I took a lot of pictures in the days of the 27th TAN, last April. I am not sure about what these people were doing but the name of the boat, “Lodoletta”, is the title of a minor opera of Pietro Mascagni.
Seamen on an inflatable boat for routine trips from the “Porto Mediceo” to the “Accademia Navale”.
During a practical lesson around the port, a boatload of students of the Nautical Institute “Alfredo Cappellini” can have a close look at the tug “Alfredo Neri”.
Still roaming the streets of the “Shangay” quarter, we have found this proud lion “marzocco” watching the walls of a house.
We have already seen the house of the azulejos, but we missed this composition in a corner of the garden.
As you probably know we are in Paris and yesterday afternoon we had the pleasure to meet our fellow blogger cieldequimper of Versailles Daily Photo. We had a nice dinner together and we spent some great time chatting.
We were looking for the “Otto e Mezzo Studios” in the quarter of Shangay, when we found this house in “Viale Diacinto Cestoni”.
The facade is unusually decorated by a couple of azulejo panels.
I was trying to get the whole tall ship in a picture, when I saw that someone was using other techniques to do it.
The painter was not too far from completing his work.
Which, as marine paintings go, I find not bad at all.
This bus, parked in front of the Chamber of Commerce, is part of a franchise present in many cities around the world.
“Piazza Cavour”, sadly misspelled on the sign, is one of the stops of a 60 minutes hop-on-hop-off bus tour, which would cost 12 Euro.
City Sightseeing arrived here a couple of years ago and is an easy choice for a quick tour of Livorno.
Last Sunday even the rivals of the “Ovo Sodo”, winners of the last four editions, applauded the rowers of the “Venezia”.
“Magenta” and “Ardenza”, first and second in the “gozzette” race, qualified for the ten-oars “gozzo” next year. Last in the “Palio”, the “Borgo Cappuccini” has been demoted to a “gozzetta”.
The “Moby Corse”, built in 1978 in Denmark as “Dana Anglia”, is our local new entry in the Looney Tunes-liveried ferries of the Moby Lines.
Don't worry about the smoke, you usually see some only when the vessels are maneuvering, never in ordinary navigation.
A quite happy bunch, while the ferry is going slowly in reverse to her berth.
