26_July_2006 Milano

am. Latte macchiato. Brioche. Gelato. Espresso. Gelato. Panini. Gelato. Pizza. Vino. Mio Dio. pm
Franciscan monks in sack cloth robes taking time out from a dan brown tour for a quick espresso.


The gallery of modern art cunningly disguised as a suburban mansion so we had mr van gogh all to ourselves (and a dozen odd milling attendants).
Armani's emporium? bah. why wouldjah?
Milan night life. didn't make it to where the beautiful people were. all nite disco. strict entry selection. don't know if we want(ed) to be so celeb. maybe we are celebophobic? but got to hang in the park with milanese youth's touting chilli bins of beer. yeah.

27 July 2006 Venice (take 1)

Peggy Guggenheim's gallery of modern art. Tu meke.

Concentration camp of kids @ Balerno beach.

Nice storm(s). Glad we didn't take the campsite...


28_July_2006 Murano

"Don't go there, its not that cool" (Mark Albiston, 2006)
"...and it might threaten your relationship..."

And especially don't go there if neither of you even wants to go there but think that the other really wants to go there so you each go out of your way to accommodate the others wishes and spend 50 stinking hot minutes on a ferry to get there only to find them indifferent about being there once you finally get there so you turn around for another 50 sweltering minutes cruising the venetian scum pond wishing all the time you were at the beach which is where it turns out you both wanted to be in the first place if the other hadn't wanted so badly to go to the island of murano. which they didn't. Thanks mark albiston.