Tuesday, July 10, 2012

ABC Wednesday: Z is for...

Zattere

From A View on Cities: "The Zattere was built in 1519 and first used as a landing dock for the delivery of timber used to construct ships and buildings, which gave the quay the name Zattere, Italian for raft.
The timber gone, the Zattere today is a spacious promenade that runs along the entire southern shore of Venice's Dorsoduro District, from the Marittima and San Basilio all the way to the Punta della Dogana
."

My mother and I spent two nights in Venice in 2008...it was our first visit to Venice, to Italy, to Europe! We both fell under the spell of La Serenissima. We were there in March, when there were (relatively) few tourists. The mornings and evenings were misty and mysterious...strolling through the hushed calles, it really felt like we'd been cast way back to a distant time past. One afternoon we wandered around the Dorsoduro sestiere and came to the Zattere. The buildings glowed in the sun and we couldn't resist sitting on this bench by Ponte Longo and gaze across to the island of Giudecca. Here is Mom on the Zattere, basking in the wonder of being in Venice...



And that's all for Round 10!
Zip over to ABCW for the last word in Zzzzz...and an update on what Round 11 might bring!



Saturday, July 7, 2012

Saturday Photohunt: Zany



Sandy on the Photohunt page posted a pic of a zany display outside a shop in Montepulciano...I can't resist posting my own photo of that very shop! Mine is from last summer, when their theme was yellow shoe planters...



But my own zany choice is a photo of a big painted egg Mom and I stumbled across while wandering around Ferrara. The egg was displayed in the courtyard of the Centro Cinema E Audiovisivi building on via Gaetano Previata. The place was closed that day so we were not able to find out what the egg display was all about, but we found it fascinating and...ZANY!



Here is the egg from a couple of different angles...





Here is a close up of one of the scenes...the detail was amazing!

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

ABC Wednesday: Y is for...

Yummy in my tummy!!

Like this yum-elicious pizza...



Mom and I had lunch in the funky little Bar Brera after our visit to the amazing Brera Art Gallery in Milan. (No clue who the dude in the pic is...he just happened to be sitting at the table next to us and it was impossible to get a photo of the place without getting him in the shot!)



Yahoo, I've nearly made it through Round 10 (my 1st round) of ABCW!!!


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