Returning to the Castelvecca area, we took a nice stroll the the forest to see the waterfalls cascading from the top of Monte Cuvignone from a height of a hundred meters and carving out a space suggesting an amphitheater above the collecting pools.
Thursday 4 July 2024
cascata della froda (11. 662)
Wednesday 3 July 2024
maccagno inferiore (11. 660)
We took a nice stroll through the village and explored the oldest part of the settlement with the Oratorium Madonna della Punta, a sanctuary with grottoes at the head of the old harbour.
catagories: ๐ฎ๐น, ๐️, Middle Ages
Saturday 29 June 2024
il rocco di caldรจ (11.655)
Visiting the comune of between Luino and Laveno Castleveccana and took a hike through the frazione of Caldรจ to the Rocco, a promontory that first hosted a defensive castello in the early tenth century but was breached during the campaigns of Otto I against Berengar II.
synchronoptica
one year ago: Dancing in the Streets (with synchronoptica), an animatronic facelift, We Didn’t Start the Fire updated plus US supreme court ends affirmative action
seven years ago: the parable of the second arrow, rolling back regulations on pesticide use in the US, Trump goes to Paris plus the US united in quackery
eight years ago: weaponising toxic-masculinity, more on ISOTYPEs plus a Golden Mean pocket scope
nine years ago: a word for relating to pigeons plus assorted links worth revisiting
ten years ago: social engineering, an optical muezzin plus placebos and nocebos
Wednesday 26 June 2024
carmine superiore (11. 652)
Traveling back to Luina—which inherited market privileges from Maccagno—but not quite the showcase of local food and craft week expected, we returned to Laveno to take a ferry ride to the Piedmontese side on the lake at the port of Intra by Verbania and between the stretch of coast known as the Cannero Riveria—with same Mediterranean flair—and city of Cannobio, we stopped to explore an abandoned village—the lower settlement named inferiore though still populated.
one year ago: assorted links worth revisiting (with synchronoptica) plus the Pied Piper of Hamlin
seven years ago: low-Earth orbit being crowded out, mobile check-up units, more links to enjoy plus an IBM featurette
eight years ago: a camera carriage frame for car morphing, secessionist groups plus a potential UK constitutional crisis
nine years ago: more links to enjoy
ten years ago: the Wicked-isation of classic fairy-tales
Sunday 23 June 2024
lacus verbanus (11. 649)
Referred to by its Roman designation for the anchor community opposite Stresa for ages until properly surveyed in the seventeenth century (its true size not really appreciable due to its sinuous nature) Lago Maggiore—literally the greater lake—is second to Lake Garda as Italy‘s largest by area but the longest of the three sub-Alpine lakes, the above Garda and Como being the others.
passo del lucomagno (11. 648)
Crossing the Lepontine Alps between the cantons of Graubunden and Ticino, we made it up the Lukmanier Passand though navigable for hauling a camper trailer—lorries and buses also use the road—and with far fewer switchbacks than the Gotthard Pass, the hour-long drive was pretty daunting at points with curving inclines and construction but beautiful up the mountain and through the valley and we made it into Italy, taking in views of Lago di Maggiore from the banks on the Swiss side.
one year ago: assorted links (with synchronoptica) to revisit
five years ago: Mitja and the Microbes plus the world’s first time-free zone
six years ago: the US Nazi party plus the first gay marriage in Britain’s extended royal family
seven years ago: an innovative nest-box, propriety camouflage, alternative keyboard layouts, designing new fulfilment centres plus continuity of government contingency plans
eight years ago: German regionalisms, author Dan Brown sponsors the digitalisation of ancient texts, a snake shedding its skin did not go as planned plus Kill Billy
Saturday 22 June 2024
alpine passes (11. 647)
H and I were headed off for a couple of weeks of vacation in Italy via Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland but were turned back by authorities positioned along the road for the San Bernardino and to go back and take the Gotthard Pass direction Zรผrich.
Saturday 8 June 2024
ellertshรคusen see (11. 614)
Described as a deserted village since the fifteenth century despite joint efforts of the Teutonic Order of Mรผnnerstadt and the Bishopric of Wรผrzburg to resettle the area that never materialised, the artificial reservoir near Schweinfurt, the largest of its kind in Lower Franconia, was created in the mid-1950s in order to provide irrigation for local farmers and as a means to mediate flooding. The former use-case however proved not to make economic sense and the lake was eventually developed as a recreational destination with beaches, jetties and a nature reserve.
H and I joined another couple and stayed at an eccentric but very hospitable campsite in the forest just behind the dam that provided some nice personal touches, like welcome beers (Begrรผรungsbier), delivering your breakfast Brรถtchen order and handing out tiki-torches in the evening. There is no Dana—only Zuul!
one year ago: assorted links to revisit plus ventriloquism and witchcraft
two years ago: a banger from Tears for Fears, more links to enjoy, record temperatures plus the ash heap of history
three years ago: composer Carl Orff, America’s first supermodel, a classic from Procol Harum, more links worth the revisit plus corresponding city maps
four years ago: the Festival of the Supreme Being plus pipeline funk
five years ago: buried urban rivers