OK, I\'m back from Italy, and I bet you\'re all glad about that lol
Luckily I didn\'t meet Tony there, overall it was great :innocent: First week in Levanto was noisy, but we swam in the wonderful clear sea every day, and ate out all the time :drool: FANTASTIC ice cream, pizza, pasta... glarrrgh :drool: British stuff paled in comparison. Our flat was a bit crap, with almost no cutlery ??? Geckos gathered round the lights, and all the time I was surrounded by beautiful girls in bikinis!
I also got stung by a jellyfish and stepped on a sea urchin :redface:
Second week in the tiny village of Vezzanello. Barely another living soul for miles, and a 45 minute drive to the closest supermarket (called Gonad) [size=-2]OK, it was really called Conad...[/size] that wasn\'t inhabited by an old crone selling UHT milk and sugar substitutes from an unlit warehouse. The only neighbours were a few old harridans, a cat and a dog. The village wasn\'t very picturesque, and you wouldn\'t have wanted to stay there were it not for the views. And of course the wildlife for me It was blisteringly hot, and every village around us was decaying. Sometimes a bit depressing, but we managed to enjoy ourselves :flip:
The holiday provided lots of opportunity for me to practise my macrophotography on the various critters I found (I also found a few interesting dead insects, and stuck them on cork :]), and of course a few other things. Here are some of my better photos...
A friendly bush cricket
2 butterflies
Carpenter Bee, with regular bee behind him (action shot)
Cool stripy church in Levanto
Creepy deathmask in another Chruch along the cinqueterre
A couple of the many geckos I saw
Gryphosoma italicum, an attractive species of shieldbug
Cool view from a tower in Lucca, which had trees growing on it
View across the cinqueterre from Monterosso, me and my Dad went on a loooong walk. The whole of Italy, I forgot to mention, is heavily populated with frigging Cicadas. The closest I got to seeing the bastards was some shed skin
A praying mantis outside our door in Vezzanello (I took a movie of him too, I\'ll post that when I work out how to put it on photobucket ???)
A Rosechafer! New metallics technique anyone?
Spongi Ball and his Luminous Gadgets lol ??? Weird because he is Spongebob Squarepants, so he\'s hardly a spongi ball :no:
A couple of sunsets from our Vezzanello balcony
A Swallowtail on a weird candle. Vezzanello cottage (called Loggia di Beatrice) was full of Gingham, strange ironwork on the walls, ethnic mallets etc. lol
I took lots of photos of lizards, but this one was a bit special because he was only 5cm long
A predatory wasp that lived in our wall
Where indeed? lol
Hope you enjoyed that
And finally, possibly the best photo I took in Italy, some sunlit bark:
I recommend a visit :beer:
~Bill
Luckily I didn\'t meet Tony there, overall it was great :innocent: First week in Levanto was noisy, but we swam in the wonderful clear sea every day, and ate out all the time :drool: FANTASTIC ice cream, pizza, pasta... glarrrgh :drool: British stuff paled in comparison. Our flat was a bit crap, with almost no cutlery ??? Geckos gathered round the lights, and all the time I was surrounded by beautiful girls in bikinis!
I also got stung by a jellyfish and stepped on a sea urchin :redface:Second week in the tiny village of Vezzanello. Barely another living soul for miles, and a 45 minute drive to the closest supermarket (called Gonad
) [size=-2]OK, it was really called Conad...[/size] that wasn\'t inhabited by an old crone selling UHT milk and sugar substitutes from an unlit warehouse. The only neighbours were a few old harridans, a cat and a dog. The village wasn\'t very picturesque, and you wouldn\'t have wanted to stay there were it not for the views. And of course the wildlife for me It was blisteringly hot, and every village around us was decaying. Sometimes a bit depressing, but we managed to enjoy ourselves :flip:The holiday provided lots of opportunity for me to practise my macrophotography on the various critters I found (I also found a few interesting dead insects, and stuck them on cork :]), and of course a few other things. Here are some of my better photos...
A friendly bush cricket
2 butterflies
Carpenter Bee, with regular bee behind him (action shot
)
Cool stripy church in Levanto
Creepy deathmask in another Chruch along the cinqueterre
A couple of the many geckos I saw
Gryphosoma italicum, an attractive species of shieldbug
Cool view from a tower in Lucca, which had trees growing on it
View across the cinqueterre from Monterosso, me and my Dad went on a loooong walk. The whole of Italy, I forgot to mention, is heavily populated with frigging Cicadas. The closest I got to seeing the bastards was some shed skin
A praying mantis outside our door in Vezzanello (I took a movie of him too, I\'ll post that when I work out how to put it on photobucket ???)
A Rosechafer!
New metallics technique anyone?
Spongi Ball and his Luminous Gadgets lol ??? Weird because he is Spongebob Squarepants, so he\'s hardly a spongi ball :no:
A couple of sunsets from our Vezzanello balcony
A Swallowtail on a weird candle. Vezzanello cottage (called Loggia di Beatrice) was full of Gingham, strange ironwork on the walls, ethnic mallets etc. lol
I took lots of photos of lizards, but this one was a bit special because he was only 5cm long
A predatory wasp that lived in our wall
Where indeed? lol
Hope you enjoyed that
And finally, possibly the best photo I took in Italy, some sunlit bark:
I recommend a visit :beer:
~Bill
