23 thoughts on ““road” ~ PhotoHunt

  1. Nice! I love Soave the wine and like getting to see what the area looks like. And even though it’s not a close-up, I can tell you’re happy in the second photo! Have a great weekend.

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  2. Great road shots… I love them both!
    I was expecting Hawaiian roads… with some turtles, nene, or those little rodents crossing… Road to Hana?

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  3. Hi Girasoli, great theme photos! Cool photo of you in that second one on the road to Civita di Bagnoregio. I also enjoyed the first one winding through . . . beautiful!
    Great selection! Have a great Sunday!

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  4. Love both photos!
    I had to look up both places on the map since I didn’t know its exact location. Soave is so close to Verona, where I spent a week in ’02. When were you there?
    Civita sounds like a lovely hill town. Will have to put it on the list. I love seeing scanned photos of pre-digital travels.
    About the castle, I didn’t want to put this information on the post because my Sicilian family is quite reserved, but my cousin lives in the castle. For more than half a century her husband’s family worked for the owners (always referred to as “il principe and la principessa”). My cousin is a widow now and she and her son run the farm and have a small store at the entrance of the road where they sell their produce. I stay with them when I’m in Palermo, so I sleep in the castle. The ground floor is the only part that’s habitable, the rest is closed-up. Next time you make it down to Sicily I can take you to visit a castle “in rovina” (in ruins).

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  5. Annie, I thought it was pretty cool to see the vineyards where the Soave wine comes from. We also drove by the factory.
    Lucy, that would have been a great idea to use the Kilauea lava flows for the road theme.
    Tammy, thanks for stopping by!!
    Pretty Life, as you can probably see, I am partial to Italy also.
    Jo, I hope you get there one day.
    Jerry, I think you would love Civita. It is a tiny village with amazing views.
    Yummy, I loved your road also.
    Enigma, thanks for stopping by! Ahh yes, the winding road of life…
    saint2, I didn’t think of that til you mentioned it. Now that I think if it, I have seen photos in Asia with similar terraces.
    Leslie, grazie!
    Eden, yesterday morning when heading out to do some errands, I found a dead rodent next to my car! It was either a huge mouse or a small rat – the tail was missing so I wasn’t sure which one it was. I decided against a photo though. I have only done the road to Hana once many years ago before the digital age. I was too busy getting car sick to take photos that day.
    Carver, thanks! Glad you liked them.
    Kathy, I don’t usually like my photo being taken and am not too excited about my toothpick legs in this photo, but it does bring back wonderful memories!
    María, I was there in June, 2006. Katia and Guido took me there. It is a pretty neat little town with a castle that you can tour. This photo was one of the views from the top. I had an amazing gelato while there. One of the best I think I have ever had! Civita is also very cool. It is very tiny with only a few residents still living there. I had a great time wandering around and the views as I mentioned earlier are amazing!
    Thanks for the info on the castle. Wow, you get to sleep there? That would be cool if one day we could meet up in Sicily. I have only been there once back in 2002 for two weeks and would love to return one day.

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  6. G: Touche! I laughed when I saw your entry – Civita – of course — the one and only road for entry….and here I was thinking I’d see Hana . Thanks for the Sunday afternoon chuckle:-)M

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  7. Mar, thanks for stopping by! Glad you liked the photos.
    menehune, no road to Hana for me. The problem with me getting photos of roads in Hawaii is that I am usually driving. And when I am not, the traffic is too crazy to stand in the middle of the road to take a photo.

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  8. Love the photo of Civita – that town has been on my list ever since I first read of it a couple years ago. But not sure it’s very reachable by public transportation so alas, it’s been out of my reach so far – hoping to get Dave over there one of these years so we can rent a car and just tool around aimlessly.

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