Life is beautiful

It's not a myth that Italians are a proud bunch of people. Their country is blessed with gorgeous sights, every inch of their architecture so intricately filled with history and also down to the very fact that Shakespeare's legend of the most famous lover of all time, Romeo and Juliet lived and still lives in Italy. Spaghetti, pizza, the San siro stadium, AC Milan, branded goods and style, romance... randomly as u name it, it says 'Made in Italy'. It's no wonder they are proud.

Some more pictures we have from May 2005 surprise trip to Italy...
Another one which involved sleeping in tents, sadly the tent went too many places and right now, its resistance towards rain water is running low. We were at a camping ground in Venice, just outside the city since no vehicles are allowed to drive through. In this camping ground we were surrounded by just caravans and the families making vacations travelling around in them. Our vacation vehicle was a cute yellow car loaned to us by Matthias's mom with the usual camping equipments in them.

Venezia camping site....

Matthias with his outdoor cooking skills, looks simple but he whipped mean spaghetti out of it.

Breakfast from top left clockwise direction: Fresh milk, coffee cake, Quark (something like yogurt), pretzels, chocolate spread, bread and shrimps (SO YUMMY).
The 2nd mode of transportation next to on foot... river taxis. Charming! I can always imagine flute music accompanying these boat rides...

I am around 168 cm tall.. so apparently, the Italians of the past were much shorter before evolution, or was this built for war matthias???

The city centre square of Venice, we never needed a map, all u have to do when u explore is to be lost, trying corners and little streets and every turn u get a surprise.

Little Andi (I remember the boy's name) was so amused by the pigeons he went around trying to catch them... So many thousands of those filthy birds!!! Argh!!!!

Lorenzo Il Magnifico, one of the important historic figures who made Italy as what it is today. Don't ask me for the detailed story about him, Matthias can tell it like he knows the person himself! Like I said, Germans are always extremely good in their history facts, issin't it?

Random beauties....

Random beauties trampled...

Not forgetting one of my favourites.... Spaghetti Vongole!!!!!!!!! YUMMY!!!!!

These are only pictures of Venice, too bad I can't show u Pisa and Florenz from the trip as well...

I remember what u said to me during the trip, 'Life is beautiful.' Indeed it is with u.