A wedding for two truly excellent people - a Dutch gal and an Italian fella - brought Elger and I to Genoa in northern Italy, where we spent the first couple of days navigating the shadowy, nearly claustrophobic streets with two other equally excellent friends - just some Dutchies, but they were too cool for school as well as big ol' nerds - eating all the brioche we could get our hands on.
On the wedding day, we Netherlands-originating guests stood and sat when the Italian guests did, and read along to the thoughtfully translated Catholic service in an ancient stone church in the hills, even cooler due to the cloudy day outside. Elger had his film camera at his side, and the D800 was my constant companion, although we and the cameras were just happy guests at this wedding.
Before we got to dig into what was sure to be the most epic meal of our lives - an Italian wedding reception in Camogli - Elger got horribly sick, and we were lucky to make it to the train station and then fumble our way back to the airbnb where we stayed in Genoa. Being home-away-from-homebound made the view of the alley below our sixth-story apartment my photo subject for the last two days, as well as getting caught up on "Knight Rider" and "Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan" with Italian overdubbing (thankfully, Shatner's voice yelled "KHAAAAAN"). I made several trips to the supermarket, as did our awesomely kind airbnb host, to stock up on medicine and Gatorade for Elger and pansoti and pesto, mostly for me - plus taking the excuse to snag more gelato.
It was a much more lived-in feeling city than Vienna, and that's more reason to love it. What we saw was fantastic, and maybe not this year, but absolutely some other summer soon, I will be back! Above all else: congratulations/gefeliciteerd/auguri, Sabrina and Simo!
On the wedding day, we Netherlands-originating guests stood and sat when the Italian guests did, and read along to the thoughtfully translated Catholic service in an ancient stone church in the hills, even cooler due to the cloudy day outside. Elger had his film camera at his side, and the D800 was my constant companion, although we and the cameras were just happy guests at this wedding.
Before we got to dig into what was sure to be the most epic meal of our lives - an Italian wedding reception in Camogli - Elger got horribly sick, and we were lucky to make it to the train station and then fumble our way back to the airbnb where we stayed in Genoa. Being home-away-from-homebound made the view of the alley below our sixth-story apartment my photo subject for the last two days, as well as getting caught up on "Knight Rider" and "Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan" with Italian overdubbing (thankfully, Shatner's voice yelled "KHAAAAAN"). I made several trips to the supermarket, as did our awesomely kind airbnb host, to stock up on medicine and Gatorade for Elger and pansoti and pesto, mostly for me - plus taking the excuse to snag more gelato.
It was a much more lived-in feeling city than Vienna, and that's more reason to love it. What we saw was fantastic, and maybe not this year, but absolutely some other summer soon, I will be back! Above all else: congratulations/gefeliciteerd/auguri, Sabrina and Simo!
