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Italy – Summer 2014

John Waller
“Starting out in Schlern (Dolomites), then Venice, Florence, Siena, most of Toscana and Cinque Terre :)”

From Italy 2014. Posted by John Waller on 7/20/2014 (80 items)

After 24 hours of travel including a broken plane and 4 hours of driving, I almost wa…
Hartley Horn and Julia have been having a great time here.
I love all the carvings and other transformations of natural objects into works of ar…
This is the third year in a row that Jurate Svedaite-Waller has been a participant at…

Curious kitty
Schlern’s two points shrouded in clouds.
I’ve never seen Schlern from this angle – I took a cable car up to nearly the same hi…

That’s the Gardena formation behind those lucky cows – my goal for Tuesday’s final ri…
For some reason, nobody wanted to share a gondola with a crazy American mountain-bike…
Stepping off the cablecar from St. Ulrich, I was completely blown away by the view of…

Inside, my smile was 10 times bigger this this!
This how a bunny sees these incredible mountains 🙂
They say there are giants in these mountains, this bench is proof 😉
Self-timer selfie

Riding by this waterfall was the last leg of the 30km tour of the Seiser Alm / Alpe d…
Our Fiat 500 JUST had enough room for the bike.

In the Map Room of the Palazo Ducale
That’s a serious honker!
Thomas Kincaid – about 3-400 years ago


View out the front door of the farmhouse we’re staying at in Chianti

A little friend among the grape wines.
Looking to the East..little frien
The farm is graded by two "professional" dogs guarding a flock of cashmere …
Classic Chianti Classico landscape.

There’s a Baptistry behind that façade.
One of the incredible panels of "The Gates of Paradise" on the Baptistry of…
View of Florence below from Fiesole high above.
The neighbor’s villa.

Our hosts, Giovanni and Simonetta served an awesome 10 course Tuscan dinner, finishin…



This delicious wine was made from the grapes grown on "our" farm by our hos…
A rustic Tuscan breakfast – yum!
A great start to an awesome day!

Siena is a beautiful!
Piazza del Campo in Siena where the famous Palio race is held.

Il Duomo in Siena in one of the most magnificent cathedrals in the world!

During the trip we will have visited nearly all provinces of Toscna. There are dozens…
The Thermal Spings at Saturnia were known even during Roman times for the healing pro…

One last get together with our wonderful host family – Giovanni, Maria Giovanna, Joel…
Adrian and I agreed to "do something" next year that G. Puccini would appro…


What a glorious ending of an incredible vacation!
One last memory from our Italian adventure…

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