Bologna, via Saragozza. The day after 2010 regional election.

Italian flag colours have always been used in Mr Berlusconi party symbol. The flag I saw in front of a school windows had very faded colours, just as the common sense seem to be in a country where people vote for arrogance, censorship, impoverishment, ruin.

Bologna

Closed for winter

Bologna

One more sketch in via Irnerio.

Bologna

Two sketches from a high point of view

Bologna - Via Irnerio

Same bus stop two days later.

Bologna-Via Irnerio

A bus stop

From past Christmas

Lot of unusual snow in these days for us in Bologna, so...

The Sword in the Stone

Montesiepi Hermitage-Siena-Tuscany - A plate next to the sword informs: "In 1180 on top of Montesiepi Hill, Galgano Guidotti drives his sword in this stone, worshipping it as the Cross symbol of peace and redmption."
I totally ignored the existence of that.

That's me sketching the sword.

In the same area there is San Galgano Abbey.
Good information about the whole are here http://www.sangalgano.info/index_en.html

Montesiepi Hermitage

Montesiepi Hermitage-Siena-Tuscany - A very peacefully place where I tasted, undoubtedly, one of the best red wine in all my life.

Bologna

A view from my home windows

Ferrari 512 S

The Porsche 917 competitor in 1970.

In a motorway service station not far from Turin, but in the wrong direction

Going back to Bologna from Turin I took the wrong way last Monday. I spent almost one hour to correct the mistake but it was funny; I had never been around those places before!

Sketches in Bologna

How many lines one can made while traffic lights stay red? I tryed that on Friday afternoon. Funny!

Later I was at Centro Natura waiting for the end of a judo lesson.

They were waiting too.

Gulf Porsche 917

Racing car fans know very well this car. Porsche 917's have been clocked at over 387 km/h (240 m.p.h.); it was almost unbeatable in 1970!

Last Sunday in Cremona

Balia Bea and Orco Manno are two among the characters of Melevisione, a children show broadcast from Monday to Friday by Italian Rai Television. Licia Navarrini performes Balia Bea and she is definitely one of the best actress in the show. With Diego Casalis, who effectively performs Orco Manno, she was last Sunday at Cremona fair to delight a crowd of little fans.