Back to ROMA / FRASCATI.
We left Lucca to go back to Frascati first and then Rome where we stayed several nights.
On our way between 2 cities, meaning we had all our luggage in the car, our laptop and tablet and purse (luckily quite empty) were stolen from the car in Ostia while we were on the beach for one - only one - hour. No passports nor credit cards were gone, but the annoyance of losing the computer, having to change passwords, go to the store buy another one, go back the next day as it was not working will be rememberd. But well, there are worse things in life and this was part of the learning experience. However, now I cannot download any picture from my camera any more (and certainly not via Google any more as I did the last times (try that with a mini tablet !!) and will take pictures with the new tablet hoping I can download them easily in this blog. Also, this is an Italian keyboard ..... a bit different from the one I am used to use.
We still love Rome and the city of Rome itself is now also a contender.
Next part of the quest , Sanremo.
Seems adding pictures is not possible today, I will try further and update this article when I will have understood how it works (good luck!!).
YESSSSSS I FOUND A DESKTOP AND COULD ADD PICTURES, HOURAH.
E' stata un successo l'inaugurazione delle "Officine Bocelli", lo spazio dalle molteplici attività che Andrea Bocelli e la sua famiglia hanno deciso di far nascere a Lajatico, proprio sulle terre dove i suoi nonni hanno vissuto e lavorato per quattro generazioni.
ARTICLE ECRIT SANS ACCENTS
Nous avons quitte Lucca pour revenir sur Frascati d'abord et Rome ensuite, que nous ajoutons d' ailleurs la liste des demi-finalistes. Quelle belle ville.
Mais voila que nous avons aussi vecu notre premier contretemps. En nous rendant de Anzio a Rome nous avons decide de passer une heure sur la plage de Ostia. Mauvaise decision car en retournant a la voiture des voleurs y avaient pris notre laptop, la petite tablette (qui fonctionaait mal donc bien fait pour eux) ainsi que un sac a mains qui ne contenait que des broutilles (encore bien fait pour eux !!).
Nous sommes alles au bureau des Carabinieri mais il y avait une file et on n' avait pas envie d' attendre. Je me suis rendue le lendemain au bureau dans Rome, celui avoisinant notre hotel, le bureau de Cacamo que je nomme a cause de la resonance rigolote. Apres avoir pris le cafe avec un des commissaires (ou brigadiers, je ne sais pas) la deposition fut prise par un jeune offcier. Heureusement que nous parlons italien.
On nous a bien dit que ces voleurs ne sont interesses QUE par la revente, ils remettent a neuf l' ordi afin de le revendre et ne sont pas interesses par mots de passe ni informations personnelles. Ouf !!!
Tout de meme, cette mesaventure nous a coute le lendemain et le jour suivant de nombreuses heures perdues a acheter un petit laptop, le ramener, acheter a la place un mini i`pad et un grand clavier independant qui en fait parfois a sa tete. Je ne me voyais pas ecrire de courriels ni surtout les articles pour ce blog sur le clavier rikiki d' une tablette. Mais ... il y a des incompatibilites techniques que meme un technicien d un 3e magasin ne put resoudre. Donc, dorenavant, vous verrez dans le texte en francais des choses tant soit peu bizarres, svp ne m' en tenez pas rigueur.
Quand aux photos, aucune idee comment les ajouter a ce texte, on va voir dans quelques minutes si cela fonctionne ou non.
Nous avons marche de nombreux kilometres dans la Ville Eternelle sous un soleil implacable mais surtout une humidite digne de Buenos Aires. Il fallait nous voir racler les murs a l' ombre comme dans les dessins animes.
L' etape suivante est Sanremo ou nous partons en train.
Suite au prochain numero.
J'AI TROUVE UN ORDINATEUR QUI ME PERMET DE TELECHARGER LES PHOTOS, PROFITONS-EN.
Do NOT take pictures !
C'est clair, non? PAS de photos.
Medici fortress, 1342, is nowadays the prison.
Une prison dans un ancient palais episcopal. On parfait justement de culture.
We left Lucca to go back to Frascati first and then Rome where we stayed several nights.
On our way between 2 cities, meaning we had all our luggage in the car, our laptop and tablet and purse (luckily quite empty) were stolen from the car in Ostia while we were on the beach for one - only one - hour. No passports nor credit cards were gone, but the annoyance of losing the computer, having to change passwords, go to the store buy another one, go back the next day as it was not working will be rememberd. But well, there are worse things in life and this was part of the learning experience. However, now I cannot download any picture from my camera any more (and certainly not via Google any more as I did the last times (try that with a mini tablet !!) and will take pictures with the new tablet hoping I can download them easily in this blog. Also, this is an Italian keyboard ..... a bit different from the one I am used to use.
We still love Rome and the city of Rome itself is now also a contender.
Next part of the quest , Sanremo.
Seems adding pictures is not possible today, I will try further and update this article when I will have understood how it works (good luck!!).
YESSSSSS I FOUND A DESKTOP AND COULD ADD PICTURES, HOURAH.
OFFICINE BOCELLI, Lajatico.
Andrea Bocelli's hometown and store of the family.
Nous n'en avions aucune idee mais sommes passes pile devant le magasin de la famille Bocelli; nous nous y sommes evidemment arretes et en avons profite pour acheter quelques produits locaux afin de nous sustenir.
ARTICLE ECRIT SANS ACCENTS
Nous avons quitte Lucca pour revenir sur Frascati d'abord et Rome ensuite, que nous ajoutons d' ailleurs la liste des demi-finalistes. Quelle belle ville.
Mais voila que nous avons aussi vecu notre premier contretemps. En nous rendant de Anzio a Rome nous avons decide de passer une heure sur la plage de Ostia. Mauvaise decision car en retournant a la voiture des voleurs y avaient pris notre laptop, la petite tablette (qui fonctionaait mal donc bien fait pour eux) ainsi que un sac a mains qui ne contenait que des broutilles (encore bien fait pour eux !!).
Nous sommes alles au bureau des Carabinieri mais il y avait une file et on n' avait pas envie d' attendre. Je me suis rendue le lendemain au bureau dans Rome, celui avoisinant notre hotel, le bureau de Cacamo que je nomme a cause de la resonance rigolote. Apres avoir pris le cafe avec un des commissaires (ou brigadiers, je ne sais pas) la deposition fut prise par un jeune offcier. Heureusement que nous parlons italien.
On nous a bien dit que ces voleurs ne sont interesses QUE par la revente, ils remettent a neuf l' ordi afin de le revendre et ne sont pas interesses par mots de passe ni informations personnelles. Ouf !!!
Tout de meme, cette mesaventure nous a coute le lendemain et le jour suivant de nombreuses heures perdues a acheter un petit laptop, le ramener, acheter a la place un mini i`pad et un grand clavier independant qui en fait parfois a sa tete. Je ne me voyais pas ecrire de courriels ni surtout les articles pour ce blog sur le clavier rikiki d' une tablette. Mais ... il y a des incompatibilites techniques que meme un technicien d un 3e magasin ne put resoudre. Donc, dorenavant, vous verrez dans le texte en francais des choses tant soit peu bizarres, svp ne m' en tenez pas rigueur.
Quand aux photos, aucune idee comment les ajouter a ce texte, on va voir dans quelques minutes si cela fonctionne ou non.
Nous avons marche de nombreux kilometres dans la Ville Eternelle sous un soleil implacable mais surtout une humidite digne de Buenos Aires. Il fallait nous voir racler les murs a l' ombre comme dans les dessins animes.
L' etape suivante est Sanremo ou nous partons en train.
Suite au prochain numero.
J'AI TROUVE UN ORDINATEUR QUI ME PERMET DE TELECHARGER LES PHOTOS, PROFITONS-EN.
Poffertjes !!!!!!!
VOLTERRA "Street Food"
Even the Italians start to include more english words in daily life as indeed, the official name of this fest is Street Food.
Viva Argentina ... un as ado.
VOLTERRA
Leve Belgie, natuurlijk, Belgisch bier.
Still VOLTERRA.
Vista from the Etruscan city of VOLTERRA.
Bella Italia.
Pas now meilleures tetes donc gardons le plus petit format.
Not at our best, but at least here we are (selfie without stick and without even a smartphone, the old way)
La prison de Volterra compte une troupe de theatre, la Compagnie de la Forteresse.
Italian prisons use art as rehabilitation. Volterra's one is even high security. Nevertheles, there is a theatre company.
Do NOT take pictures !
C'est clair, non? PAS de photos.
Medici fortress, 1342, is nowadays the prison.
Une prison dans un ancient palais episcopal. On parfait justement de culture.
Sulla Piazza dei Priori, the oldest town hall of Tuscany, 1210. It is said to have served as example for the one in Florence.
Cet edifice datant de 1210 a servi de modele pour le palais de Florence.
For some, these are just stupid stones, but for others this is a while world, a whole area, people building the wall, people living amidst them, just yesteryear.
Tout un monde pour qui sait l'imaginer
(wouaw, comme c'est bien dit, parfois je m'epate moi-meme ... mais come on frole un domaine qui m'est cher - l'archeologie - je me lache)
Encore une bonne idea d'utilisation de palettes !
If you have been following this blog for some time, you maybe remember that I love what Italians do with palets, they are "ze king of ze palettes".
GELATO !
D'apres un guide, la meilleure gelateria du coin ... mwouais, le proprio a du payer un matabish a quelqu'un.
Do not believe Tripadvisor etc, their best is not necessarily our best. It was good (Italian ice cream is always good!) but not to be number one according to Philip who knows a lot about the gelati.
Enel Green Power S.p.A. è una multinational italians .... che si occupa della produzione di energia elettrica derivata da fonti rinnovabili quali solare, geotermico,eolico, idroelettrico e biomasse.[1][4]
AU detour d'un chemin nous sommes tombes sur ce paysage inattendu, un serpent sans fin qui se contortionne a travers la campagne. Heureusement qu'il s'agit d'energie renouvelable , ouf !
Toutes les petites lignes brilliantes font part de ce serpent.
Renewable energy in the middle of Tuscany.
All the shiny little lines you see on (merely) the right of the picture are part of this long pipeline.
ANZIO
Beach Head War Cemetery
22 Jan 1944, debarquement a Anzio (il n'y a pas eu que la Normandie)
Pour plus d'info en francais :
Historical Information
On 3 September 1943 the Allies invaded the Italian mainland, the invasion coinciding with an armistice made with the Italians who then re-entered the war on the Allied side.
Progress through southern Italy was rapid despite stiff resistance, but by the end of October, the Allies were facing the German winter defensive position known as the Gustav Line, which stretched from the river Garigliano in the west to the Sangro in the east. Initial attempts to breach the western end of the line were unsuccessful. Operations in January 1944 landed troops behind the German lines at Anzio, but defences were well organised, and a breakthrough was not actually achieved until May.
The site of the cemetery originally lay close to a casualty clearing station. Burials were made direct from the battlefield after the landings at Anzio and later, after the Army had moved forward, many graves were brought in from the surrounding country.
Beach Head War Cemetery contains 2,316 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 295 of them unidentified. There is also one First World War burial which was brought into the cemetery from Chiete Communal Cemetery near Rome.
The cemetery was designed by Louis de Soissons.
Progress through southern Italy was rapid despite stiff resistance, but by the end of October, the Allies were facing the German winter defensive position known as the Gustav Line, which stretched from the river Garigliano in the west to the Sangro in the east. Initial attempts to breach the western end of the line were unsuccessful. Operations in January 1944 landed troops behind the German lines at Anzio, but defences were well organised, and a breakthrough was not actually achieved until May.
The site of the cemetery originally lay close to a casualty clearing station. Burials were made direct from the battlefield after the landings at Anzio and later, after the Army had moved forward, many graves were brought in from the surrounding country.
Beach Head War Cemetery contains 2,316 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 295 of them unidentified. There is also one First World War burial which was brought into the cemetery from Chiete Communal Cemetery near Rome.
The cemetery was designed by Louis de Soissons.
ANZIO BEACH.
ANZIO BEACH
Impressionnant de se baigner parmi les ruines de la maison de NERON
Bon, quand on dit "maison" ... il faut relativer.
How would you feel laying on the beach next to the ruines of a 2000 year old house ? yes, that old !
Nero's palace.
Because of some technicality I am unable to have the poor Nero stand on his feet, so you now have to take your computer and put it on its side.
J'espere que monsieur l'empereur n'a pas trop mal a la tete d'être couche ainsi, je ne puis helas le redresser.
Multilingual.
