Sunday morning. Church bells call the faithful to early mass as the mist rises rapidly from these Tirol peaks. Strange how you are able to hear a glider. Almost as if the eye records the graceful movement for the ear which translates the lack of sound into an audible silence. We follow the gliders moving [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Innsbruck (3)
Posted in Austria on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Innsbruck (2)
Posted in Austria on July 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today we woke up late and got up around 10.30 to a hot breakfast of Italian sausages and pita bread. Thanks Mum. Patrick and I played Lord of the Rings in the forest behind the camp wtih big sticks for hours. Patrick had the best sword but he snapped it by smashing it into a [...]
Venice (2)
Posted in Italy on July 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Venice was very hot. It is built on 170 different islands.
I found it quite boring , tho it was better than Dubrovnik. I had to stop mum looking in every second Venetian glass jewellery shop.
I liked the the coca cola flavour slushy and also the ice cream that we bought. I also [...]
Joseph’s Photo Diary (2)
Posted in Croatia, Italy on July 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s got to be better than writing a diary. Photos from Italy and Croatia.
- Joe
Innsbruck
Posted in Austria on July 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Northern Italy heading for Austria is staggering. Such high snow topped crags and tiny villages, each with its own church spire scattered across emerald green alpine meadows. I expect to see Heidi at any moment, and possibly Maria. “What about that girl in the wheel chair?” asks Patrick (He’s read the Heidi [...]
Venice (1)
Posted in Italy on July 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I can’t believe i have been here twice before – how could I have completely forgotten it?! It is exceptionally pretty and still feels lived in. (Certainly the outskirts do – as Brian and I established beyond doubt while driving around aimlessly and endlessly looking for our camp, reality bearing no relation to our [...]
Northern Croatia
Posted in Croatia on July 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ellen continues to be the tent putter upper – preferably with no help. So when she knocks over the pasta pot with our dinner into it, all is forgiven. I am relying on her to take charge of our camp s when we are in France and Brian has abandonded us for Madrid [...]
Korčula
Posted in Croatia on July 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We drive North to an island we can afford to cross over to! Korcula has a little accent over the c – that’s why these funny foreign keyboards are full of odd letter combinations and accent marks!
It is an island full of rocks and vinyards, so much rock that there are endless little [...]
Cats
Posted in General on July 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In every nook and cranny you look in you will see feral cats! There are so many of them everywhere I feel sorry for the tiny kittens in terrible condition. In the campground we thought we saw more but the owner said that they weren’t wild, but were Egyptian cats that are very skinny with [...]
Croatia (1)
Posted in Croatia on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dubrovnik’s old city is a disappointment. Twenty odd years ago it felt like a living town, a community where we wandered in the evening, passing local families chatting on doorsteps. Today it is an Adriatic Disneyland. With massive cruise liners moving in and out of the bay, disgorging hundreds of tourists to shuffle around the [...]
