Here is our first walk after the snow. It was almost sad seeing this snowsomething melting away.
What we have known as the “Green Gas Station” is on the verge of being dismantled.
A crystal Santa staring at the camera from a shop in “Via Marradi”.
This is probably a wordplay joining “Deh”, our typical insert in a conversation, and “Gusto” (Taste) to make “DehGusto” (I degust).
Something colorful for the Holidays, in the usual “Via Ricasoli”.
Animals in a windows: quite cheap at 5 Euro apiece.
A more precious tiny fish: the price tag says 900 Euro.
Last Wednesday the Dutch Church made a tiny appareance on the front page on our local paper, along with an extensive coverage of the decay of the building in another page. Let us celebrate this sparkle of interest with an image of the only remaining (almost) intact window of the church.This is an excerpt from a video shot by Claudio Ceccarini during our visit inside the church.
Search labels: Dutch church
See also: Abandoned Church - Scali degli Olandesi - Chiesa degli Olandesi - Sad Preview - A lecture - Finale - Falling to Pieces - Flying Rats - Another Collapse - Fenced Off - Piazza Poerio - The Places I Love - A Few More Votes - Rose Window - Second Place?
External links: Temple of the Dutch German Congregation (Wikipedia)
Facebook Group: “Salviamo la chiesa degli Olandesi a Livorno” (Save the Dutch church in Livorno)
At last, most of Tuscany and even Livorno got some snow. Here is our “Fortezza Vecchia” dusted with white.
Palm trees on the “Pamiglione” (Old Harbor).
The southbound lane of the “Santa Trinita” bridge is blocked.
The “Scali degli Isolotti” and the bell tower of “San Ferdinando”.
A snowman outside a newsstand, in “Piazza del Municipio”.
The “Giglio”, named after the island of the Tuscan Archipelago, is the newest bunkering tanker of the D'Alesio Group's fleet. She is one of the now rare ships built in Italy, at the Giacalone Shipyard in Mazara del Vallo.
Here the tanker is feeding fuel oil to the ferry “Moby Corse”, with her distinctive bunch of cartoons.
Roadworks are much less traumatic for our streets now.
Digs look so neat like they were cut by some laser beam...
... and excavators look like oversized toys.
