More than a Friday in August next October seems, gray skies, rain, humidity, surreal atmosphere with very few people around, closed shops, was not even an anonymous Sunday in November. Since I do not work on Saturdays, I take this opportunity to go to the mountains, despite the bad weather forecast for the weekend ... promise targeting a luxury destination, Cortina d'Ampezzo . This time I visited the Navy Officers 'Club, but I can not be housed inside me that I did the' Objector .... and the waiver form to participate in the military. Already I'm afraid of being looked hurt crossing the threshold by the military that are inside. Thanks to the "bazzo" as they say in Bologna can give me a room in ' Crown Hotel, I looked at many hotels on the internet, but it is expensive and Cortina in August, less than 120 € per room is impossible to find . This historic hotel also has an annexe **, no bed & breakfast accommodation in the tradition of old-fashioned, it makes me a favor and I can snatch a ground floor room to a human price.
Cortina is a coveted goal by VIPs from all over Italy, is full of Roman Milan, I met the Mirabella and is full of conventions, conferences, in a tent set up beside the bus terminal. Meet Cortina, rich program, the first evening is a play about the life of Van Gogh, really well done with musical interludes 'noir'. Incredibly
free entrance! Seats occupied by old people of course from here 19.30, is a little 'smile clothing average tourist to Cortina. Elegant sweater, suede shoes, hair gray / white, BMW or Mercedes with the license plate that begins with E strictly with leather interior. Even the mountain of clothes is different from that found in other areas, more refined, opacity and colors snob. The Cooperative is under attack, strange supermarket which closes at lunchtime, and here there are Pakistanis, at least not yet. They will come sooner or later, when the generations change and will have to sell the houses to the Chinese or the Indians.
Things to do in addition to relaxing walks in nature to Cortina? Take the cable car
Arrow in the Sky: a more affordable price than Etna will take you to more than 3 thousand meters near the top of Tofana Grande, changing three cable cars. The final takes you on a terrace with breathtaking views , if it's a beautiful day you can admire all the Dolomites Cortina 3200 meters from a high place. There is also the cradle to catch the sun, which beats a lot here. Otherwise you can climb a ladder for the last 200 meters beaten trail leading to the top of real ... I ask myself but there are all these benches made of stone? Simple ... Take a walk uphill at this height, the pressure is different, in fact I feel a pressure drop in flash, a bit 'as when I took the blood, the vampires of AVIS.
unforgettable Vista anyway ... however, the holiday in the mountains is not exactly my ideal, the holidays are for me now a cultural point of relief. I prefer to go to places where you do not spend my days walking like a mountain goat to go "on top of that mountain over there" or lying in the sun like lizards, getting up only to drink beer as an aperitif.
Tsk. Luckily there is an alternative: it is called the Rules Museum Collection, Mario Rimoldi, great-grandfather of the owner of the Hotel Crown. It was an art collector, you are in its "treasures" on the second floor, a collection a bit 'narrow-limited to "cuts" more. However, I am a giant painting of Guttuso (Rimoldi has refused to sell it several times), lots of De Pisis, also views of Cortina, De Chirico, who missed several times has been here. They are almost all Italian artists on display here, really interesting. Unfortunately, to sacrifice an entire floor of design and photography exhibitions focusing on characters of the show, here in Cortina are the lion, and some expensive works (Balla) are left in the basement.
Coming up from London, then moving to Venice - Belluno, I noticed that some remote villages along the way taking advantage of the fame of a certain Mr. Vecellio, a native of these parts to make a loan exhibitions, starting perhaps more important and patched in beautiful renovated house ... and make it a nice round of money. Obviously this is not masterpieces, but give an alternative to the isolation of places to picnic and tourists who are in the area.
A little ' I think the 15 year olds in full crisis of adolescence, maybe trying to react to the attempt of uniformity prevailing behavioral ... forced to spend two weeks idyllic green and pristine, and the inevitable dinners with friends of their parents.
What do people Cortina? Up and down Via Roma, the inevitable tanks chatting with the neighbor, a friend of the walk, inconclusive, it kills time in fact. I, however, I stopped by a guy who carves wooden statues near the church of Cortina. Inside the store has an owl, alive and well, looking and scrutinizing anyone who approaches. The owner is a mountaineer who tries with all women pussies wooden (now will be used), with comments not unlike a worker who would Neapolitan straight after 8 months in the factory if they were male prostitutes in an alley.
Within a Cooperative suspicious, I buy a bottle of water, in fact I had been there already and I remember everything costs so much. In August 2010 I can take a ride before the coming of the great flood in Austria Lienz in East Tyrol, where the petrol is € 1.2 per liter. For me as a lover of the GPL, a passage from time to time in these countries is a boon, the full cost comes to almost 20% less.
I take a couple of balls mozart "and in nearby San Candido I live to see the pseudo-Baroque church of San Michele and Abbey ... and starts to rain badly, I do not have the time to stop to see the point of the watershed Mediterranean - Black Sea deluge of that bad.
Estate strange, summer is now over?
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