In order of appearance: Roma, Pitigliano, Capalbio beach, Porto Ercole, and back to Roma.
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Let’s start with an alien starship. Don’t you agree? It’s too smooth to be of this earth.
Then there is the second most beautiful, spotted in Piombino with an Elba beach in the ad. Povero 2CV, looks a little far away from home. In Italy they can be harsh towards French cars.
But some Italians use Citroens to get married.
In Piran, Slovenia, they are useful for reflecting the sunset…
…and for modelling.
This photo is especially for Sylvain because here are two red cars, from 1000 miglia race last year.
Two cars from Christmas in Roma.
Taken in Trastevere.
And now two from Roma last week. This one is a bit lost.
He, however, looks right at home. (Or better, Italians say it’s a she!)
Time for a trio of Fiats 500. Still immensely popular. First two from Roma.
Door photos are so abundant that I can use them for other challenges, hihi.
Some cars have been taken over by cat population.
A happy trio of neighbours.
And a city one in Capalbio.
But I still prefer our car. It takes us to amazing places.
And gives good perspective.
Even though…
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Since I love learning new words and Sylvain asked for “incongruous”: not that I’m out of place or not in harmony, but before I lied down this had been a poppy field… Don’t know how I could miss every single one of them. (If you don’t count that tired one front left. Goes well with the grey).
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Largo di Santa Susanna in Roma
Il giardino dei tarocchi.
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Vatican
Inside the Pantheon, Roma
Porto Ercole
Photo: Klu
Alas, just like in school, even the longest time passes. He is back with a new theme, and I’m stuck with so many yellow photos gathered! Let me post them anyway, even if late.
I think this is the longest gallery on my blog. Yellow is my blog’s background colour, after all, and the colour of the wall in my bedroom. Location info is in the captions.
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(I know this, even though WordPress has stopped informing me about the number of posts or anniversaries and things like that a while ago. I don’t know what happened. – ADD-IT: The notification came at 11pm. WordPress never forgets, thank you!)
To think that the main impulse for starting the blog was lack of feedback from my family and friends upon sending them heaps of emails with photos from my new life in the new country!
To keep us company in this post, here are some of my favourite already published photos:
Obviously the world is indeed big enough to find a variety of people who are not too lazy to tell you when you make them smile, busy schedule notwithstanding. Thank you all so much for that! I know how precious this is: even I with all the time in the world have trouble following everybody I’d like to. There are just too many brilliant people around!
It’s not just laziness, some friends back home are saying they don’t understand my blog because it’s in English. Hmmm, as little as I write? Photos are in English as well, are they? Whining like some Italians! Aren’t Slovenians known to brag how good we are at English? Because, compatriots, no matter how much you whine, this blog is NOT turning Slovenian any time soon.
And lest we forget, at the beginning, for much of the first year really, there were just about 7 followers, all family and friends. Only after I started joining photo challenges, many more of you came over and some stayed. Among the challenges that have achieved this are (in each line three links lead to three posts for every challenge):
and the latest I have joined:
Soon I will reach the upgrade limit for this one and will start another WordPress blog. Nothing much will change (other than the theme), I quite like it as it is. I hope – I always hope – to do more writing, but just like the rest of the world I’m getting lazier in this regard, posting more photos and less words. They are easier on the eye, it seems, or is it brain. It’s not that words are lacking, I always have a bunch, they are lurking JUST behind the corner. Beware.
Here is a recap of my writings that I posted last June. I find it very telling that only father, Snow Somewhere Else and Badfish commented. Well, I do say it’s for the organised and the mad ones. 😀 (Love you!)
What is alarming is that I’ve only added very few writings to Own Words category since.
Among them are:
In short – nobody has a truly good excuse for not following me. But I cannot and don’t want to force anybody either. Everything I said on this day last year in my first anniversary post is still true: we have strawberries and if you don’t want them – your loss.
And as they say in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels: “It’s a deal, it’s a steal, in fact…
…I think I’ll keep it!” 😀
Featured photo: The header of my upcoming blog: MLK in Ljubljana.
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Ljubljana New Year’s light jungle and an inspector.
For the hungry in Ljubljana – sadly, they were idle.
Cherry light fixtures in Lolita, Ljubljana.
This is how I do it.
Piran clock tower and cables.
A combinatian of ancient and electric in Lucca.
Mad scientist lab in Lucca (for instance).
Back to daily views: Capalbio stazione.
The view off Capalbio with a lone lamp.
And my favourite: I thought it was graffiti but apparently this is how here they warn people about electricity: “Who enters dies.” How Dantesque.
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The Garden is free every first Saturday in the months from November to March and I do my best to visit each time. Sometimes with an extra Devil. Whereas Ninja still has to be made into a tarot card. What can I say… it’s refreshing. I especially recommend the visit to any female who has ever struck her hip bones wishing they would just disappear, or wiggle her sedere in frustration because it ain’t going anywhere. This is our place of worship. Thank you, Niki!
More information on the statues in the captions. Here is an interesting paper on Niki and the Garden that I have just found.
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Then I thought it was food, and still wanted to post the books. They are soul food after all, and two of the books are about food (yep, got myself two Pollans). But since Sylvain said cook, here are some of my favourite home-made dishes.
Make no mistake: the chefs are amore and father (the last two photos). Oh, the strudel – that was mine, all mine. (Names of dishes in captions)
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First the same staircase from the bottom looking up twice, to flash or not to flash.
And then the Vatican Museum, just to show Sylvain I’ve got it too :), the Stadio dei marmi, and of course, the Spanish steps.
For Sylvain Landry’s SL-WEEK 33: Stairs
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This is my first photo exhibition in the making, Italian Trash Magic. New items are added as we go, always at the same spot, like in a game. Mostly they are gone by the next day, so I have to hurry.
Photo: MM
But first a little story. We loved playing a kind of charades when we went to our annual sea adventure to Duba. The words to pantomime were random and sometimes very difficult to guess. One time it was mom’s turn to show and ours to guess. Before starting on the first word she looked towards the horizon and gave a little smile. “Fleeting,” came out of my mouth. Actually, “minljiv,” we are Slovenians after all.
It was correct.
These are kind of like that.
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The Mexi Movie I. (closed) 