Your wife, your car and her sense of direction

I don’t want to seem the usual Italian macho making jokes about women and their sense of orientation, but… after 2 years trying to show my wife how to get directions reading road maps / road shields / flock shapes or animal bowels I give up

Amazing Steven Wood’s Tag Galaxy

Do you want to a have a look on all the pictures loranablog published on Flickr? Just go on Tag Galaxy, enter the tag loranablog and press on Go. Click on the planet Loranablog and click on the pictures composing it. Then click on the panel with the picture you clicked to see with better resolution. Amazing!!! Of course Tag Galaxy works with every other tag, showing all pictures related to your choice. Give it a try!!!

Ebenalp: another Paradise Switzerland

The Appenzeller region is always full of beautiful surprises. This time we went up by cable car to Ebenalp, then we went down to Seealpsee through the prehistoric Wildkirchli caves. Another wonderful and lucky day in Switzerland. Watch our picture on Flickr. Click HERE.

Neuchâtel and Bieler See shot with a EF 70-300 mm

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Nice food, really nice food in Neuchâtel at Le Maison des Halles. Not only for food we went to the Neuchâtel lake region, but especially for a bike tour. We rent two light and comfortable mountain bikes at the station (28 CHF per day) and we had an 8 hours tour from Neuchâtel to the Sankt Peter insel, biking along the channel connecting the two lakes and having a quick stop in Le Landeron.

Better you watch our picture in Flickr (CLICK HERE to open this picture set page) to get an idea of what we did. Practically every picture has been taken with my EF 70-300mm, f/4-5.6 IS USM … enjoy the nice light and focus effects obtained with it.

Ticino I love you

We had 3 wonderful days in Ticino (CH) last weekend. A lot of sun, friendly people, astonishing panoramas and very good food. What could we ask more than this? Thanks to Luigi for giving us all the tips for this unforgettable holidays. To better show you the places we’ve seen, Lorana opened a Flickr account. In this way, you can enjoy our pictures in full size format … and much more. Below instructions on how to use the Flickr service:

Why did this happen to Rome?

This man on the video above, Francesco Rutelli, candidate by the left Italian party to become the major of Rome, did not win the elections. Hard to believe, uh?

Spring break on Walensee with my EOS 450D

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Sun came just in time to test my new EOS 450D. Although we reached the trekking spot around midday and the weather turned misty, I am very satisfied of this first field test. Watch the show above to get an idea of the nice day we had walking from Weesen to Betlis Wasserfallen or check some of the nicest original size pictures of today:

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Nice memories from the old town Andermatt

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One day we will show these pictures to our nephews and we will say: “Look how beautiful was Andermatt before Mr. Samih Sawiris was allowed to build there his goddamit golf club …”

Italian is NOT a Swiss official language.

I can understand if on a Swiss restaurant menu they serve “ficaccia” instead of “focaccia” (focaccia is a typical Italian bread - ficaccia has something to do with sex …). I can understand if the announcements on Matterhorn-Gotthard trains are only in French, German and English. But, click on the post picture and read the signal: this is REALLY too much. This shield is in Sedrun.

Boycott Orascom and visit Andermatt, before it’s too late!!!

We had such a nice time in Andermatt (Canton Uri, CH) this Easter.The village is ancient and lovely. Andermatt ski resorts are amazing and well connected with other regions by the romantic Matterhorn-Gotthard train line (train tickets included in the skipass). The natural panorama offered by Swiss Alps is breath taking and Andermatt inhabitants are so friendly and warm that we felt at home since we arrived.

But, what we learned there left us terrified. The Egyptian (!) company Orascom Hotels and Development (”Building better towns” is their motto!) has some evil projects for the lovely town of Andermatt.