Blogs from Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, Europe - page 6

I had told daddy after our trip to South Africa/Egypt/Greece this summer that my next trip I wanted to go back to Italy to see the place I was born. So this was the time. A 2 hour drive from Valpolicella and we arrived in Sacile. It is a beautiful little town. While we did not go into the hospital, he showed me what room I stayed in after I was born for 2 nights. We then passed by the town of Aviano. This is the where the Air Force Base was that daddy worked at for 3 years. We were not allowed on it anymore, since daddy is no longer in the military. He showed me the clinic he worked at, which was now a big hospital, and the school my brother went to. We ... read more

On my way to Trieste I had to change train at Bologna. In the waiting room I saw a big memorystone with a list of 85 names and ages 3 years old up til 81, victims of an act of terror at Bologna station on August 2nd in 1980. Terror is of all times but as long as we dont ask from our governments 100% security we will always be able to survive. They were busy in the waitingroom preparing probably a tv programm by interviewing people and filming the memorystone.The makers of the programm were all younger than born in 1980. On the stations in Italy you see a lot of police and every now and than soldiers on patrol. Even inside the trains on the mainlines you see every now and than police walking ... 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

Geo: 45.6495, 13.7689 GÜN31 Günlerden Cumartesi Her güzel şeyin sonu geldiği gibi bu güzel seyahatin de sonu geldi. Sabah erken uyandım. Kahvaltımı gölgede yaptım. Daha sonra nihai toparlanma aşamasına geldik. Son yerleştirmeler yapıldı. Dünya kadar şarap alındıydı bunlar yok edildi. Artık Ayşecik ile profesyonelizmin doruğundayız. Arabayı parıldattım.... hesabı ödedim 10:30 da yoldayız. Lorenzo ile randevumuz 14:00 Bu nedenle işi ağırdan alarak yavaş yavaş Trieste'ye doğru akıyoruz. Ortalama her istasyonda durarak vakit geçirmeye çalışıyoruz. Türkiye de pahalı yakıta doğru gittiğimizden, burada depoyu fulledik. Saat 13:00 te Trieste de idik Trieste, Slovenya sınırına doğru, İtalya'nın kuzey doğusunda bulunan bir şehir ve limandır. ... read more