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This week's prompt is "Unexpected."
You're encouraged to describe your photo--where you shot it, details of what you were doing or what was going on, etc.
I'll play along with the "baci" theme too! Marcello doesn't expect this kiss from Pokey! We're enjoying a glass of Trebbiano di Romagna in the lovely patio of Ristorante Villa Golini in Faenza. One of the fun meals & cooking demonstrations Colleen and I had on our Food Lover's tour
I did not expect my right wing politico brother to become so enchanted with Italy that he would attempt to join the PSI - Partita Socialista Italiana (Italian Socialist Party).
We were watching the Regatta of the Ancient Maritime Republics in Amalfi on June 5, 2005. We never expected the harbor to be filled with so many large and small motorized boats. The rowers didn't have a lot of room to maneuver. Venice won, followed by Pisa, Amalfi, and Genoa.
This was an amazing spectacle. Equally impressive was the procession that preceded the race. Participants representing various important medieval personages, trades, and professions of each republic (Venice, Pisa, Genoa and Amalfi), dressed in authentic costumes, proceeded along the Amalfi Coast Road from Atrani to the Flavio Gioia Piazza in Amalfi. Of course, the road was closed to traffic during this procession.
We took the option on our one day cooking class in Florence of going to the 14th century home of our chief’s parents for the class. The ceiling had frescos of Marco Polo in China, monkeys, hunting scenes in India and more: truly an unexpected delight!
Posts: 88 | Location: Dallas Texas area | Registered: 04 January 2007
In 2005 we found the very small village where my husband's grandfather and grandmother were born and from which they left to come to America. We did not know anyone there, but through luck found the wife of his grandfather's deceased brother still living there. She asked if we wanted to see my husband's great grandfather's house and off we went through a maze of narrow streets. When we came upon this plaque with his great grandfather's name, it was unexpected confirmation of my husband's connection with this village. Very moving for him.
On our first night based in Bologna in May, we went to the small hill town of Dozza (about 30" north), for dinner. This is a very pretty, small town where artists are invited each year to paint or create art on their buildings. We were surprised that the Sunday evening we arrived we walked into the middle of a vino festiva. The grape ballons were a kick!
(not really in context, but bugalu inspires me to follow her photos with one of mine). I think Kim or another Moderator was in Bologna too. this was part of the wallpaper in the bar/cafe' of our hotel Al Cappello Rosso.
We weren't expecting to see a reference to the Bronx, our home borough, in Venice! This is our delightful Context-Venice guide, Francesca Frulla, during our fascinating three-hour Cannaregio Stroll.
Arriving at Riomaggiore Railway Station - April 2009. An 8 minute journey on a regionale service from La Spezzia and we step onto the platform of Riomaggiore to be arrested by the sight that greets us. Right at our feet, through a jumble of wildflowers and bushes that cap a precipitous drop, the Mediterranean crashes onto jagged rocks while to our left a narrow path snakes its way across the face of cliffs that rise sharply above us. Now this really adds meaning to the precautionary train warning “Mind the Gap”. What has acted to enhance the sight is the fact that only few of the train carriages are outside the tunnels that flank the station, and so one emerges from a section of the platform that lies inside a tunnel and into the open to be confronted by this scene. Unexpected is an understatement!
I've never attached a photo,but I'm gonna try. I apologize if it doesn't work.
This is from a trip to Lake Como a few years ago - Was taking a nice walk through the gardens at Villa Cipressi when I saw this - needless to say, it was a surprise.
Posts: 11 | Location: USA | Registered: 24 March 2007
I had never seen slides projected on a building before. I was amazed at how beautiful they were and how they transformed the Capitoline Museum. This is from the Notte del Musei in Rome in May.
OK I'll admit it. I am a snoop. I stick my nose in every open doorway in Rome I find. Imagine my surprise on finding this gorgeous fountain in some doorway someplace in Rome.
I wanted to get a photo of the two guys at the bar, so my friend Ellie said, "Pretend you're shooting me, but shoot them instead. She didn't know she was still in the picture when she stuck her tongue out just as I clicked the shutter. Taken at a bar in Castelfranco in Veneto on mercato day.
WV Cyndy
Posts: 85 | Location: Morgantown, WV, USA | Registered: 23 January 2004
I'll play along with the "baci" theme too! 
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The "We are Mods" photo is funny. 
