Wednesday, 17 January, 2018
After a solid night's sleep, it was time to check in with social media and start exploring my new surroundings.
Laurie posted two pictures of my newest travel sign that arrived the day after I left California.
The Varese Skorpions are now part
of my collection
A big thank you as always to Sandy at Hampton Refurbished Wood for making all of our signs.
The EuroBall Wall is just
about out of room
Villa Skorpion from outside the gate
The Villa Skorpion is located in the village of Venegono Superior about ten minutes southeast of Varese.
Our street translates into
Flower Field
I am ALWAYS aware of
dogs on my walks
I started my walk going south
towards the neighboring village
of Venegono Inferiore
Nice cross at the traffic circle
just outside of the cemetery
Alert Eagle
Not sure what this group does
So many gnomes is part of what
makes Venegono Inferiore, well,
inferior
After my morning walk,
Dario D'Adelfio took me
to the supermarket to get
much needed supplies
He also got me registered in the supermarkets discount program.
GRAZIE Dario!
After lunch, I took another walk, this time towards . . .
My new hometown
The map of the village
We have a nice sports complex
The new City Hall building
It translates as
Julius Caesar Road
Roman General
Who knew?
Giuseppe Garibaldi Road
General Patriot (1807-1892)
I think that every city, village and hamlet in Italy has a Via Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Nope, not going in here
The old City Hall
I need to get a library card ASAP
Access to free English language books and DVDs makes life overseas all the easier.
Of course it was closed
I'll try again tomorrow.
What is that building up on the hill?
Well first there was this old,
intriguing Chiesa Santa Maria
St. Christopher
The back side of
Chiesa Santa Maria
This was the base of the building
that caught my eye from a distance
African Mission Institute?
The BVM standing guard
This is now the
Missionari Comboniani
It is an extremely good
looking building atop this hill
St. Joseph and the Baby Jesus
A brightly colored old building
that was once a trattoria
A butcher shop specializing
in horse meat
Works for me if the horse meat tastes as good as it did in Catania nine years ago.
Chiesa San Giorgio
I stepped to take a look around but a Solemn High Mass had just begun, way too much singing for me.
Just liked the look
I may need to investigate
this in the near future
Another cool building in Venegono
Superiore that has seen better days
Uh-Oh . . TROUBLE
Oh my . . .
Goodness gracious
Somehow, I was STRONG!
I only had a small cup of coffee that had chocolate, whip cream and sweet, diced peanuts in it.
Not to be outdone,
Venegono Superiore has an eagle too
Texas A&M grads getting ready
for the return of the Texas game?
I got to talk with Mary via
Facetime in the afternoon
In the evening, we had a
Skorpions coaches meeting
Of course it was at a restaurant that served excellent pizza, wine, beer, tiramisu and coffee.
It was a productive meeting with much lively and purpose driven discussion. We are off to a good start.
Tomorrow night I will attend my first practice with our Skorpions and I am sure that it will be . . .
A GREAT night for American football!
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