Saturday, 28 November 2009





Triest

Friday, 27th November 2009


I am so happy that I could find an apartment in the center of Triest. It is my first day since I have been in Italy I do not stay in a hotel. My own kitchen, living room and bathroom with washing machine for all weekend. And the most important - fast internet which wants to cooperate with my Mac. So, it will be the weekend of catching up with work as I need to send the results of three weeks journey. Who knows when it will be next time of fast interent ....


Went shopping as I would live here and got confused with the choice of of different sorts of cheese and olives.

I felt the same in 1989 when moved to Austria and could not decide which kind of sugar should I buy. Well .... history likes to make circles :-).

Friday, 27 November 2009

Triest

Triest.

Finally got to writing. I need to to this just for myself - the days fly and each of them brings so much to remember.

My Italian adventure started three weeks ago. Exactly on 8th November 2009 in Milan.

My big dream for my professional life was and us to work internationally. And when I changed my profession and decided to become professional photographer I kept dreaming to continue this way of working.


So it happened. Here I am in Italy.


The purpose of the project is to travel through Italy and take photographs of the Real Estate belonging to my client. It means- to plan the trip, find hotels and more important - to find and photograph buildings. This is the challenge as the addresses are from time to time not very precise and in fact I need to ask locals for directions. That is life.

The portfolio consists of approx. 339 big and small buildings.

To make it more difficult - I do not speak Italian and more - my brain is working in Anglo-sas group of languages.


Nevertheless, I decided to learn Italian. Some words every day and talk, talk, talk. Just take easy myself and have fun ...


Memories of past days are coming in not specific order - just popping out.


So far I made a small tour through Lombardia, Toscania, Marche, Umbria,....

Oh this country is so beautiful after the season. I do not see other plates than Italian once...


3 weeks and more than 3000 km thanks to GPS directions and my capabilities of using this tool. It is my first time I have ever used GPS.

In general I do a lot of things the first time in my life.