A small square in the middle of Bergamo old city

The last afternoon we rushed from Milan to Bergamo where we were supposed to take the airplane back to Prague.
I was pleasantly surprise how nice Bergamo was. It is a beautiful small city without much mess and tourists,
nicely cleaned, and nicely taken care of.

Bergamo fortification

View over the vast lowlands

A modern church next to our hostel

The way to the old city

Bergamo old city

An entrance bridge

A palace

Cathedral

Entrance to the cathedral

Isn’t there some similarity (-;

Milano Centrale – finally some monumental thing

The next day we headed to Milano. We spent some time there, being in some museums, and then
we headed to Bergamo from where our plane took off back to Prague.

Milanese tram

A lion in some museum

Hall

A statue

Do you see it?

Chinese art in Italy? (-;

A picture

Duck

What is this?

Railways station

Outside of the station

A horse on the top

The entrance hall

Western ticket office

Ceiling

A little crowded…

A fountain in the middle of a huge square in Padova

After we left Venezia, we went to Padova which is just 30km on the west. When we came to the city
centre, it was freaking hot. We couldn’t even walk. We had a great lunch with Kamča and Enrico
(Maruš was on the diet (-;). I think I like Italy a lot because of they know how to cook, and what
to cook (unlike we). I have never had there any foot which was not tasty.

We were picking wines just because of the label. When we liked it, we bought it. Actually, this turned out not to be a good strategy at all )-;

White&black and black&white

Townhall

Townhall – a detail

A window

A river (or a channel)

A lamp

We were on the market where they were selling just anything

And we had one of our best ice creams

Enrico would agree

Selling fruit

Maruš on fruit diet

The first aid

The next day we continued with La Biennale in Arsenale, and in some other buildings around the city. Arsenale wasn’t actually divided by countries, but more by artists. Sorry, I cannot present them, but you can perhaps find them in the catalog of La Biennale.

Textile decorations

I didn’t break any of those

Africa

Reich eagle

Bread

Cotton

Zeppelins

Cadillac

Bike tyres

Look into infinity

A pattern painting

Patterns

A pattern painting – detail

A pattern painting – a whole thing

Planes

Guy in the middle of a plate

Rock’n'roll

View to the garden

Unicorn

The first aid

A city

Mountains

Kamča watching glass balls with some pictures in it

The main reason why we went to Venezia were not the heaps of tourists. It was La biennale de Venezia, a modern art exhibition where many states exhibits its contemporary artists. It was really cool. However, I don’t know what to think about the czech presentation. Actually we still share our building with Slovaks. This year, there was nothing. Yes, nothing. Just some plants. Nothing else. We went through twice and we didn’t know what is it. Well, we haven’t seen nothing before. Ok, I like it as a joke. When I think about it, I really like it, but I don’t know if this is the best think to exhibit at the Biennale. Just a note that these are pictures from the first part.

Czechoslovakia (I have nothing against sharing building with Slovaks, but Czechslovakia is kinda over for more than 15 years!)

Anyway, I really liked building of Corea, exhibitions of Uruguay, Russia, Scandinavia, Denmark and Egypt. I think these were the best. Plus the cafeteria (-; Anyway, also have a look at the website of biennale – http://www.labiennale.org.

Canadian building

Australia (full of sucky videos like at every exhibition)

This guy was actually an animal

Germany

Emergency exit (-;

Scandinavia

Kamča

A Scandinavian classic

Russia

Like being a football player – really cool

This was not a part of exhibition

Venezuela or Columbia – not sure, sorry (-;

Virtual furniture

Denmark

Broken stairs

Gold is the colour!

I wouldn’t have a dinner here

Main building (no specific country)

A flower

Cafe

Cafeteria

Hungary

USA

Israel

I like their letters

On the island

Flower boat

Egypt

Egyptian cats

Calatrava’s bridge

The first thing you would do in Venezia is to cross a new Calatrava’s bridge. It’s been built just couple of months
ago, and it has to be remade again. He just fucked up one thing. The glass is falling down. Hmmm… I wouldn’t expect
anything like that from guy that makes the best bridges in the world… Anyway it’s beautiful, I really like it!

Kamča in Enrico’s glasses

These pictures are from the second and the third day we were in Venezia. The pictures from the biennale are still about
to be prepared.

Channel

A bus (ferry) stop

View through a bridge

On the seaside

A church

A seaside

St. Marco square and a duke palace

A parking lot

Who said this city is overcrowded?

A bridge

Maruš calls this a diet, I call this a massive portion of icecream (-;

A river gate

Entrance to the military base

Reflection

Channel

Channel

Another cheap trick on tourists. A waterfall…

Inside a Ferrari shop

Human slavery hasn’t died yet

Mary

They should be glad this boat transported them on a shore

No, this tower is really skewed

A channel

Cementery

The last picture shows again the Calatrava’s bridge

Saint Marco square

The next day we arrived to Venezia. After we got the accomodation in a camp, we jumped on the bus and headed to the city. The city is nice,
but it’s way too overcrowded. Despite the fact that the most of the city is too touristic, you can still find many streets without anybody.
And it’s also quite expensive as well – about twice more than the rest of places we have been to.

In front of the bus station

A bridge

Carnival masks

Carnival masks

The masks are sold everywhere

Crowded street

Entrance to the house

As I said, some street are without people

Beware of gondolas

Entrance to the house and a car… sorry boat…

A street

Entrance to basement… (-;

A cat

Channel

Kamča

Sea

Strange city, some buildings are without windows…

Locals

Boat

Laundry

Gondola driver

A touristic bridge

The main channel

Gondola

Traffic jam

Enrico

A sharp curve

A parking lot

We were not doing the last one (-;

Cathedral

Saint Marco square

Duke’s palace’

A bell

Kiosk and a fallen chair

Parking lot

Masks

Army, not a cloth shop

Gondolas are actually quite luxury boats

Beer time

(-;

Channel at night

Channel at night

Castle of Simione

In the night Enrico arrived from London, so our crew was complete. The next day we got off Milano and headed to Lago di Garda and later to Verona. The first stop was in Simione, a small touristic town in the middle of Lago di Garda. Well, I have just one or two pictures from there because my batteries flat down. So the rest is from Verona. In the evening we found an accommodation in some small village nearby, and had a great dinner with a great desert… (-;

Our crew leaving hotel

Kamča

Lago di Garda

Channel in Simione

Kamča, Maruš and Enrico

Verona arena

Streets

Guy selling newspapers and magazines

Piazza del signori

Piazza del signori

Market

A modern shop in an ancient house

Hungry Enrico (-;

Maruš was eating every word…

Enrico

A statue

A classy bike

An Italian classic

Ponte Pietra

Nice paintings

Riverside

Church and crane

A balcony

A nice house

Enrico

Falling walls

Tower of Duomo

Lion

Duomo

Sidestreet

Closing market

Police

Designed by red pepper (-;

Gate we went though

A gate I saw during random walk in the streets

This summer I went just once abroad. Me, Kamča and Marie went together to the northern Italy where we had a pleasant guide in an Italian friend Enrico. We have been to Milan, Lago di Garda, Verona, Venezia, Padova and Bergamo. There are pictures from the first day from Milano.

At the airport in Prague

Entrance to Galleria Vittorio Emanuele

Maruš and Kamča

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele

Ferrari – not just cars… but also a lot of crap under this brand

The main square with Galleria Vittorio Emanuele and Duomo

Details of duomo

Bikes to rent

Bikes to rent

Kamča

Passing trams

Just a strange building

Golden organ

View through

A centre of all design

Kamča drinking from water fountain

Hmmmm, Italian classic

Yellow trams, Milanese classic

Sculptures in the park

Four fountains

There are some pictures from Rome at night. From the first and from the third day. Basically nothing that much interesting…

At first we were to some square with fountain near to our hostel.

Then we headed to Spanish stairs, and on the way there we went through Four fountains square.

At the end we end up at the Spanish stairs where we drunk some beers, and were enjoying the warm night. The beers was Italian, and it was horrible. So don’t even think about touching Italian beers!

Spanish stairs

Cleaning

Bobík opening the bottles

The fountain bellow the stairs

The third day we went out to walk with a guy from Izrael we met in the hostel. We headed off to Forum Romanum.

Vittoriano

Forum Romanum

On the way back we took the metro. This time I was not called terrorist when I was taking pictures, so everything was ok.

The third day was yet another day of sightseeing. We were around the centre, I went to the top of Vittoriano, then we went to Circus Maximus, and saw couple of other things…

Rome’s panorama

The top of Vittoriano

Roofs

Some more panorama

Circus Maximus

Sculpture of apparently brave soldiers

Italy – scooter’s country

Foot or fish?

Political demonstration – what a fun for tourists

Another roof

A small bus

Exhaust

Yet another exhaust

Street in the city

In the second day, we were hanging in the city, and in the evening we went to the new Rome city build by Mussoliny

Rome panorama

Legs

Since my flat has terrace, I love all of them, and in Rome, they were basically on every roof

The new Rome was build as city for Mussolini. It was designed ground up from the beginning in the 30s. They were trying to build modern buildings with the old mask of Roman architecture.

At the end, an officer in the metro refused me to take pictures there (as many times in transportation system) telling me that I can be a terrorist. WTF!!!

Italian classic…

Some time ago me, Shama and Bobík went to an extended weekend trip to Rome. There are some pictures from the first day.

Coloseum

There are heaps of them.

Some terrace on the roof

Bobík taking picure of Rome’s wolf

Forum Romanum

Forum Romanum

Drunkards! They drink while I take pictures…