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# The gift - a story 05'08'31 15:02 link

The alternate universe of kuro5hin surprised me with this beautiful little fairytale: The Fifth Gift.

# One week in Italia 05'08'23 13:00

A week's holiday, visiting il famiglia in the small village of Fondo in Valle de Non, Trentino.

Some random notes, awaiting a proper narrative.

Cosina nonesa en ti somasi de Fon - now that's the way Italians like a village fest: organizing it around food. Two days to have lots of local specialities and an excuse to talk about food all weekend.

Canyon river Sass. Fondo is actually built on top of a gorge, and a couple of years ago, a walkway was opened through it. Sometimes you could see a house fifty meters above.

Walking in the valley and the mountains. Testing my vertigo in the Funicolare Mendola - St. Antonio and in the chairlift on the Roën...

Lago di Molvino. Terrific scenery, though too cold to swim.

Touring the region. Valle di Non really is the nicest valley by far.

Seeing Verdi's Nabucco at the Fondo Opera Festival.

From Trento runs a narrow gauge line, mostly parallel to the mainline to Bolzano up to Mezzocorona, where it turns into Valle di Non. The locals call it il trenino.
Ferrovia Trento-Male.
In Trento station FS, we visited visiting the Model railway exhibition of the Gruppo Fermodellistico Arnaldo Pocher. Accessible only by request - we got a tour from the Capo di Stazione himself.

Swimming pool, 1km above sea level.

Parlare Italiano - io sono pio bene adesso. Studying paid off.

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The cameraphone pics are on flickr. I shot a roll of b/w as well, but the darkroom will have to wait while it's summer!

# Waiting for the train 05'08'02 13:43 link

It's going to be a long, long time before the next train...

(picture on flickr: flood in Mumbai)

BTW: I've started using flickr myself, too. For now just to dump pictures taken with my cameraphone.
I should update the site with a the flickr thingy that displays recent pictures. One more for the endless to-do list.