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Italy – Summer 2015

John Waller
“Summer 2015 trip to Greve Opera Festival, Florence, San Gimignano, Amalfi Coast, Capri and Pompeii”

From Italy 2015. Posted by John Waller on 6/21/2015 (77 items)

The wall is dripping liquid chocolate 🙂
On the Ponte Vecchio in Florence
Now that’s a reception area!

Tuscan sunset – on a vineyard, plenty of wine and pasta
My first night in Radda-in-Chianti, eveybody else has been there a week.

I had planned to return to Bar Dante all year, and tonight we did. It was well worth …

We are in such a wonderful natural spot – this praying mantis just had to join us for…
In European Vacation, Clark Griswold ‘ s wife was on posters all over Europe; mine is…
Mr. Rhinoceros Beatles made a repeat appearance tonight.

Doug’s mashed potatoes got the ultimate compliment
Opening night for CT Lyric Opera’s premiere production in Italy – Le Nozze di Figaro …
Sunset in Chianti…

Me and my bud – the Gallo di Nero (the Black Roster) – the symbol of Chianti Classic …
Another huge (3 lbs) plate of yummy pasta from Lynn and Jurate
Great food, great friends!

This view from our farmhouse never gets old…

Part of the Renaissance reenactment procession through the tiny streets of Radda in C…
In Radda’s main/only piazza

In Greve-in-Chianti ‘ s main piazza, Jurate performed (from book) Susannah after two …

These reservas will be ready in a few more years…
Andrea, the owner of the Panzanello winery, was our personal host and tour guide for …

Our final performance was a smashing sucess!
Our final concert was in Greve’s Piazza – in front of a giant David partial replica

The entrance to one of two Torture Museums in San Gimignano
Adrian’s newest baton 🙂
What a great company bobblehead Buddy Jesus is in…


Somebody earned a vacation on the Mediteranean 🙂
Our final stop of the trip – 4 days and 3 nights on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea…
One of my best of 4th of July’s away from America (this makes 10 now) – a private &qu…
Sand is a requirement for a "beach" in America, but it Europe it’s pebbles,…

A dream come true…
This is one beach we WON’T be visiting 😉
Not sure that Disney would approve of the middle Little Mermaid
Nerano Beach, Amalfi Coast, Italy

Last night at Nerano. The furthest tip of the Amalfi Coast and not nearly as crowded …
Around every corner on the Amalfi coast is another amazing view
Above Positano

Capri’s stunning views are truly breathtaking
Happy family high above Capri’s port
The famous Blue Grotto is accessible only single file by rowboat – no time or paticnc…
I wonder how many hundreds of years ago these stairs were carved into the rock

Of my dozen or so photos of the Capri lighthouse, this is my favorite
We actually motored through that hole on our tour boat
The scale of Pompeii is beyond expectations, as well as the qualtiy of Roman construc…
One of the hundreds of casts made of the victims buried at Pompeii

This theatre held/holds 5000!
The longest lines today at Pompeii were to get into the brothel – somethings never ch…
Veni, vidi, video – visiting Pompeii was definitely a bucket list item checked off. S…
Child: Does walking around in the blazing sun in 100 degree heat constitute torture? …

While the cat’s away, the mice will play. Good to know I was missed at DocXellent w…

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