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| fur is in |
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| high-tech weather station |
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| Bologna |
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| Venezia |
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| Perugia |
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| Venezia II |
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| strange fruit |
No connection between these 3 items, except my surprise.
Long, old-fashioned, politically-incorrect, fur coats are very common here -- traditional, long, mink coats that I haven't seen for years, but also more modern fur trim stoles, etc. They seem to never have gone out of fashion and seem to be considered elegant. I doubt that the coat in the picture is sealskin, looks more like polar bear to me.
OK, grappa. I still don't get it. I'm working on the concept and hope to appreciate it by the time we leave, but so far it is just a potent after dinner digestive. I guess it took me some practice a few years ago to enjoy scotch, but girly limoncello is so far still preferable to grappa, and as a tourist I can just get away with it (unlike, say, a cappuccino after 10 a.m. which would be laughable for men). Now crodino on the other hand is a pleasant surprise......
Graffiti:
Here are a few pictures that I am collecting on a graffiti theme. We initially saw this acronym around
Perugia and finally realized it is a bit of a distasteful slogan but fairly common in Italy and Eastern Europe with an origin in England union strikes.
Consult Wikipedia to find out more about the acronym. The sequence 1,3,1,2 is banned, so for my title, I chose to use ASCII/Unicode -- couldn't decide whether to convert it to hex or binary, so let's just leave it in decimal, shall we?
Disclaimer: I do not in any way support the above message nor the groups who have appropriated the acronym.
