Blogs from Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, Europe

Suzy the motorhome who has served us so well over the last five and a half years finds herself parked on a massive car park with motorhome spaces in the city of Gorizia. A free car park at that . Free for 72 hours. You can if you wish stay that long without being moved on. How many British car parks would allow that. Hardly any. Motorhomes are welcomed here with open arms. Our topic of conversation had moved on from our holiday to heading home, to cleaning Suzy out and taking her for her valuation. Glenn had been looking at what is available and a couple of dealers are selling 2016 stock at a much reduced price. Registered new they would be a good investment . But and there is a big but. We would ... read more

Up bright and early this morning, although not as early as the small group performing in the Renaissance Class. They were first on the agenda for the entire day. We wandered over to the auditorium to see them perform at 9:00, and it was an absolute pleasure! They looked like they were having so much fun, and were sounding just about perfect! Stayed to listen to a few of the other competitors afterwards, and got to hear groups from Poland, Russia, Latvia, Italy, South Korea, amongst other countries. It was interesting to hear them all, but competitions like this can be pretty subjective, and we're not at all sure what the judges are looking for. Fingers crossed and hoping for the best. The best part of the a.m. was watching Heather stalk the pianist from a ... read more

This morning it was back on the bus to Verona. Verona is another smaller city that I think would be neat to revisit someday. In spite of the cheese-tastic-ness of the whole 'Juliet' tourism industry, it's a very historic city, not to mention that hey have the opera festival during the summer in the arena, lots of parks an interesting public places... One hour there really wasn't quite enough. We continued the day of bus-filled awesomeness after Verona, arriving in Gorizia in the evening with enough time to settle into rooms and get changed for our evening concert in Fiumicello, which was part of the festival in which we're competing. We sang in another church of unknown vintage, which was fairly full of audience members, including our bus driver, Gianfranco (who has been at _every_ one ... read more