Brother and sister

My chldren at the seaside,taking a walk: nothing planned, just a sudden hug reminds me how nice it is to have a brother or a sister to cling to!

Lavender

At the seaside, there are big bushes of lavender along the beginning of the beach. When you walk by, you hear "zzzzzzzz" .. not a soft sound, but a strong sound made by the many bees working on the flowers!

Santo Stefano Fair III

Also the local scout group has its own stand at the fair. Not a food stand thought! A stand were you can play. A wolf is sitting on a board, high up on a huge wooden bucket (the ones used to press grapes when making wine). People can throw balls to hot a target: if you get it, the wolf falls in the water!!! You can get 3 balls for 2 euro. Last year the scout group got to go to their summer camp without expenses: all the money needed was raised at the fair. Isn't it nice (and clever)?

Santo Stefano Fair II

After having dinner at the fair, tradition brings you to the amusement park built for the fair. Merry-go-rounds for children, rollercoasters for teenagers. The amusement park closes after the end of the fair and everything is collapsed and brought away, to the next fair: the amusement park is property and brought around by nomads.

Santo Stefano Fair

Anther shot taken at the fair that we are hosting in these nights. Near the Cathedral, people sit and have dinner with typical fair food: barbecued meat, fried fish, chips, hot dogs and so on. Lots of beer and wine are running on the tables too! Each stand is sponsored by a local association or movement: the Red Cross, the Blood Donators, the Basketball team, the Volleyball team, the Concordia Men's Choir and so on. They all use the fair to raise funds for the future activities.

Picowso

For Concordia this is a "hot" week: for 5 days, we are hosting the fiera di Santo Stefano (roughly Saint Stephen fair). This is the most important period of the year in this small countryside town. Saint Stephen is celebrated on the 5th of August. For 5 days and nights, people walk around stands, eating, buying, taking a look at new models of car, boats, agricultural machines and so on. And children enjoy merry-go-rounds and rollercoasters. Children also get to ride the Police's motorcycles and to visit the ambulance.

Sunflower

It is definitely "full summer" for us here now. In the past, August was the month for vacation par excellence. In August most factories and big plants close the production or diminuish it a lot, and all workers had to get their vacation in this month. It is still so even though less than 30 years ago. Factories close now for a month, but who works in offices often gets the chance to go on vacation in other periods of the year.

Have a nice summer!

Piazza Roma by night (II)

This is the follow up of yesterday's picture: the entire square with the peculiar street lights. As you can see, the project that won the contest also used some archaelogical elements to decorate here-and-there the square and put wooden and concrete benches to sit.

The square is quite nice made this way. As a citizen, however, I must say that the square has too few green spots, especially trees, and in summer you realy cannot get out there and take a walk: too hot.

Piazza Roma by night

Some years ago, the Municipality of Concordia made a public contest for the renovation of a town square, piazza Roma, near the river Lèmene. Many local architects and engineers participated, by the way, my husband did too (he was classified 5th). The project that won planned it looked peculiar, but now we are used to it and it looks interesting. On the picture, the lights (embedded in an iron structure).

Children love rain

Children love rain. All children, I guess!