Welcome to my latest theme. Monday Washing Lines.
This week I am back in Italy in the town of Frascati quite close to Rome. I have chosen this washing line because I like the use of a single peg colour – the work of a professional pegger…
It is a Challenge. Do feel free to join in…
Posted in Europe, History, Italy, Literature, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Frascati, Monday, Rome, washing Line PegsWashing, Washing Lines
Marino is clearly not a tourist place but instead a traditional Italian living and working town with shabby narrow streets, care worn but brightly colour-washed buildings with ancient coats of paint which have blotched and blurred by successive harsh summers and the result is a glorious wash like water colours leaking in the rain, everything running, flaking and fusing.
Posted in Europe, History, Italy, Travel
Tagged Albano, Castel Gandolfo, Ciampino, Frascati, Italy, Life, Marino, Photography, Rome, Weekly Photo Challenge
Marino was clearly not a tourist place but instead a traditional Italian living and working town with shabby narrow streets, care worn but brightly colour-washed buildings with ancient coats of paint which have blotched and blurred by successive harsh summers and the result is a glorious wash like water colours in the rain, everything running, leaking and fusing.
Posted in Europe, History, Italy, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Albano, Castel Gandolfo, Ciampino, Frascati, Italy, Life, Marino, Photography, postaday, Rome, Weekly Photo Challenge
The Washing Lines of Marino, Italy
The streets between the houses are like deep gullies made brilliant by vibrant washing lines strung outside windows like bunting as though in anticipation of a parade or a carnival, stretching across the streets dripping indiscriminately and swaying gently backwards and forwards above the secret doorways and back alleys.
Posted in Europe, History, Italy, Natural Environment, Travel
Tagged Albano, Castel Gandolfo, Ciampino, Frascati, Italy, Life, Marino, Photography, Rome
Covering 2,000 years of history in two days in sun drenched Rome the holiday club visit the Eternal City during the 150 year celebrations of the unification of Italy.
In the grip of an unexpected heat wave while the Romans seek out shade Andrew, Kim, Micky, Sue and Christine do what the English do best and go out in the midday sun to see ancient, medieval and modern Rome.
Posted in Europe, Food, History, Hotels, Italy, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Albano Laziale, Castel Gandolfo, Frascati, Italy, Marino, Roman Forum, Rome, Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain
Frascati, another of the Castelli Romani, is a busy dormitory town for nearby Rome and being the location of several international scientific laboratories is closely associated with science and technology. In 1943 it was heavily bombed and approximately half of its buildings, including many monuments, villas and houses, were destroyed. Many people died in an air raid on 22nd January 1944, the day of the battle of Anzio. Towards the end of the war the city was finally liberated from the Nazi German occupation on 4th June 1944 by the advancing American infantry.
We had a late afternoon flight so had all of the morning and the early afternoon for more sightseeing and the plan today was to use the local bus and take a trip to the shoreline of the lake that we had seen several times now from the windows of the train. From what we could make out from the badly faded timetable half stuck with peeling sellotape to the window at the terminus the buses seemed to run every hour and we had missed one by a matter of only seconds so there was a forty minute wait for the next one to come along. I purchasedthe tickets for Marino and we waited in the sunshine.
Posted in Europe, History, Italy, Travel
Tagged Albano Laziale, Castel Gandolfo, Codice della Strada, Frascati, Italian Highway Code, Italy, Lake Albano, Marino
Have Bag, Will Travel 