></a><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rock 50: information boards.</span></b></div><div><br /></div><h3 id="park" style="text-align: left;">General Park photos</h3><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPmXh69xtEHz2E3ySvIQfljSqSdKwCuvEQEZOzjXKxMbwdzalCj7-PaE_v4NHj9EsPB7Be757I-LVSwMQYre5yrMqTro0Nz5_jfvZetx7NSdC2A6j8YRobOekQp3IoDVrKb_yVaE71asE5JPtyHYhrWSCYTPMBtEbCm8LHwSqC5K556oezeasUsk818Q/s4032/Naquane%20Park%20-%20path%20leading%20to%20entrance.jpg"><img alt="Naquane Park - path leading to entrance" border="0" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPmXh69xtEHz2E3ySvIQfljSqSdKwCuvEQEZOzjXKxMbwdzalCj7-PaE_v4NHj9EsPB7Be757I-LVSwMQYre5yrMqTro0Nz5_jfvZetx7NSdC2A6j8YRobOekQp3IoDVrKb_yVaE71asE5JPtyHYhrWSCYTPMBtEbCm8LHwSqC5K556oezeasUsk818Q/w122-h162/Naquane%20Park%20-%20path%20leading%20to%20entrance.jpg" title="Naquane Park - path leading to entrance" width="122" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYOZQFK-lr6f0pdTuEdf5scNNZcRGdpGOnSEwLQtLMJRjLqHI3FNDf0uEHRDqunlwBh_yzHtEC-BGlj8CkSF0mA80RHPOwOJZMh6hEDhBt8nvmqSTYhlPdcRqMyVUYiGBuLqGfMttwmECkSef9DzLByzriptB8c2fb3fwXqZJSIO5c7zWKMI1ugOqGug/s4032/Parco%20Naquane%20-%20path.jpg"><img alt="Parco Naquane - path" border="0" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYOZQFK-lr6f0pdTuEdf5scNNZcRGdpGOnSEwLQtLMJRjLqHI3FNDf0uEHRDqunlwBh_yzHtEC-BGlj8CkSF0mA80RHPOwOJZMh6hEDhBt8nvmqSTYhlPdcRqMyVUYiGBuLqGfMttwmECkSef9DzLByzriptB8c2fb3fwXqZJSIO5c7zWKMI1ugOqGug/w122-h163/Parco%20Naquane%20-%20path.jpg" title="Parco Naquane - path" width="122" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPZaNoiOmlB51Ccm4F5bu5qrK5uPhYA_K3hVhY8jX1hXPVTKL_K51CqLOs18nvT2mQpUPZJQiKSXDIiMB3mXOWLO8JS7UhdI6KaIodvqWWXQw02zP62a4fMH9_yqSLR68U_GkN7NBjvtG0pZkGOKOLzhxLVB4DwedgGDja4sCnem6V3ngUy3wPmdMlgw/s4032/Parco%20Naquane%20-%20info.jpg"><img alt="Parco Naquane - info" border="0" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPZaNoiOmlB51Ccm4F5bu5qrK5uPhYA_K3hVhY8jX1hXPVTKL_K51CqLOs18nvT2mQpUPZJQiKSXDIiMB3mXOWLO8JS7UhdI6KaIodvqWWXQw02zP62a4fMH9_yqSLR68U_GkN7NBjvtG0pZkGOKOLzhxLVB4DwedgGDja4sCnem6V3ngUy3wPmdMlgw/w123-h163/Parco%20Naquane%20-%20info.jpg" title="Parco Naquane - info" width="123" /></a></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Entrance to the park (left and center) and history of park (right).</span></b></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEircWqzDkte2p3JjvZLvBkjeJ4v9uiM2dRM8l668de8DqiwgDDK2h2Al3gRRuqmL7UePzT9ztqK_JAO0ocYGFqX5ITA5A0BcUqgfqiQRGiemW_2gvfIC1fe_dRqMm0yiO4OtJgEs1X_5AwnIndZjJY5AyI212n7EAvVF1CSD8GTLBN7eaSQXON6DGWXbQ/s4080/Parco%20Naquane%20-%20along%20one%20of%20the%20entrances%20to%20the%20park.jpg"><img alt="Parco Naquane - along one of the entrances to the park" border="0" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEircWqzDkte2p3JjvZLvBkjeJ4v9uiM2dRM8l668de8DqiwgDDK2h2Al3gRRuqmL7UePzT9ztqK_JAO0ocYGFqX5ITA5A0BcUqgfqiQRGiemW_2gvfIC1fe_dRqMm0yiO4OtJgEs1X_5AwnIndZjJY5AyI212n7EAvVF1CSD8GTLBN7eaSQXON6DGWXbQ/w171-h129/Parco%20Naquane%20-%20along%20one%20of%20the%20entrances%20to%20the%20park.jpg" title="Parco Naquane - along one of the entrances to the park" width="171" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaB4D3hcOk9T_5pDB5xT6kjX5EhhyvzmgTX8icU2VNfYlwnXQjDnKXgaGnLjcJxWkIOF8h33kUWXsCjhUdnxOivddksqfdvZRg76QtmFYghfWaquiy_GzUUJYpNF7Zzmx9vFhhs_5gOubfpjebGXnAdL41UVuKnfxFzenGTEqv8uLi02C198aINpZNpg/s4032/Parco%20Naquane%20-%20petroglyphs%20and%20moss.jpg"><img alt="Parco Naquane - petroglyphs and moss" border="0" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaB4D3hcOk9T_5pDB5xT6kjX5EhhyvzmgTX8icU2VNfYlwnXQjDnKXgaGnLjcJxWkIOF8h33kUWXsCjhUdnxOivddksqfdvZRg76QtmFYghfWaquiy_GzUUJYpNF7Zzmx9vFhhs_5gOubfpjebGXnAdL41UVuKnfxFzenGTEqv8uLi02C198aINpZNpg/w174-h130/Parco%20Naquane%20-%20petroglyphs%20and%20moss.jpg" title="Parco Naquane - petroglyphs and moss" width="174" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikEVVVkpQKIU0D0mnxq94h-txo02eDBAoFaLwF_BJ1xgmwywf_M_ZxM6FlUWkmbyaG8Q7EeHYN_tjFIV03P0axpRw-x9wKBw_fxwJ-2RaHpO4u-RUBQaVX6gVjSvlHe-xkyREcBdV01rYpH4hsYv9ziGNeLrpof0u5QEUIQ4p4Hc1DSA2aBMVUHHE3sw/s4080/Parco%20Naquane%20-%20Concarena%20Mountain.jpg"><img alt="Parco Naquane - Concarena Mountain" border="0" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikEVVVkpQKIU0D0mnxq94h-txo02eDBAoFaLwF_BJ1xgmwywf_M_ZxM6FlUWkmbyaG8Q7EeHYN_tjFIV03P0axpRw-x9wKBw_fxwJ-2RaHpO4u-RUBQaVX6gVjSvlHe-xkyREcBdV01rYpH4hsYv9ziGNeLrpof0u5QEUIQ4p4Hc1DSA2aBMVUHHE3sw/w171-h129/Parco%20Naquane%20-%20Concarena%20Mountain.jpg" title="Parco Naquane - Concarena Mountain" width="171" /></a></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">House on the climb to the park (left), moss and rock carving (center), view over Val Camonica from the park (right).<br /></span></b><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div></div>TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com029H4+87 Cimbergo, Province of Brescia, Italy46.0283459 10.355687146.025366273732146 10.351395565576173 46.03132552626785 10.359978634423829tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-36955820667709589532024-01-08T12:13:00.008+01:002024-01-08T12:17:31.625+01:00Travelmarx Music Picks - Winter 2024 - Harbor Mind<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN9p2EWhKH0OSGlXUuECerErhEGaW4VKgAiX5V6VhSPdIyy4fwz-6-uWg9_dByyrt-60EOT54_mb4OQIfTBvlElGcr_01twe7cyM0m8Go1T6CeyIfDbw388rDReVWLingVjZJ7wQDeg88cuplFjnDg2hOYIg6IezHNunhMmNjRgxYFQ17vkhErL_yu3A/s1252/TM%20Playlist%20Winter%202023%20-%20mosaic%20of%2025%20album%20covers.png"><img alt="Composite image of 25 albums featured in the Travelmarx Winter 2024 playlist." border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN9p2EWhKH0OSGlXUuECerErhEGaW4VKgAiX5V6VhSPdIyy4fwz-6-uWg9_dByyrt-60EOT54_mb4OQIfTBvlElGcr_01twe7cyM0m8Go1T6CeyIfDbw388rDReVWLingVjZJ7wQDeg88cuplFjnDg2hOYIg6IezHNunhMmNjRgxYFQ17vkhErL_yu3A/w319-h320/TM%20Playlist%20Winter%202023%20-%20mosaic%20of%2025%20album%20covers.png" title="Composite image of 25 albums featured in the Travelmarx Winter 2024 playlist." width="319" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Composite image of 25 albums featured in the Travelmarx Winter 2024 <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1EPfqFMcTOgTNVtjiNQ1VY?si=1aee1f4096794561">playlist</a>.</span><br /><br /> Our first post of the new year and it’s a playlist (<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1EPfqFMcTOgTNVtjiNQ1VY?si=1aee1f4096794561">Spotify link</a>). Some thoughts about this playlist: <br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Melody Nelson appears in two songs, the 13th Ward Social Club’s “Melody Nelson”, and Mick Harvey’s “Melody Nelson”. The name refers to the concept album “Histoire de Melody Nelson”, by French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. Released in 1971, the album’s story follows the romance between the middle-aged narrator and a 15-year-old girl named Melody Nelson.</li><li>The track "Social Roll” is from the second album “Social Limbo” from the Italian group Opez. (Really loving their music and they are Italian!) The album is a collection of eleven dreamy and haunting acoustic instruments. We like the idea of “Social Roll” as when you dive into the world of social media, you get rolled (taken advantage of). That’s our interpretation, not Opez’s.</li><li>The harbor mind.</li><ul><li>This term describes a mindset or way of thinking that is influenced by the rhythms and transience of coastal life. This concept is often associated with the early Greeks, who lived near the sea.</li><li>While this theme doesn’t appear directly in the playlist, it influenced us when selecting the tracks. Specifically, we had just finished the book “How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks” by Adam Nicolson where one of the central ideas is the harbor mind.</li><li>In October, we had a chance to visit of the cities (Miletus, Priene, Ephesus) that are discussed in Nicolson’s book. (See <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2023/11/18-days-in-turkey-some-observations.html">18 Days in Turkey</a>, <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2023/11/postcards-from-istanbul.html">Postcards from Istanbul</a>, <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2023/11/lets-do-pamukkale.html">Let’s Do the Pamukkale</a>).</li></ul><li>What an emotional ode to Kate Bush by Pone. We include the track "Breathing - ICU". <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/14/pone-paralysed-producer-making-music-with-his-eyes">Read more</a>.</li></ul><br />13th Ward Social Club - "Melody Nelson"<br />Assaf Spector - Gitkin - "The Last Chuck"<br />Aze - "Sudoku"<br />BALTHVS - "All is One"<br />Benjamin Clementine – "Difference"<br /><br />Beth Gibbons Rustin Man - "Romance"<br />Emiliana Torrini The Colorist Orchestra - "Racing the Storm"<br />Fabio Viscogliosi - "Camera"<br />Harry Paradise - "Slow Walk Mango Promenade"<br />Howe Gelb - "Running Behind"<br /><br />Jay-Jay Johanson - "Cheetah"<br />Jeb Loy Nichols - "Big Trouble Comes in Through a Small Door"<br />Kid Local - "A Grand Love Theme"<br />Mick Harvey - "The Ballad of Melody Nelson"<br />Mieke Miami - "Cry Baby Cry"<br /><br />Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Breathless"<br />Nicolas Godin - "Team Vulcan"<br />Opez - "Social Roll"<br />Pone - "Breathing - ICU"<br />Quantic Alice Russell - "Travelling Song"<br /><br />Spain - "Before It All Went Wrong"<br />The Good The Bad and The Queen - "History Song"<br />The Handsome Family - "Far from Any Road"<br />The Movers - "Give Five or More"<br />The Walkmen - "Red Moon"<div><br /></div>TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com0Seattle, WA, USA47.6061389 -122.332848119.295905063821152 -157.4890981 75.916372736178843 -87.1765981tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-51256391191758431422023-12-19T19:37:00.004+01:002023-12-19T19:47:46.581+01:00Rules for Blogging - Gathered from 16 Years of Experience<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2tSmtZIMk23pb2Clxshwe6pG9gYur11qvFcL6qx3iJRg6Fz6Jg9lig8224DpZE661eOLTe9BykN3oqPAZvKGVq6dK2qAmsGGTFspasTLTj6qLnfAX-AjwFug3oSd7iALEFShNySrdJ35MA9x-PTtT2-s8_WE2aNWQqvu-6pEh2rOw0_8NLci1Si1BOA/s1024/AI%20generated%20images%20about%20blogging%20-%20Designer%20(7).jpeg"><img alt="AI generated images about blogging - Designer" border="0" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2tSmtZIMk23pb2Clxshwe6pG9gYur11qvFcL6qx3iJRg6Fz6Jg9lig8224DpZE661eOLTe9BykN3oqPAZvKGVq6dK2qAmsGGTFspasTLTj6qLnfAX-AjwFug3oSd7iALEFShNySrdJ35MA9x-PTtT2-s8_WE2aNWQqvu-6pEh2rOw0_8NLci1Si1BOA/w187-h187/AI%20generated%20images%20about%20blogging%20-%20Designer%20(7).jpeg" title="AI generated images about blogging - Designer" width="187" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjux21h_AV3_RDmrMqc0pODlRtQjbGQCBuVdZsncj6quTtQxknRA6dA-dZVyDN6_P_mdj-JygmhZP9_oV8tz4Q1f_-ydH1Nw-KIEuBtGYo0OkgPjZtWvUnrNbn8UpApu4okuEswUArUdoaagqHRJ7kNCVSvGp0TxQffVwfTF_FTAvFT2vPh7YrjcMbvIg/s1024/AI%20generated%20images%20about%20blogging%20-%20Designer%20(1).jpeg"><img alt="AI generated images about blogging - Designer" border="0" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjux21h_AV3_RDmrMqc0pODlRtQjbGQCBuVdZsncj6quTtQxknRA6dA-dZVyDN6_P_mdj-JygmhZP9_oV8tz4Q1f_-ydH1Nw-KIEuBtGYo0OkgPjZtWvUnrNbn8UpApu4okuEswUArUdoaagqHRJ7kNCVSvGp0TxQffVwfTF_FTAvFT2vPh7YrjcMbvIg/w188-h188/AI%20generated%20images%20about%20blogging%20-%20Designer%20(1).jpeg" title="AI generated images about blogging - Designer" width="188" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPo_VtWgI6QMA4WSBzZ-MJMt8fFQUSjGbDrjWJGMPAqS1ko_euOi1Fb-g8iGG5QvIghrroKwd86WnBZV_eje2aoEI68CrS9dPrPz7ZZ77wz4B7XdxfYjwpBYHPD0swiUEEBRMG1rJM9scLCVTicB2Y5_zNc-QA_SZ49X41HBJhw-WxGGGYZJuuMXLTqA/s1024/AI%20generated%20images%20about%20blogging%20-%20Designer%20(4).jpeg"><img alt="AI generated images about blogging - Designer" border="0" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPo_VtWgI6QMA4WSBzZ-MJMt8fFQUSjGbDrjWJGMPAqS1ko_euOi1Fb-g8iGG5QvIghrroKwd86WnBZV_eje2aoEI68CrS9dPrPz7ZZ77wz4B7XdxfYjwpBYHPD0swiUEEBRMG1rJM9scLCVTicB2Y5_zNc-QA_SZ49X41HBJhw-WxGGGYZJuuMXLTqA/w188-h188/AI%20generated%20images%20about%20blogging%20-%20Designer%20(4).jpeg" title="AI generated images about blogging - Designer" width="188" /></a> </div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>AI images about blogging (<a href="https://designer.microsoft.com/image-creator">source</a>).<br /></b></span><br />The following are principles that have guided us in blogging for the last 16 years. We didn't start off with a set of principles in mind, rather, they developed in time. Take what guidance you want from them or in the least get inspired to come up with your own. (You can read “blog” here as “write” in whatever format or platform you choose.)<div><br /></div><div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Rules of Thumb</h3><br /><b>Blogging Rules of Thumb - Strategic <br /></b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Blog for yourself first and foremost.</li><li>Don't spend too much timing imagining a perceived audience and what will make them happy. What makes you happy is what you should write about.</li><li>The creation process is the point of blogging. Not number of readers or popularity.</li><li>Follow your passion for what you blog about. Follow it to odd extremes and go down different paths.</li><li>Stay away from negativity unless it is constructive and illustrative. Negativity doesn’t age well and is hard to do well and wittily.</li><li>Short posts are okay. If you don't have much to say, don't say much.</li><li>Unique diagrams, photos, and insight are good. Be different. Add value through your uniqueness. Add value by writing about your experiences.</li><li>Think long term about how the blog will age over time. Will a post be a time capsule of interest, remain relevant or be completely uninteresting 50 years from now? What would your writing look like in other contexts (a book e.g.)?</li><li>Connect your blog posts together over time.</li></ul><br /><b>Blogging Rules of Thumb - Tactical <br /></b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>High resolution images are good. The higher the better. Storage is free.</li><li>Use links but don't make the post dependent on them. Links don't last long, i.e., sites disappear and links change surprisingly frequently.</li><li>Try to get as close to the reference material you are using as possible rather than relying on secondary sources. (If you restate Wikipedia often, maybe you should go and join their effort and make their pages better and stop blogging. I should take my own advice.)</li><li>When creating a link don't just say "here", spell out the link name. Think about a printed version of the material: "here" won't make sense.</li></ul><br /><b>Set Your Expectations<br /></b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>If you are a new blogger or an obscure blogger (and most are, including this blog), chances are that few people will read your blog. Not even your friends or family. Screaming into the void? Pissing into the wind? Perhaps. Our blogging theme song could be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_Fly_%28Whisper_to_a_Scream%29">Birds Fly (A Whisper to A Scream)</a> by the Icicle Works.</li><li>If you are thinking you can make a quick buck on advertising, run the numbers carefully. You have to have a lot of page views. (For example, read about our experience here: <i><a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2023/02/valentines-day-and-i-broke-up-with-google-adsense.html">Valentine’s Day and I Broke Up with Google AdSense</a></i>.)</li><li>Unless you are already famous, chances are that your blog will be found when people search for something and come upon your blog and word of mouth or links start happening. (Assuming you don't pay for placement or something like that.)</li><li>Spend a little time and understand how to blog so that search engines can find and understand what you are writing about.</li><li>You will create ugly and beautiful posts. It's hard to know how a post will turn out. Also, it's hard to tell what will be popular (by tallying page views over time). Don't worry, just create.</li><li>Fill out the post metadata like location, and search descriptions. Give good URI names to the posts like "rules-for-blogging.html".</li><li>Publishing your blog content in our social media can help bring in readers. It's not something we've done with this blog.</li></ul><br /><b>Unexpected Blog Rewards<br /></b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>A blog is a handy reference to look up things you did, said or discovered. We can't tell you the number of times we use our own blog for looking up things we've done.</li><li>A blog is handy to send to friends asking for advice on something you covered in a blog. Again, numerous times we've sent links to our blog about how to do something or something we did (usually travel-related).</li></ul><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Content Freshness</h3><div><br /></div>Keeping content fresh and thinking about future conversions is probably the furthest thing from your mind if you are just starting off. However, it's worth spending some time thinking about it, in particular how you'll be able to move content form one platform to a future platform.<br /><br />In early 2023, we started thinking about how to convert blog content (accessible from RSS feeds) into markdown that we could save elsewhere. (In particular, we were targeting our <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/search/label/scrapbook">Scrapbook effort</a> as a blog backup.) <br /><br />We learned a few things to help us with future conversions. Some lessons from this effort include: <br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>1) Links to websites (besides Wikipedia) don't endure particularly long. We found many broken links in our old posts.<br /></b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Lesson: If necessary, take a screenshot of the website to show it, especially if it’s an obscure site. Sounds stupid to do but think 10-20 years in the future. Or create a PDF of the site.</li><li>Lesson: Museum websites always change (and don't put redirects). If you must link, Wikipedia is a better choice.</li><li>Lesson: When linking to a website, don't link deep into the site. Link just the main page.</li></ul><br /><b>2) Linking to other images breaks when image names change. Redirects are almost never in place.</b><br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Lesson: Always copy the image and give credit if necessary.</li></ul><br /><b>3) Formatting styles change in time. There will always be some time needed for "conversion" or "curation". To lessen the burden, consider the following: <br /></b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Lesson: Go easy on links. It's okay not to hyperlink everything. Don't set target attributes.</li><li>Lesson: Avoid weird formatting like coloring (when not necessary) or spans or complicated HTML.</li><li>Lesson: Check the HTML and make sure it's as simple as possible (for future conversions).</li><li>Lesson: Be careful copying from Word or other sources as they can introduce formatting you may not want.</li></ul><br /><b>4) Don't’ skimp on images. <br /></b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Lesson: Blog posts without at least one image are kind of boring. At least, when we looked back at old posts with no images, that was our first feeling.</li><li>Lesson: Always add at least one image and use your own images whenever possible.</li><li>Lesson: If an image isn’t readily available, have fun with the AI image generators? How well can you describe your blog to create an image to match? Examples are included in this post.</li></ul><br /><b>5) Add yourself, add little easter eggs. <br /></b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Lesson: Put your thoughts and some "color" of the moment in your life that you are writing the post. It's a joy to read some thoughts you had no matter how silly from way back.</li></ul></div></div>TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com0Bergamo, Province of Bergamo, Italy45.6982642 9.677269817.388030363821152 -25.478980200000002 74.00849803617885 44.8335198tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-25816834737038708002023-12-17T14:54:00.004+01:002023-12-17T15:05:40.831+01:00McCoy Basket Weave Flower Pots and Chlorophytum comosum (Spider plant)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYBeEXNKKer9Fn7DJWH0RJrhTLuPD3IsGX0MnrP6UZPzaSPXFJzyPy9cPAmvTWiehVJUOciingBB8LAwoUEcpmLuHnx9KeQeStO0n5IRGx2DtE7x4zJeGQ-GP-O9XEKoNcDeWtGew47nwad1Jj6OjNKfOGuWkDL68aWLASp4hWBcDdVl5TmuY7ORjEIg/s4080/McCoy%20Basket%20Weave%20Pots%20-%20collection%203.jpg"><img alt="McCoy Basket Weave Flower Pots and Chlorphytum comosum" border="0" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYBeEXNKKer9Fn7DJWH0RJrhTLuPD3IsGX0MnrP6UZPzaSPXFJzyPy9cPAmvTWiehVJUOciingBB8LAwoUEcpmLuHnx9KeQeStO0n5IRGx2DtE7x4zJeGQ-GP-O9XEKoNcDeWtGew47nwad1Jj6OjNKfOGuWkDL68aWLASp4hWBcDdVl5TmuY7ORjEIg/w293-h221/McCoy%20Basket%20Weave%20Pots%20-%20collection%203.jpg" title="McCoy Basket Weave Flower Pots and Chlorphytum comosum" width="293" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiveViOCVPfG33RMExyyvQCXtQOQF5aIUxrrs2WIOf3y3Yp_65msggzN8n7Xa8GiinmQABPOUuQQ-r4DbDhOj3diNtb3qM3gQwnyuiWoshlmEAVc41PUqCDvLo9Ms7U8GF1nhDsnk4uix8EC-O_F6C6YnxNH97Q1OX_YSgG98a0RGrf4GSKWqFh3kcUBg/s4080/McCoy%20Basket%20Weave%20Pots%20-%20top%20down%20view.jpg"><img alt="McCoy Basket Weave Flower Pots and Chlorphytum comosum" border="0" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiveViOCVPfG33RMExyyvQCXtQOQF5aIUxrrs2WIOf3y3Yp_65msggzN8n7Xa8GiinmQABPOUuQQ-r4DbDhOj3diNtb3qM3gQwnyuiWoshlmEAVc41PUqCDvLo9Ms7U8GF1nhDsnk4uix8EC-O_F6C6YnxNH97Q1OX_YSgG98a0RGrf4GSKWqFh3kcUBg/w294-h221/McCoy%20Basket%20Weave%20Pots%20-%20top%20down%20view.jpg" title="McCoy Basket Weave Flower Pots and Chlorphytum comosum" width="294" /></a><br /><br /> In this <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/p/pots-and-plants-series.html">POTS AND PLANTS</a> post, we pair McCoy Basket Weave Planters with spider plants, <i>Chlorophytum comosum</i>. Several points to make: <br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Almost all of our McCoy pots made it to Bergamo, Italy in the <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2022/11/an-international-move-story-moving-from-usa-to-italy.html">international move</a>. We may have left a few behind, stashed in a friend’s basement. Note to self: check.</li><li>The name typically used to describe these pieces is “McCoy Pottery Basket Weave Planters”, circa 1950's.</li><li>It’s great to be using these pots again. They are as they say in Italian of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruttiboni">certain cookie</a> “<i>brutti ma buoni</i>” - ugly but good. The colors are garish, the forms strange, but we love them anyway.</li><li>It’s been a long time since a “Pots and Plants” post! In fact, our first in the series back in 2011 <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2011/08/mccoy-flower-pots-and-crassulaceae.html">McCoy Flower Pots and Crassulaceae</a> featured some of the same pots seen here.</li></ul><br />We’ve been on a spider plant (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophytum_comosum"><i>Chlorophytum comosum</i></a>) kick lately. One day last summer, we were walking by the small chapel <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/6iPMKmipgGHFbAQE9">Beata Vergine di Caravaggio</a> on the backside of the upper city of Bergamo and saw a spider plant outside the entrance. Usually, this plant is inside the locked chapel. We took one of the many plantlets and brought it home. That plant in turn produced more plantlets which are shown in these McCoy pots.<div><br /></div><div>Spider plants remind me of my youth when I was designated plant waterer. They are tough plants. Many of these starts are destined for spots outdoors. Here, they are pictured in our “tower” where we temperature can go between 10 – 50 Celsius (50 to 104 Fahrenheit) seasonally.<br /><br />It’s good to putz around with plants again. We’ve missed that. The other half of Travelmarx is thinking soon I'll be jonesing for macrame holders to hold these spider plants. Good idea!</div><div><br /></div><div>Note: There is a <i>Tradescantia </i>snuck into these photos.</div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUIcygQrK3V7KQQO0QbAtaH96a3ILtGFsRdC210tgaM98NUFT9d9cPDJRfAWFd3CVSkoqxRz6Kc0qF0b27IKyILtaPdLuQoxsZB4wtik-He8X0f176_pDXY4V92TIn6LSfF4erftN76aOBrRt1rX0qMGCyITYvb6chQYRTNW1yv1onFdSOmIoGnK_lNQ/s4032/McCoy%20Basket%20Weave%20and%20Citta%20Alta.jpg"><img alt="McCoy Basket Weave Flower Pots and Chlorphytum comosum" border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUIcygQrK3V7KQQO0QbAtaH96a3ILtGFsRdC210tgaM98NUFT9d9cPDJRfAWFd3CVSkoqxRz6Kc0qF0b27IKyILtaPdLuQoxsZB4wtik-He8X0f176_pDXY4V92TIn6LSfF4erftN76aOBrRt1rX0qMGCyITYvb6chQYRTNW1yv1onFdSOmIoGnK_lNQ/w191-h143/McCoy%20Basket%20Weave%20and%20Citta%20Alta.jpg" title="McCoy Basket Weave Flower Pots and Chlorphytum comosum" width="191" /></a> <a 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjilvKBbVuF5JxeULBrcA2RUk9ogMMaywgMpgTOeeCjMpt1Ql-8hAQwLsTyaAs6Yb5FOw-UfyYS45WNFXlg6AOckjbK6C34kNr4omPTmhiLrCFhwmM-JnS_RbF2z-XLb7RgObrNOERFKKy9C6yDyHhPR5-rRTeWPsljUbseAgxf8xCrBAimSba9WD98Rg/s4032/McCoy%20Basket%20Weave%20Pots%20with%20Spider%20Plants.jpg"><img alt="McCoy Basket Weave Flower Pots and Chlorphytum comosum" border="0" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjilvKBbVuF5JxeULBrcA2RUk9ogMMaywgMpgTOeeCjMpt1Ql-8hAQwLsTyaAs6Yb5FOw-UfyYS45WNFXlg6AOckjbK6C34kNr4omPTmhiLrCFhwmM-JnS_RbF2z-XLb7RgObrNOERFKKy9C6yDyHhPR5-rRTeWPsljUbseAgxf8xCrBAimSba9WD98Rg/w193-h145/McCoy%20Basket%20Weave%20Pots%20with%20Spider%20Plants.jpg" title="McCoy Basket Weave Flower Pots and Chlorphytum comosum" width="193" /></a><br /><br /></div>TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com0Bergamo, Province of Bergamo, Italy45.6982642 9.677269817.388030363821152 -25.478980200000002 74.00849803617885 44.8335198tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-59142428127766125412023-12-16T19:26:00.008+01:002023-12-17T15:09:37.479+01:00Desire Paths<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8XtFeF3ONxPh2hBMV8e9BQxb4pH6qKvJKHzeBjoojlKKq1Di_PaSjwa4ERvS84XlYyoTFkG3ZtHlsfDBwdvj5RpP3znT2qlWH3exIfGYf66wO085CKtpSrBbz7edrG5vubinUSCWmBRs-DYkgTA_C9qAvtryig0kCwCxQu2XzmE2tbbaw-bANqquWVA/s4032/Bergamo%20desire%20path%201.jpg"><img alt="Desire path in Bergamo, Italy" border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8XtFeF3ONxPh2hBMV8e9BQxb4pH6qKvJKHzeBjoojlKKq1Di_PaSjwa4ERvS84XlYyoTFkG3ZtHlsfDBwdvj5RpP3znT2qlWH3exIfGYf66wO085CKtpSrBbz7edrG5vubinUSCWmBRs-DYkgTA_C9qAvtryig0kCwCxQu2XzmE2tbbaw-bANqquWVA/w190-h143/Bergamo%20desire%20path%201.jpg" title="Desire path in Bergamo, Italy" width="190" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHv2VILFkJHmAqp9wbzFomWnBjyKbphiq_zkqh0kyG3_RhlZFCGqBJ4eLQY1xe3MPawlkOoQVt9g8dOviag8taFJ_DHsbvN_E7YrchkcSALf_HuXP606CmHSVQDEThXs70yiRN1OxKhF1-GZOymmsb26FQvFR7WlbVSO2UsRmOOqGFio75wSW-5jTX4Q/s4032/Venice%20desire%20path%202.jpg"><img alt="Desire path in Venice, Italy" border="0" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHv2VILFkJHmAqp9wbzFomWnBjyKbphiq_zkqh0kyG3_RhlZFCGqBJ4eLQY1xe3MPawlkOoQVt9g8dOviag8taFJ_DHsbvN_E7YrchkcSALf_HuXP606CmHSVQDEThXs70yiRN1OxKhF1-GZOymmsb26FQvFR7WlbVSO2UsRmOOqGFio75wSW-5jTX4Q/w189-h142/Venice%20desire%20path%202.jpg" title="Desire path in Venice, Italy" width="189" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBdPO3Qwjqkbuj5qV0NVLl95q6RDBqFLhp980yIC_KscLvBRNGeBPuwi73yWW-p0vZ4l14iA7VTZOJ31NHdHK862kSA3_QQOwv-QMSJ4kekAJ6PkXkhaKudPK38Sl9YRn2Dabk6a7uQlnUfWF-l57abhc-u89EcCTUz616QqMco3u4w2EmB7LW1KH7TA/s4032/Spolet%20desire%20path.jpg"><img alt="Desire path in Spoleto, Italy" border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBdPO3Qwjqkbuj5qV0NVLl95q6RDBqFLhp980yIC_KscLvBRNGeBPuwi73yWW-p0vZ4l14iA7VTZOJ31NHdHK862kSA3_QQOwv-QMSJ4kekAJ6PkXkhaKudPK38Sl9YRn2Dabk6a7uQlnUfWF-l57abhc-u89EcCTUz616QqMco3u4w2EmB7LW1KH7TA/w190-h143/Spolet%20desire%20path.jpg" title="Desire path in Spoleto, Italy" width="190" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Desire paths in Bergamo, Venice, and Spoleto Italy.</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div>In the realm of urban planning, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path">desire path</a> refers to the shortcuts created by pedestrians. Why pedestrians create desire paths is debated. Some authors (see references) say it’s a political statement or an expression of nonconformity. In the vast majority of cases, we believe this to be false. Pedestrians simply optimize their time getting from one point to another or optimize perceived safety.</div><br />As we collected desire paths for this post, it occurred to us that the concept can be applied to the internet, becoming a metaphor for our quest for information. <div><br />The internet has no shortage of information pathways. Search engines, social media platforms, and websites serve as the paved sidewalks, guiding users towards their destinations. However, like pedestrians who carve out their own desire paths, internet users often find themselves forging their own routes in the pursuit of knowledge. <br /><br />This act of finding your own path is not merely a means to an end but an essential part of the learning process. It is through this journey you engage with diverse perspectives, stumble upon new ideas, and ultimately, enrich your understanding. The destination, or the final piece of information, is just one part of the equation. The journey, filled with exploration and discovery, holds equal, if not more, significance. <br /><br />The analogy between real-world desire paths and information desire paths breaks down when we consider the potential for getting stuck in Internet information bubbles. Real-world desire paths usually don’t have this feature, that is, getting stuck in a dangerous loop. <br /><br />The internet does not dictate any particular path but allows the freedom to explore, to get lost, and to find your way back. In the best of situations – notwithstanding rabbit holes and information bubbles – this mirrors life, where the destination should not be overshadowed by the journey. After all, it is the journey that shapes us, that makes us who we are. <br /><br />My information desire path about real-world desire paths started as an observation that I took for granted for many years and then started to wonder if others saw them too. And they do, for example: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/DesirePaths/">Desire Paths (reddit.com)</a>. That led me to realize that I was not at all original in my observations – though glad I was able to shed light on them. The Internet is humbling in that way. A day late and a dollar short would apply for many observations that I realize are old news like desire paths and ASMR. (For years, I thought it was just me that liked certain sounds. <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2016/07/an-open-letter-to-asmr-creators.html">Then in 2016</a>, I realized it wasn’t the case.)</div><div><br /></div><div><div>When we first started thinking about desire paths, they made us angry. Why were people so rude we wondered. Then came a reality check that we used the same paths. Even later came the idea that desire paths express a sort of "good" social tension. What you are supposed to do and little shortcuts around that. That's healthy. A city isn't a static place, it's always changing. If not paths, then <a href="40 Doors of Bergamo - Psychogeography">doors</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>References:</div><div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/tracing-and-erasing-new-yorks-lines-of-desire">Tracing (and Erasing) New York’s Lines of Desire | The New Yorker</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/oct/05/desire-paths-the-illicit-trails-that-defy-the-urban-planners">Desire paths: the illicit trails that defy the urban planners | Cities | The Guardian</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.geographyrealm.com/what-are-desire-paths/">What are Desire Paths? - Geography Realm</a> </li><li><a href="https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1385&context=lhapapers">Editorial essay: networked utopias and speculative futures (uow.edu.au)</a> </li><ul><li>See FCJ-143 Ouvert/Open: Common Utopias </li></ul><li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/DesirePaths/">Desire Paths (reddit.com)</a> </li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path">Desire Path | Wikipedia</a></li></ul></div><div><br /></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMdrxOYW5NRam_IeP2LQSll61UoduTaNJwOQcSA5VklD3j-fnbHHjeLOGprKf2fDsyfcVRnwppatEvSIVr3R2FzYFm3og8oD4n7kEUL2ZUofL9cqjcpZ1JnnWtBLl1PHXIvtnRwcScOa-V1ubblmFBcfAUnLF-pTYW316J8DuSXDwaTvwsP8d4pIJQPw/s4032/Bergamo%20deisre%20path%202.jpg"><img alt="Desire path in Bergamo, Italy" border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMdrxOYW5NRam_IeP2LQSll61UoduTaNJwOQcSA5VklD3j-fnbHHjeLOGprKf2fDsyfcVRnwppatEvSIVr3R2FzYFm3og8oD4n7kEUL2ZUofL9cqjcpZ1JnnWtBLl1PHXIvtnRwcScOa-V1ubblmFBcfAUnLF-pTYW316J8DuSXDwaTvwsP8d4pIJQPw/w191-h143/Bergamo%20deisre%20path%202.jpg" title="Desire path in Bergamo, Italy" width="191" /></a> <a 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Right: Desire path in Pompeii, Italy.<br /></span></b><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHXB_T5SSDuBOKy7t6qBptkKHTVqBikPSZ1mto4Q73qKzv3LhzdChIVuZTFWtt9t7kq0LIYDCXsaom_RlbyzEVvvUfuzL6SZse2WhsP7ZNBjKRi_HqrWE8vCqLxKwgcHIUemx6NZ1sTIwAY2DvIJjRZVHVkncnIiT7aoTYnz2h14KdrN6Idff5C5N-jQ/s4032/Venice%20desire%20path%203.jpg"><img alt="Desire path in Venice, Italy" border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHXB_T5SSDuBOKy7t6qBptkKHTVqBikPSZ1mto4Q73qKzv3LhzdChIVuZTFWtt9t7kq0LIYDCXsaom_RlbyzEVvvUfuzL6SZse2WhsP7ZNBjKRi_HqrWE8vCqLxKwgcHIUemx6NZ1sTIwAY2DvIJjRZVHVkncnIiT7aoTYnz2h14KdrN6Idff5C5N-jQ/w139-h186/Venice%20desire%20path%203.jpg" title="Desire path in Venice, Italy" width="139" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcDeJcqLZYPku4Va4xR2bCPi7_V0cJssNJFG6nqm_8TaDHH_GqTMJX9jJhPj8BCwXpewPa_c0gCujp-0gb26u67Ddap0nJbL1yzu85F3M_geVq0Kks4KsGzSNqGmlrFo5n4N7H0R1FJJDa5K0s9lgOrtgyO_kaLSk4sYvCB2SPimFXYjozsQxx4j2Ldg/s4032/Venice%20desire%20path%204.jpg"><img alt="Desire path in Venice, Italy" border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcDeJcqLZYPku4Va4xR2bCPi7_V0cJssNJFG6nqm_8TaDHH_GqTMJX9jJhPj8BCwXpewPa_c0gCujp-0gb26u67Ddap0nJbL1yzu85F3M_geVq0Kks4KsGzSNqGmlrFo5n4N7H0R1FJJDa5K0s9lgOrtgyO_kaLSk4sYvCB2SPimFXYjozsQxx4j2Ldg/w139-h185/Venice%20desire%20path%204.jpg" title="Desire path in Venice, Italy" width="139" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimNXr0NrxVJlcs_J_KNjTepFZFrI9jzncpKqX_hyphenhyphen4GpsrfVtjLzp3AYm8nArK0hdxtHmPJy7QLyro67Bvt4j081Hm4lf2QsBlwSYXxvyaxutpd0_xvyfvJ_PikVYK6vNh3qumFhqnNtHIluwKSFO3bCIv3U0WvXUynFtRuItvx3l4ULGnrDmJcREXLeA/s4032/Venice%20desire%20path%205.jpg"><img alt="Desire path in Venice, Italy" border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimNXr0NrxVJlcs_J_KNjTepFZFrI9jzncpKqX_hyphenhyphen4GpsrfVtjLzp3AYm8nArK0hdxtHmPJy7QLyro67Bvt4j081Hm4lf2QsBlwSYXxvyaxutpd0_xvyfvJ_PikVYK6vNh3qumFhqnNtHIluwKSFO3bCIv3U0WvXUynFtRuItvx3l4ULGnrDmJcREXLeA/w140-h186/Venice%20desire%20path%205.jpg" title="Desire path in Venice, Italy" width="140" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisEqjCdbm8WgWVMMPiCIlhwKyMzgAuIy2zSCghzbWxqNcgbfXsuV0w7owHOqL1sVqU_QgXdNGuUfkcaOaA4lhEF73bWUocNyvPsJFNvdz-XXLAhLYnV1-W4NqZx8lpjoWqfFy9e3CWydhrdvGtEzraFS4RGFv5mB_0LfXDtDrtWRJFU4xkQcAmFZwKOQ/s4032/Venice%20desire%20path%206.jpg"><img alt="Desire path in Venice, Italy" border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisEqjCdbm8WgWVMMPiCIlhwKyMzgAuIy2zSCghzbWxqNcgbfXsuV0w7owHOqL1sVqU_QgXdNGuUfkcaOaA4lhEF73bWUocNyvPsJFNvdz-XXLAhLYnV1-W4NqZx8lpjoWqfFy9e3CWydhrdvGtEzraFS4RGFv5mB_0LfXDtDrtWRJFU4xkQcAmFZwKOQ/w139-h185/Venice%20desire%20path%206.jpg" title="Desire path in Venice, Italy" width="139" /></a><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Desire paths in Venice, Italy.</span></b></div><div><br /></div></div></div>TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com0Bergamo, Province of Bergamo, Italy45.6982642 9.677269817.388030363821152 -25.478980200000002 74.00849803617885 44.8335198tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-43882364660379573222023-12-11T18:31:00.000+01:002023-12-11T18:31:03.913+01:00Music Album Covers with a Person Smoking<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPl6OH5RQKxHny71MeNe57m4D9gOln9nBuzdjEfIMbjhGZTcmEcoEopIG7wbAS9BxBbQK8cihrPDtiMnJVTBI61jidKGlcpTWAqYSHwM_lGXXfgqR9AnneHSa1qtgp-vl5z9X0edga18crwZgaxmSslqiI75k_4mena91kvPaas9UIR2NfQTanoS-ExA/s1359/mosaic%20of%2030%20images%20of%20album%20covers%20featuring%20smoking.png"><img alt="A mosaic of 30 musical album covers featuring people smoking." border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPl6OH5RQKxHny71MeNe57m4D9gOln9nBuzdjEfIMbjhGZTcmEcoEopIG7wbAS9BxBbQK8cihrPDtiMnJVTBI61jidKGlcpTWAqYSHwM_lGXXfgqR9AnneHSa1qtgp-vl5z9X0edga18crwZgaxmSslqiI75k_4mena91kvPaas9UIR2NfQTanoS-ExA/w267-h320/mosaic%20of%2030%20images%20of%20album%20covers%20featuring%20smoking.png" title="A mosaic of 30 musical album covers featuring people smoking." width="267" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>A mosaic of 30 musical album covers featuring people smoking.</b></span><br /><div><br /></div>Here are 30 album music album covers featuring a person smoking. About one third of the covers are from the 1970s. <br /><br />Some stats: Smoking in the USA has fallen since 1965 when <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/184418/percentage-of-cigarette-smoking-in-the-us/">42 percent</a> of the adult population were cigarette smokers. As of 2021, the number has fallen to about 12 percent. As of 2023, <a href="https://loudcloudhealth.com/resources/how-many-people-smoke-cigarettes-infographic/">about 19%</a> of adult people in the world are smokers. <br /><br />Some thoughts: smoking as “cool” is connected to glamour, sophistication, and iconic Hollowood figures. Smoking projects individuality and non-conformity – or at least that’s how it’s hoped to be perceived. Personally, when we see the smoking images, we think of people who we know that smoke and that dreaded “stench” that follow them around, a decidedly less glamourous, cool, and rebellious. <br /><br />1970 Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower<br />1973 Harry Nilsson - A Light Touch of Schmilsson <br />1974 Badfinger - Badfinger <br />1974 Tom Waits - The Heat of Saturday Night <br />1975 David Bowie - Young Americans <br /><br />1976 Gordon Lightfoot - Summertime Dream <br />1977 Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle <br />1979 John Mellencamp - John Cougar <br />1979 Marianne Faithfull - Broken English <br />1979 Miles Davis - Circle in the Round <br /><br />1979 Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones <br />1980 John Hiatt - Two Bit Monsters <br />1980 Loverboy - Loverboy <br />1982 Donald Fagen - The Nightfly <br />1982 Sylvester - Do You Wanna Funk <br /><br />1984 Van Halen - 1984 <br />1987 The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs <br />1988 Noel - Noel <br />1989 Don Henley - The End of Innocence <br />1990 Sonic Youth - Goo <br /><br />1992 Bob Marley - Songs of Freedom <br />1994 Original Soundtrack - Pulp Fiction <br />1998 Marianne Faithful - The Seven Deadly Sins <br />1999 Fred Buscaglione - Il Favoloso <br />2000 Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now <br /><br />2006 Artic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What Im Not <br />2015 Curtis Harding - Soul Power <br />2018 Caroline Rose - Loner <br />2021 Nick Lowe - The Convincer <br />2023 13th Ward Social Club - Gainsbourg, Volume One TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com0Seattle, WA, USA47.6061389 -122.332848119.295905063821152 -157.4890981 75.916372736178843 -87.1765981tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-14011880731802709832023-11-25T14:02:00.004+01:002023-11-25T14:02:41.015+01:00Sintra in Three Days - Plants and Patterns<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2023/11/sintra-in-three-days-plants-and-patterns.html#motivation">Motivation</a> ~ <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2023/11/sintra-in-three-days-plants-and-patterns.html#itinerary">Itinerary and Tips</a> ~ <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2023/11/sintra-in-three-days-plants-and-patterns.html#plants">Plants and Patterns</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVAlecGA4a6BfFWL12yFV6oJF-1c29x024umyfMBfUs-jr3_ycahjrAWwrfh6iW0H8xetK9z6-5tSeNJ2Wwed7YQ_IRf0THTLmJf5BayxhOAJWcKEcvQKh3XHNy8UzJeqSgGZz9DPCkEVMkcKAtKpyi1yi9-f03Rr99-a1XfSlbgcwSErWIdM7u2fuOA/s1255/sintra%20-%20mosaic%20of%2020%20plants.png"><img alt="Sintra, Portugal - mosaic of 20 plants." border="0" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVAlecGA4a6BfFWL12yFV6oJF-1c29x024umyfMBfUs-jr3_ycahjrAWwrfh6iW0H8xetK9z6-5tSeNJ2Wwed7YQ_IRf0THTLmJf5BayxhOAJWcKEcvQKh3XHNy8UzJeqSgGZz9DPCkEVMkcKAtKpyi1yi9-f03Rr99-a1XfSlbgcwSErWIdM7u2fuOA/w191-h153/sintra%20-%20mosaic%20of%2020%20plants.png" title="Sintra, Portugal - mosaic of 20 plants." width="191" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiijm9a93jX8cAz6H1UZWazaGo7k-RCQndXNySDeKt9WIl2nFGGiQ-NrmaniM824KLU9Wsh7Kr2_GgxtUVgfMalWwTMS7KnY-Xb1U4uSucrVQpLieh__rON4uZ0v5FCwKjziT3aR56d-oiHdwbDzRCShzZl0AlpE-OmaBdYAsNVX0Wem_Y2RddK55glWw/s1357/sintra%20-%2030%20patterns%20from%20around%20town.png"><img alt="Sintra, Portugal - 30 patterns from around town." border="0" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiijm9a93jX8cAz6H1UZWazaGo7k-RCQndXNySDeKt9WIl2nFGGiQ-NrmaniM824KLU9Wsh7Kr2_GgxtUVgfMalWwTMS7KnY-Xb1U4uSucrVQpLieh__rON4uZ0v5FCwKjziT3aR56d-oiHdwbDzRCShzZl0AlpE-OmaBdYAsNVX0Wem_Y2RddK55glWw/w183-h153/sintra%20-%2030%20patterns%20from%20around%20town.png" title="Sintra, Portugal - 30 patterns from around town." width="183" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2FP3DYgd16Bjw2JskXNU4f5fcWpgeECXN9xY-CU7knRV8EsRLGathdIAEHOMzi_6jYY5KcLDGWqXIp5XjpeQChNiQmt5uFuRqJJ6EMybzTS3MRbgxLsmHf-q0YwFgb4IJEhQGlYltkbXoSDkeI8JTodi2DqquD406Z4D-xUOhXSb8VDwkVuDbkp8yDQ/s1255/sintra%20national%20palace%20-%2020%20tile%20patterns.png"><img alt="Sintra National Palace - 20 tile patterns." border="0" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2FP3DYgd16Bjw2JskXNU4f5fcWpgeECXN9xY-CU7knRV8EsRLGathdIAEHOMzi_6jYY5KcLDGWqXIp5XjpeQChNiQmt5uFuRqJJ6EMybzTS3MRbgxLsmHf-q0YwFgb4IJEhQGlYltkbXoSDkeI8JTodi2DqquD406Z4D-xUOhXSb8VDwkVuDbkp8yDQ/w190-h153/sintra%20national%20palace%20-%2020%20tile%20patterns.png" title="Sintra National Palace - 20 tile patterns." width="190" /></a><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: A mosaic of plants seen during three days in Sintra, Portugal.<br />Center: A mosaic of architectural features in Sintra, Portugal.<br />Right: Tiles from the Sintra National Palace.</span></b></p><p><br /></p><h3 id="motivation" style="text-align: left;">Motivation </h3><div><br /></div>We went to Lisbon in 2016 and on that trip had planned a day in Sintra but never made it. The imagery of the brightly colored Pena Palace and strange cones of the Sintra National Palace intrigued us and stayed with us. So, when we wanted to escape for Thanksgiving this year, Sintra was a top choice. (We don’t celebrate in Italy, but I was afraid someone might invite us to do so. Yes, I’m that scarred by Thanksgivings pasts.) <br /><br />When studying for a possible visit to Sintra, it became obvious to us that one day would not be enough given our slower travel style. So, we dedicated 3 days (stayed 3 nights). It was perfect. <br /><br /><br /><div><h3 id="itinerary" style="text-align: left;">Itinerary and Tips </h3><div><br /></div>Here’s what we did over our three days in Sintra: <br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Day 0: arrive late afternoon, check in, walk the town a bit.</li><li>Day 1: Castelos dos Mouros (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_of_the_Moors">Castle of the Moors</a>), Palácio da Pena (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pena_Palace">Pena Palace</a>), late lunch.</li><ul><li>We spent the day walking. Walk to Castelos dos Mouros (entered at <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/MC2e9XT7TSwMjQqm9">Rampa do Castelo</a>) , then Pena Palace, and then back to Sintra via the Vila Sassetti trail.</li></ul><li>Day 2: Palácio de Monserrate (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monserrate_Palace">Monserrate Palace</a>), lunch, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinta_da_Regaleira">Quinta da Regaleira</a>.</li><ul><li>We took a Tuk Tuk to Monserrate and then bus 435 back to station. From the station, the next bus was more time than it took to walk to Quinta, so we walked.</li></ul><li>Day 3: Palácio de Sintra (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sintra_National_Palace">Sintra National Palace</a>), lunch, depart.</li><ul><li>We stayed across the street in Sintra Flower Lux apartments.</li></ul></ul><div><br /></div><div>Our favorite stop was Monserrate because there were way fewer people, the house was fun to visit, and the gardens spectacular. Our least favorite was Quinta. The Sintra National Palace was a very calm and relaxing experience. Get the audio guide on your phone, it’s worth it.</div><br />At Pena Palace, your ticket is timed for entry into the castle, not the garden and areas around the castle. So, enter early if you want. Entry into the castle for your time slot could still take some time. We shuffled through a line for 20+ minutes before entering the castle and then inside, we were constrained to walk single file for the first part of the visit, and spaces are tight. It’s a pity because it takes away from the experience. Hang back in your time slot and the crowd should thin out. <br /><br />We thought the Chalet of the Countess of Edla (on the Pena Palace ticket and located in the vast garden) was perhaps more intriguing than the palace, because there were less people, more time to explore on your own. Don’t miss it. <br /><br />Some other tips that might help: <br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Figuring out the bus. Arggh...we were so silly.</li><ul><li>Because the roads are one way, you must factor in that you may be returning to the station (where the buses start) to get to another site that seems close by. It took us a bit to figure that out. The main buses are 434 and 435 and go in loops.</li><li>Google maps doesn’t seem to know about these routes.</li><li>We downloaded the ScottUrb app but it wasn’t working and proved useless. You just wait until the bus comes. You can pay on the bus.</li></ul><li>Take a Tuk Tuk to save time, at least once for the fun of it. Negotiate the price or at least don’t accept willingly the first price they might throw out.</li><li>You can store luggage at the very nice Loja Tradições - Artesanato e Depósito de Bagagem - across from the train station. Super nice people and easy storage.</li><li>Places we ate breakfast at:</li><ul><li><a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/VkHk9KbYxdBwMrhZ9">Café Saudade</a> was the best followed by the nearby <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/qNXmdGrEnfJXCKcm9">Larmanjat</a>. Both of these places are near the station.</li><li><a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/YYupbFvTT5adZpFm8">Café Paris</a> in the historical center is overpriced and a bit shabby though with nice location.</li><li><a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/7fW1FaXLDQy87ndv5">Fábrica da Nata</a> – stopped twice here to get a pastel de nata.</li></ul><li>Places we ate and liked for lunch:</li><ul><li><a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/mD27hDjG9rpwj1bq6">Taverna do Municipio</a></li></ul><li>Places we ate at and liked for dinner:</li><ul><li><a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/dNSWG5LmQ3T2qsfy9">Romaria de Baco</a> (ate here twice we liked it so much)</li><li><a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/TXTVMUZmJkC1MzQE7">Bacalhau na Vila</a></li></ul></ul>If we had stayed longer, we would have considered the following:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Take a trip to visit <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/CjqX4AjvQRpuYcnK7">Palazzo Nazionale di Quelez.</a> Likely would be a taxi ride.</li><li>Take a trip to the coast just under 10 km away as the crow flies.</li><li>Visit the <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/XS1yKX4TKLznuNxT9">Museu Anjos Teixeira</a> - right in the center of Sintra.</li><li>Visit the <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZdjhWqbi4AxiMFAdA">Palácio e Parque Biester</a> - near La Regaleira.</li><li>Stroll through <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/wrHbb9mjVzo6QA9h7">Parque da Liberdade</a> – in the center of Sintra.</li><li>Heck, even take a day trip to Lisbon, the reverse of what everyone else does.</li></ul><div><br /></div></div><h3 id="plants" style="text-align: left;">Plants and Patterns </h3>Our three days in Sintra brought a rush of sights, sounds and tastes. It was in some way the perfect short get-away vacation. We wondered why. <br /><br />We figured this out: first, it was the <b>plants</b> that we saw during our stay. To understand the plants, you must understand the climate. The climate in Sintra, Portugal in general is mild, warm and temperate, and is greatly influenced by the Atlantic Ocean. On the widely used <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification">Köppen-Geiger climate classification system,</a> Sintra is rated as “Csb”. The Csb classification is a subtype of the Mediterranean climate, characterized by dry and warm summers, and mild and rainy winters. The summers in Sintra have day temperatures ranging from 14 °C (57 °F) in January to 24 °C (75 °F) in August. The winters are cold, wet, and partly cloudy, with temperatures ranging from 48°F to 79°F. <br /><br />When we arrived, it was a foggy Sunday afternoon in mid-November. Such as mysterious welcome to Sintra. (Our plane was delayed due to fog.) Then the next few days it was sunny, breezy, and pleasant. <br /><br />In the Sintra climate, there are lots of plants that we love! We felt at home...like a little bit of Seattle, a little bit of California, a little bit of Italy.<br /> <br />A good example of the range of plants in the gardens of Monserrate Palace, which were the most pleasant that we experienced. (Here’s a <a href="https://treefinder.parquesdesintra.pt/">tree finder</a> for that garden.) Here are just a few of the genus names you’ll see at Monserrate and around Sintra:<br /><br /><blockquote>Abies, Acacia, Acer, Aesculus, Albizia, Aloe, Araucaria, Arbutus, Archontophoenix, Aucuba, Beaucarnea, Brachychiton, Brahea, Brugmansia, Buddleja, Camellia, Castanea, Cedrus, Cephalotaxus, Cercis, Chamaecyparis, Cinnamomum, Cordyline, Cryptomeria, Cupressus, Cyathea, Dicksonia (tree fern), Diospyros, Dracaena, Encephalartos (cycad), Erica, Eucalyptus, Fagus, Ficus, Fraxinus, Ginkgo, Howea, Hypericum, Ilex, Jubea, Juniperus, Laurus, Livistona, Magnolia, Mahonia, Metrosideros, Monstera, Myrtus, Nerium, Olea, Osmanthus, Persea, Phoenix, Pinus, PIstacia, Pittosporum, Platanus, Podocarpus, Populus, Prunus, Pyracantha, Quercus, Rhododendron, Salix, Schinus, Sequoia, Sorbus, Strelitzia, Syzygium, Taxodium, Thuja, Tilia, Trachycarpus, Tsuga, Ulmus, Viburnum, Washingtonia, Wisteria, Yucca, Zelkova. </blockquote><br /><br />These plants come from all over the world and give a sub-tropical feel to Sintra. We can judge our own interest in plants by how many pictures of plants we are moved to take when visiting a place. Over our three days in Sintra, we took a lot of photos of plants because the specimens, the forms, the colors were so interesting. <br /><br />The second major ah-ha moment of why this trip felt so fresh for us, were the patterns we saw. Here, we mean patterns in architecture, and we include decoration with that. Portuguese architecture is characterized by a variety of styles, such as Romanesque, Gothic, Manueline, Baroque, and Modern. Sintra is famous for its 19th-century European Romanticist architecture, historic estates and villas, gardens, and royal palaces and castles. There is a pastiche of styles from the rich, the royal, and the romantics, drawn to the area for its beauty and eager to make real their ideas of European Romantic architecture. Today, the historical center of the Vila de Sintra is classified as a <a href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/723">UNESCO World Heritage Site.</a> <br /><br />European romantic architecture is a style of architecture that emerged in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, inspired by the artistic and literary movements of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism">Romantic era</a>. It is characterized by a variety of forms, materials, and colors, often influenced by local traditions and landscapes. Some of the features of European romantic architecture include asymmetrical shapes, curved lines, ornamental details, towers, spires, domes, arches, and Gothic elements. The influence of the Moors – who ruled over Portugal for centuries – also plays a significant part in the architecture and decoration of some of the palaces. <br /><br />In the Palace of Monserrate, we saw a reference to the book “Grammar of Ornament” by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Jones_(architect)">Owen Jones</a> (1809 – 1874), a British architect. The book, first published in 1856, shows ornamental designs and patterns from vastly different eras, places, and cultures, including Assyrian, Greek, Byzantine, Turkish, Chinese, Celtic, Medieval, Islamic, and Renaissance. Jones wanted to improve the taste of contemporary designers by revealing the universal design principles that lay behind all historical ornamentation. It wouldn’t be a wild guess (and if I remember we saw explicit references of this) to say that Owen’s book informed the rebuilding of Monserrate in the second half of the 18th century by its new owner, the British merchant and art collector, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Cook,_1st_Viscount_of_Monserrate">Francis Cook</a> (1817 – 1901). <br /><br />The romantic sensibility is also on full display at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalet_and_Garden_of_the_Countess_of_Edla">Chalet of the Countess of Edla</a> (in the Pena Palace Park), built between 1864 and 1869.<br /><br />Less Romantic but equally fascinating is the Sintra National Palace. We include a mosaic of tile patterns we saw in the Sintra National Palace. The colors and patterns – admittedly not a huge selection – were beautiful to look at. <br /><br />The two large cone structures of the Sintra National Palace are chimneys. The kitchen was the heart of the palace and at times were in full production to feed many guests. The tall chimneys stand above the rooflines to maximize airflow over the openings. <div><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com0Sintra, Portugal38.8029127 -9.381649510.492678863821155 -44.5378995 67.113146536178846 25.7746005tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047951599825887753.post-51869415360166514452023-11-16T20:10:00.001+01:002024-01-10T17:54:55.868+01:00Let’s Do the Pamukkale<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnMbdAxYLUeTMmCi439YSXMgztLa9WCoq9pGZI1oWLTHNs_jTOHgI7BufQzBBZJEp1_4aCUekl-6wbCVfKgFaRvNmLZwI-zBacEjr5meRxw6WvbPJRuXv4NgLYoqbpDGdwFtyc6_Z9bLU9SrlYgtbaJC37dDx9UjiBWJBZx363ny2hVNaItUmOKUUSEw/s4032/Pamukkale%20-%20a%20balloon%20over%20the%20travertine%20terraces.jpg"><img alt="Pamukkale - a balloon over the travertine terraces" border="0" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnMbdAxYLUeTMmCi439YSXMgztLa9WCoq9pGZI1oWLTHNs_jTOHgI7BufQzBBZJEp1_4aCUekl-6wbCVfKgFaRvNmLZwI-zBacEjr5meRxw6WvbPJRuXv4NgLYoqbpDGdwFtyc6_Z9bLU9SrlYgtbaJC37dDx9UjiBWJBZx363ny2hVNaItUmOKUUSEw/w192-h144/Pamukkale%20-%20a%20balloon%20over%20the%20travertine%20terraces.jpg" title="Pamukkale - a balloon over the travertine terraces" width="192" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7561jPyP95IGdGDgg0GjjIaHX9PQwr-HGMqrQEuBjosmFwZK54gozci_I0cjykIU09iZ9hMXOsyHRaGOWXQXZfEIi_GhzZ-0F2wN6TwPd8jnzgI63OonAj3J4Tv7odv2sWfifs-6a2mx3WHOCJpdh1s0wgT0sXT4knclSqPfKG1t-ZX9cODRjc7Ygcw/s4032/Pamukkale%20-%20walking%20up%20the%20travertine%20terraces.jpg"><img alt="Pamukkale - walking up the travertine terraces" border="0" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7561jPyP95IGdGDgg0GjjIaHX9PQwr-HGMqrQEuBjosmFwZK54gozci_I0cjykIU09iZ9hMXOsyHRaGOWXQXZfEIi_GhzZ-0F2wN6TwPd8jnzgI63OonAj3J4Tv7odv2sWfifs-6a2mx3WHOCJpdh1s0wgT0sXT4knclSqPfKG1t-ZX9cODRjc7Ygcw/w192-h144/Pamukkale%20-%20walking%20up%20the%20travertine%20terraces.jpg" title="Pamukkale - walking up the travertine terraces" width="192" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE4fW8JR0QslpsHGqicJ4fIZzIUcTe_kShsXU_HkrmgcqMFgHcS8pbWOme5laEA8pIQtBYvmyk6aykh23O02cI2EjjP5uIDDQ0zYhbJPgLWpaFx-zNceU1g8NNYIimJ-F-oMFz0cj1Dse9-3JQYlxJFiQbmhIKLbq0b3yBPcjLpaCX65oRiC8_MdtQZA/s4032/Hierapolis%20roman%20theater%201.jpg"><img alt="Hierapolis roman theater" border="0" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE4fW8JR0QslpsHGqicJ4fIZzIUcTe_kShsXU_HkrmgcqMFgHcS8pbWOme5laEA8pIQtBYvmyk6aykh23O02cI2EjjP5uIDDQ0zYhbJPgLWpaFx-zNceU1g8NNYIimJ-F-oMFz0cj1Dse9-3JQYlxJFiQbmhIKLbq0b3yBPcjLpaCX65oRiC8_MdtQZA/w191-h144/Hierapolis%20roman%20theater%201.jpg" title="Hierapolis roman theater" width="191" /></a><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: Pamukkale - a balloon over the travertine terraces.<br />Center: Pamukkale - walking up the travertine terraces.<br />Right: Hierapolis roman theater at Pamukkale.<br /></span></b><div><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamukkale">Pamukkale</a> sounds like an exotic dance, but it’s not. It’s a <a href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/485/">Unesco site</a> in southwestern Turkey that we visited recently. <br /><br />First, how do you pronounce the name? Accent is on the MUK as in Pa-MUK-kale. Second, what does it mean? It means “cotton castle” because of the white travertine terraces found there caused by deposits of calcium carbonate coming from mineral water in the hot springs. Third, you are probably wondering if it’s worth a visit. We can say yes, it is even if the hotels and eating options there are second rate (will explain below). Fourth: when people say Pamukkale, the usually mean the travertine terraces and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierapolis">Hierapolis</a>, the ancient city build at the edge of the travertine terraces. In many ways, Hierapolis is much more impressive, but it takes a little work to discover that. <br /><br />Visiting this strange outpost was the last thing we did on our 18 days in Turkey. For more information, see the post <a href="https://blog.travelmarx.com/2023/11/18-days-in-turkey-some-observations.html"><i>18 days in Turkey – Some Observations</i></a>. <br /><br />In the planning stages of the trip, finding interesting lodgings in Pamukkale was harder than in other places we stayed on the trip. We are not fussy or big spenders but even for us the choices were pretty slim. Once there eating options seemed okay, not exciting. Okay, that bit of complaining aside, the place was worth visiting. <br /><br /><br />Our Pamukkale itinerary was this:<div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>We stayed two nights in Pamukkale.</li><li>On the way to Pamukkale (day 1), we stopped at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodisias">Aphrodisias</a> – a bit out of the way – but one our best Turkey stops in terms of exploring ruins. There were few people, and the site was impressive.</li><li>The next day (day 2), we spent it all (about 8 hours) visiting the Pamukkale “site”, which includes the eye-catching travertine terraces and Hierapolis, up and behind the blinding white.</li><li>The next day (day 3), we left for Izmir airport but first stopped at the ancient city of Laodicea (just a few minutes from Pamukkale) and very much worth it too.</li></ul><div>Here’s how we visited Pamukkale during our day there:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Since we were staying in Pamukkale, we walked to the town entrance/lower gate (<a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/RtiRv3TdZaKtSYKe6">here</a>). We took off our shoes and started walking.</li><li>When we were there the pools maybe came up to our knees at most, and it wasn’t warm water.</li><ul><li>But as you can see in one photo there are other dry pools. We suspect – and there was ample evidence given all the water piping – that they redirect water around so the place changes over time.</li></ul><li>We walked “up” the travertine terraces. Most people don’t do this. And we did it relatively early in the day so there were few people.</li><li>As you climb – which isn’t that hard to do or that bad for your feet – you eventually reach a point where you will likely find a lot more people. This is where most people experience the travertine terraces. At this point there is an observation deck with benches. Many visitors only venture from here a little way downhill.</li><li>All visitors arriving in bus end up at this observation point – it seems.</li><ul><li>They entered from either the Pamukkale south gate (<a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/WDCcAuozrCqtmBUX8">here</a>, which is more east) or the Pamukkale north gate (<a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/9T85CUD8BtJtrHXC6">here</a>, and then take a ride down).</li></ul><li>After passing through a throng of people just below the observation deck, we put our shoes back on and started walking roughly north following the top of the travertine terraces and ridge of the mountain until we reached the Necropolis of Hierapolis. Pretty quickly, we were alone again. Perfect!</li><li>From there our path through Hierapolis was a bit like a pinball: we explored what looked interesting to us and sometimes doubled back. (See image in the post with tracks.)</li><li>Eventually, we ended up – downhill – at the theater and the ploutonion.</li><li>We grabbed a very late lunch at a concession near the museum and then went to the museum (a little disappointing).</li><li>We made our way to the south (again, east) gate and thought about exiting there but the walk back to town from there wasn’t that interesting along a road. We couldn’t see a trail that would work. (There is probably a bus or taxi, but we didn’t want that.)</li><li>So, we went back to the observation deck above the travertine terraces, took off our shoes and walked back down the terraces, enjoying them a second time.</li></ul></div></div>Hike stats:<div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Duration: 6 hours</li><li>Elevation: 264 m</li><li>Length: 15.6 km</li></ul><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXlOtB0_x4jowFFo5X7OkjxSPNWsQU7F-aNhLbTzCY2q9NxatqF3GM61ydDV9WqaldO_hTMBUbazGKrrt2_jtTXVk_0Zrg1HNGZDtgUlLfQPoTN7N-bC2L_D97QLYinS6GH_khmKYzfWSSysE-xqv9HgNEAOw922WwYz-vilFebVRRhy_OTRXBCdxR9A/s2048/Tracks%20through%20Pamukkale.jpg"><img alt="Tracks through Pamukkale" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXlOtB0_x4jowFFo5X7OkjxSPNWsQU7F-aNhLbTzCY2q9NxatqF3GM61ydDV9WqaldO_hTMBUbazGKrrt2_jtTXVk_0Zrg1HNGZDtgUlLfQPoTN7N-bC2L_D97QLYinS6GH_khmKYzfWSSysE-xqv9HgNEAOw922WwYz-vilFebVRRhy_OTRXBCdxR9A/w93-h200/Tracks%20through%20Pamukkale.jpg" title="Tracks through Pamukkale" width="93" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUiW2A9UXeDPwvLYVFsSUl0jvF003mnIPb8vBQHPiWCtd5NuNQ-n2B3qDbY79DkW31FY2yLZWFKJ35GlZgTBnaCntqWsLj_Or1UEkGyAVbYYuvLk9dMeYyMKhnsjKOz8_E-H5LMFl4NQBphxSYAfr89oIKNGhMmHwbp1lOtkGAhLjE4G3cypHAfLf-NA/s4032/Hierapolis%20-%20Frontius%20Gate.jpg"><img alt="Hierapolis - Frontius Gate" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUiW2A9UXeDPwvLYVFsSUl0jvF003mnIPb8vBQHPiWCtd5NuNQ-n2B3qDbY79DkW31FY2yLZWFKJ35GlZgTBnaCntqWsLj_Or1UEkGyAVbYYuvLk9dMeYyMKhnsjKOz8_E-H5LMFl4NQBphxSYAfr89oIKNGhMmHwbp1lOtkGAhLjE4G3cypHAfLf-NA/w150-h200/Hierapolis%20-%20Frontius%20Gate.jpg" title="Hierapolis - Frontius Gate" width="150" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKMLI6USTV5Vf5LNGbigd5cA9hZde3cZp5sCrxiDolPHcPfz6It5lydMATLwjgr926oFIVYvVwdjT5-WtCKLV6HghNJ9rW0Aa4na6DZIFdT3l7j-kcFpgCkcc8jxgArkHTDwONW0wfFQT9lHN1G__-fxnh9KAM8w857iXPXr0Wru6g0DOz-gLLY3gACg/s4032/Hierapolis%20-%20Latrine%20near%20Frontius%20Gate.jpg"><img alt="Hierapolis - Latrine near Frontius Gate" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKMLI6USTV5Vf5LNGbigd5cA9hZde3cZp5sCrxiDolPHcPfz6It5lydMATLwjgr926oFIVYvVwdjT5-WtCKLV6HghNJ9rW0Aa4na6DZIFdT3l7j-kcFpgCkcc8jxgArkHTDwONW0wfFQT9lHN1G__-fxnh9KAM8w857iXPXr0Wru6g0DOz-gLLY3gACg/w268-h200/Hierapolis%20-%20Latrine%20near%20Frontius%20Gate.jpg" title="Hierapolis - Latrine near Frontius Gate" width="268" /></a></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: Our walking tracks through Pamukkale/Hierapolis - on our day spent exploring.<br />Center: Hierapolis - Frontius Gate.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Right: Hierapolis - Latrine near Frontius Gate.</span></b></div><div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdruLL1KodBkDHoyw-RWbbFC-HcsYlIoQzfmiTHQXFzToN6H9_FA5VcKWJPPbEzx8RFErbTB_m_zna_5Oylqixky0OmFfozQChygjD-v-6MnVZMl3HTobbe8M5JjX6-LoEwhSaIKNlxOfAhM_dO7z9ydI_y-TeCQCplOnmhDcDryR6pQzCHKWF3RcB7w/s4032/Hierapolis%20roman%20theater%202.jpg"><img alt="Hierapolis roman theater" border="0" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdruLL1KodBkDHoyw-RWbbFC-HcsYlIoQzfmiTHQXFzToN6H9_FA5VcKWJPPbEzx8RFErbTB_m_zna_5Oylqixky0OmFfozQChygjD-v-6MnVZMl3HTobbe8M5JjX6-LoEwhSaIKNlxOfAhM_dO7z9ydI_y-TeCQCplOnmhDcDryR6pQzCHKWF3RcB7w/w191-h144/Hierapolis%20roman%20theater%202.jpg" title="Hierapolis roman theater" width="191" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitZqwkTrgBy4Iwe9wKhIF7FTW2sFLg5qkx9-Vf8uo14Wp4fr2O43xFGnRo-VnOHIN3h0wcAACXzfMpsxAozMtPbvxqAZC_hnLJojAgFkRAJIhu3ZVYzuaZiEKuTPT3oUgixS0uZoWLl2FLzol4KEpoc0TidEs4Up02wsXEww83Pc5Cxlvyq0h6-M84hA/s4032/View%20back%20over%20Hierapolis%20from%20a%20high%20point%20with%20white%20travertine%20in%20the%20distance.jpg"><img alt="View back over Hierapolis from a high point with white travertine in the distance" border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitZqwkTrgBy4Iwe9wKhIF7FTW2sFLg5qkx9-Vf8uo14Wp4fr2O43xFGnRo-VnOHIN3h0wcAACXzfMpsxAozMtPbvxqAZC_hnLJojAgFkRAJIhu3ZVYzuaZiEKuTPT3oUgixS0uZoWLl2FLzol4KEpoc0TidEs4Up02wsXEww83Pc5Cxlvyq0h6-M84hA/w191-h143/View%20back%20over%20Hierapolis%20from%20a%20high%20point%20with%20white%20travertine%20in%20the%20distance.jpg" title="View back over Hierapolis from a high point with white travertine in the distance" width="191" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbg8l4fSBGstWn_qyQKtjpP4_wOyOyts7szUOlsY8BtjJXIY1D-eIEXK1mclvXiOybttOvPnytPWAKi0-3qQqAz2fY2UgoBYTRyqoGbYL3WnoCctkZwM3X2YW-9bRhxcwQvzWtXIkbU_DT3X-0JEkwXETgcZiR3cN84rxyXWFpUyBjDJ8EhN_kWPehRw/s4032/Hierapolis%20-%20trees%20mark%20where%20agora%20was.jpg"><img alt="Hierapolis - trees mark where agora was" border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbg8l4fSBGstWn_qyQKtjpP4_wOyOyts7szUOlsY8BtjJXIY1D-eIEXK1mclvXiOybttOvPnytPWAKi0-3qQqAz2fY2UgoBYTRyqoGbYL3WnoCctkZwM3X2YW-9bRhxcwQvzWtXIkbU_DT3X-0JEkwXETgcZiR3cN84rxyXWFpUyBjDJ8EhN_kWPehRw/w192-h143/Hierapolis%20-%20trees%20mark%20where%20agora%20was.jpg" title="Hierapolis - trees mark where agora was" width="192" /></a></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: Hierapolis roman theater at Pamukkale.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Center: View back over Hierapolis from a high point with white travertine in the distance.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Right: Hierapolis - trees mark where the agora was.<br /></span></b><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPj1oGnU-AChx0imChyphenhyphent_APGbdyq8wHJ2ILvQuZNLkv7H5Kkg5y2RcMjsUCHCoE67D-f7Z3EZXwBNVSy4NpZAXN2F_uqBi6NzxtFxh7hW86IK7-qicMD45RuzKeeZxyUTNi_Dfct6o4PpanJnRrJqsJn8TZ9-aXMg3HSKH0FQAZBLHhQiZRNwD0KYRg/s4032/Pamukkale%20-%20a%20balloon%20swalled%20by%20travertine.jpg"><img alt="Pamukkale - a balloon swallowed by travertine" border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPj1oGnU-AChx0imChyphenhyphent_APGbdyq8wHJ2ILvQuZNLkv7H5Kkg5y2RcMjsUCHCoE67D-f7Z3EZXwBNVSy4NpZAXN2F_uqBi6NzxtFxh7hW86IK7-qicMD45RuzKeeZxyUTNi_Dfct6o4PpanJnRrJqsJn8TZ9-aXMg3HSKH0FQAZBLHhQiZRNwD0KYRg/w191-h143/Pamukkale%20-%20a%20balloon%20swalled%20by%20travertine.jpg" title="Pamukkale - a balloon swallowed by travertine" width="191" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM-_wahqgW1m4o8O4IHU3XJdCJoLjQweDD7nAXHPPlrcmG0I-2oN8Y401Bmay_LH-8tqRrliAcFq4PvDzqflOYdiRF6IQaBTuZKQhpCSlS0lQTGaTfPKCZsQuqofNTKHzslfg57Y32iTOSUqagP4_SQDrK9R1OO84XSBlpkSobH7VqQeEMuEwyPjUpYQ/s4032/Pamukkale%20-%20a%20boardwalk%20takes%20you%20along%20the%20ridge%20of%20the%20terraces.jpg"><img alt="Pamukkale - a boardwalk takes you along the ridge of the terraces" border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM-_wahqgW1m4o8O4IHU3XJdCJoLjQweDD7nAXHPPlrcmG0I-2oN8Y401Bmay_LH-8tqRrliAcFq4PvDzqflOYdiRF6IQaBTuZKQhpCSlS0lQTGaTfPKCZsQuqofNTKHzslfg57Y32iTOSUqagP4_SQDrK9R1OO84XSBlpkSobH7VqQeEMuEwyPjUpYQ/w191-h143/Pamukkale%20-%20a%20boardwalk%20takes%20you%20along%20the%20ridge%20of%20the%20terraces.jpg" title="Pamukkale - a boardwalk takes you along the ridge of the terraces" width="191" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXxwdKzju9j9s8u8ejL70O0tOhyEa2VRCqaEOnMQ1LC539LqBk8YA1Kg42BHbvkhLgZNIhTFkG426-h3_xzB_of3lbPRTeL_7s8qMTiYeSbt8v_mxj1FF21YL3jTkg30OturY0DmP_Ykiy4uvpFDHzYPtvZQ7xVEkcXwz8RGz7-TAPjKauVw6vQrlwZA/s4032/Pamukkale%20-%20a%20view%20of%20the%20walk%20from%20the%20lower%20entrance%20up%20and%20idea%20of%20dry%20pools.jpg"><img alt="Pamukkale - a view of the walk from the lower entrance up and idea of dry pools" border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXxwdKzju9j9s8u8ejL70O0tOhyEa2VRCqaEOnMQ1LC539LqBk8YA1Kg42BHbvkhLgZNIhTFkG426-h3_xzB_of3lbPRTeL_7s8qMTiYeSbt8v_mxj1FF21YL3jTkg30OturY0DmP_Ykiy4uvpFDHzYPtvZQ7xVEkcXwz8RGz7-TAPjKauVw6vQrlwZA/w191-h143/Pamukkale%20-%20a%20view%20of%20the%20walk%20from%20the%20lower%20entrance%20up%20and%20idea%20of%20dry%20pools.jpg" title="Pamukkale - a view of the walk from the lower entrance up and idea of dry pools" width="191" /></a></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: Pamukkale - a balloon lowers into the travertine terraces.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Center: Pamukkale - a boardwalk takes you along the ridge of the travertine terraces.<br />Right: Pamukkale - a view of the walk from the lower entrance up and idea of dry pools.<br /></span></b><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0i7E5FZ8RUXtTH0_gRObLUpe5rRoDl-kABhTBIETJTTQRt_jI67YHAoSF9h3scsZQaFwXlN3k55Pf7vZsFehdYMBKBnIkxR0Gz48JlIIUxT5-aAzFOfMt12FQoiqUA5UxeljKQ7gl0ypIYrisC5KwAGdkhoBf-cYK8cdJWv5d1j7depkbpLvBEnFq7w/s4032/Pamukkale%20-%20a%20view%20showing%20the%20top%20observation%20point%20and%20the%20crowd%20of%20people.jpg"><img alt="Pamukkale - a view showing the top observation point and the crowd of people" border="0" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0i7E5FZ8RUXtTH0_gRObLUpe5rRoDl-kABhTBIETJTTQRt_jI67YHAoSF9h3scsZQaFwXlN3k55Pf7vZsFehdYMBKBnIkxR0Gz48JlIIUxT5-aAzFOfMt12FQoiqUA5UxeljKQ7gl0ypIYrisC5KwAGdkhoBf-cYK8cdJWv5d1j7depkbpLvBEnFq7w/w192-h144/Pamukkale%20-%20a%20view%20showing%20the%20top%20observation%20point%20and%20the%20crowd%20of%20people.jpg" title="Pamukkale - a view showing the top observation point and the crowd of people" width="192" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMI8PRABbNWQayVPC6YX3SIwR7_YQ1aXPsYaGaLs6BR53vOLpwT36KVSmcuby41w_BrTvvzyaeG97v-rv8KiBAR-o3m6S0LeP2qmUJMoczLkX1zmEBIXJ7UdWkCbnsmKNpHkwCtwhFt9MzHsjv0Tv3gHq1amzTV8mbsmKB2MpQ5P63CUZ3Zhk6OSoTVg/s4032/Pamukkale%20-%20Travertine%20Terraces%20-%20lots%20of%20posing%20near%20the%20observation%20deck.jpg"><img alt="Pamukkale - Travertine Terraces - lots of posing near the observation deck" border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMI8PRABbNWQayVPC6YX3SIwR7_YQ1aXPsYaGaLs6BR53vOLpwT36KVSmcuby41w_BrTvvzyaeG97v-rv8KiBAR-o3m6S0LeP2qmUJMoczLkX1zmEBIXJ7UdWkCbnsmKNpHkwCtwhFt9MzHsjv0Tv3gHq1amzTV8mbsmKB2MpQ5P63CUZ3Zhk6OSoTVg/w191-h143/Pamukkale%20-%20Travertine%20Terraces%20-%20lots%20of%20posing%20near%20the%20observation%20deck.jpg" title="Pamukkale - Travertine Terraces - lots of posing near the observation deck" width="191" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv4cKRrEuCRPtVR3sZzFNmfQ57_TMQFc0N8ds3lrFKG6lG5BgSY7UtrYfAQ3XTnw8F4Z5wbwwavkj7gDp2lS-uttw7s9sq5Rs2FwnA89KFNHRyzh2rITUxGwdpds1aGhs-lUQSO1lC_1_qyQZRz9aL3X1Sf1n_NnkeTpgsF6OBqgIEfFDwAC62O0o1nw/s4032/Pamukkale%20-%20walking%20away%20from%20the%20crowded%20spots%20you%20can%20find%20other%20white%20travertine%20to%20photograph.jpg"><img alt="Pamukkale - walking away from the crowded spots you can find other white travertine to photograph" border="0" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv4cKRrEuCRPtVR3sZzFNmfQ57_TMQFc0N8ds3lrFKG6lG5BgSY7UtrYfAQ3XTnw8F4Z5wbwwavkj7gDp2lS-uttw7s9sq5Rs2FwnA89KFNHRyzh2rITUxGwdpds1aGhs-lUQSO1lC_1_qyQZRz9aL3X1Sf1n_NnkeTpgsF6OBqgIEfFDwAC62O0o1nw/w189-h142/Pamukkale%20-%20walking%20away%20from%20the%20crowded%20spots%20you%20can%20find%20other%20white%20travertine%20to%20photograph.jpg" title="Pamukkale - walking away from the crowded spots you can find other white travertine to photograph" width="189" /></a></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Left: Pamukkale - a view showing the top observation point and the crowd of people.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Center: Pamukkale - travertine terraces - lots of posing near the observation deck.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Right: Pamukkale - walking away from the crowded spots you can find other white travertine to photograph.</span></b><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div></div></div>TravelMarxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03225272761579994072noreply@blogger.com0Pamukkale, 20190 Pamukkale/Denizli, Türkiye37.9136957 29.11870979.6034618638211526 -6.0375403 66.223929536178844 64.2749597