Monday, 7 December 2009

7th December 2009 - Valtournanche- Aosta






I am surprised that I write so much but every day brings so much that it is difficult to not write.
Back to work. I managed to take photos of 3 buildings:
1 in Valtournanche and 2 in Aosta.
The first one gave me much to think about driving in Italy. This subject comes almost every single day.
Had to drive again to Valtournanche as there was one Telecom building to take care of.
Started day early. The weather forecast was not clear in terms of snow and rain. For snow I got chains for rain - nothing- just summer tires.....

Everything was OK until I got on the local road 26. Curves and long queue .... of course behind me. And no chance to give the way the fasters ones. Ohhhh.... beeping again, flashing lights ....
I just wanted to stop the car, get off and kill all of them.... Aggression .... But no ... Was driving in complete silence ...

Arrived and than started - to find the building. Went to three places: a shop with souvenirs, laundry and even real estate office - nobody knew what I was talking about. I know my Italian is not a perfect one - but I do really do my best. You should see me - flipping pages in dictionary, using hands even making small performances.... But this time did not help. Someone finally gave me a tip - municipalio (town hall). And it was the right way.
They have a special office with maps, list of all buildings in the county. And the lady talked English. Just told them that I look for a Telecom - she asked if I want to have a map. In the end she draw me a lovely map and I run.
It started to snow - The building was exactly in the place she told me. It is quite to see the antenna - the building looks as a nice villa and is surrounded by trees and other properties.
I have never worked as fast as this time - sliding on pieces of ice, running on snow....
Snow flakes ....

Way back was very similar to the way up. Beeping, flashing....
To make it less painful I tried to find out which cars are the most frequent once in doing such noise.
Brand: BMWs, Vovlvos
Plates: starting with letter D. As mine.
Age of the drivers - does not matter
Sex - does not matter
Well ...

Anyway -came back home quite tired ....

Tomorrow a day off. Frederika from the village coffee shop is showing her painting in village church. She was working on it for a year. It will be after the mess.
I widh we had such great pastries as her parents produce. Will take some home. Typical Piemont ....

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