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Tag Archives: Italy
Docks of Positano, Italy
Earlier this week I shot an e-mail to a cousin I’ve never met. He lives not far from Milan, Italy, and I’ll be in his neck of the woods later this year.
I’m a big believer in family and, while I’ve been to Europe before, this is the first time I’ll be going knowing family who lives there. When I clicked “send” on the e-mail, I was far more excited then I thought I’d be.
I like the idea of visiting friends and family when I’m in the neighborhood, and I really like the idea of an international twist to it.
In honor, the above picture is from Positano, Italy. Alisha and I visited there in 2005 on our first trip together out of the country. We spent the day lounging on the beach; she napped in the sun, I watched the boats come and go while playing with rocks. In the evening we took a taxi to the top of the mountain for a fantastic Italian dinner at a restaurant overlooking Positano.
I’m really looking forward to the prospect of going back to Italy, but this time meeting up with family.
September 2005. (0746)
Tyrrhenian Sea Water Spout
In September of 2005 my then-girlfriend-now-wife and I went to Italy. While on the island of Capri, we saw a water spout out in the Tyrrhenian Sea (the body of water between Italy’s “boot” and the island of Sardinia). At the time, I didn’t think much about it.
It was my first real trip out of the country and I just sort of thought it was a frequent occurrence in Italy. Additionally, I didn’t really know what was involved in creating a water spout, so we took a few pictures and moved on.
In retrospect, I wish we would have joined the fisherman pictured above and just watched the water spout move across the horizon.
Another picture of the water spout is located in the Europe Gallery page.
September 2005. (0529)
Rome, Italy
In preparation for wedding stuff, I spent the evening going through pictures from past adventures in search of photos of Alisha and I. Buried in the pictures from Rome, Italy was this image, captured from high atop St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City.
We reached the this vantage point by answering the age-old question of “Where do these stairs go? The go up.” So up we went!
It’s pretty tight quarters up here, but it’s one heck of a view!
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Fishing Boats
Whenever we travel, Alisha and I try to get off of the well-beaten tourist path. Sometimes it might mean we’re hiking down a mountain in flip-flops, or other times we’ve found ourselves in places that mom might be disappointed we’ve ventured to. (One of my favorite pictures came from aimlessly wandering down railroad tracks in Thailand and can be viewed by clicking here.)
While in Sicily, we wandered away from the coastline and explored old churches and dirty neighborhoods. It was our first time really out of the country, so we were much more guarded then we are now on similar excursions. After speaking with an Italian man in Spanish — because it was the only common language we knew — we found our way back to the sea, and popped out near a bunch of tied-off fishing boats. We were new to traveling and I was new to photography, so a few years later we’d have gone back at sunrise to enjoy the hustle and bustle.
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