The digger continues with the garage destruction
Marconi, Arezzo and the Sagra del Maccherone Festival, Battifolle, Tuscany - 9th June 2013
On the first proper day of our return to Tenuta Il Palazzio, just outside Arezzo in Tuscany, Isobel meets up with former university chum Stefano, with whom we generally hang out for a bit and have lunch, plus a session exploring the expansive cellars in the family house in Arezzo's old quarter. That evening, Stefano takes us over to the Polisportiva Battifolle for the culmination of the 33rd "Sagra Del Maccherone" - a festival apparently celebrating wide pasta ribbons. At first sight, the scene looks like some sort of Sunday car boot sale and the location of the eating a bit like an army Naafi hut, but the maccherone (not to be mistaken with macaroni tubes) in combination with a traditional meat ragu proves to be very tasty. Before that, there's the ongoing and shocking demolition of the iconic Marconi factory near the railway station in Chelmsford.
next album: A Tuscan Winery and a Trip to Siena, Tuscany, Italy - 10th June 2013
previous album: Eye Open Gardens, Suffolk - 1st June 2013
The Marconi site in Chelmsford is cleared
There's not much left of the Marconi factory
The Marconi Building is currently still standing
In Southwark, the Shell shop has gone
A skip full of old Shell shop
Harry waits at Stansted Airport
Fred and Harry eat some prawn crackers
The snowy Alps
Harry's hair is all over the place
A view over Pisa and the Mediteranean Sea
A million beach bars and parasols on Pisa's beach
The docks of Pisa from the air
Big ships in Pisa harbour
The spoilers are up as the plane brakes
Our plane on the stand at Pisa
A nearby British Airways 737
Fred eyes up a pastry that Harry wants
Harry roams around
A butterfly on Nosher's finger
Stefano and family come over to visit for the day
The swimming pool
Fred gets out of the pool
A giant ant hauls off a victim
Arezzo park café
Suburban Arezzo's bins
We do lunch at Stefano's family pad
Fred plays around with something
An overgrown garden
Peeling paint on a door
A load of old wine bottles lurk in the cellar
Old bottles in wicker, and 1960s Fanta bottles
Stefano and Isobel inspect the cellars
Old bird cages
A cellar's-eye view of the garden
The overgrown garden
Stefano shows us a field out the back
A pair of distressed garden chairs
Isobel pushes Harry up the street
'Hello Moto' graffiti from around 2006
This football pitch is not quite match-ready
lots of car scrapes on a very steep hill
Old man on the cathedral steps
Some dude statue looks out
There are clothes-line installations all over town
Fred looks up at the 'washing line' installation
Clothes over Arezzo
Some phallic sculptures
Arrezo back street
Another installation on the Corso Italia in Arezzo
Everyone eats gelato on the Corso Italia
Outside the Cremi Gelateria
Passers-by inspect the pile of books
Crumbling sign on a building
Fred gets a stone in his shoe
Stefano, Isobel and Harry on the street
Fred looks in a gallery window
More installation: 'Art has no sex'
Café culture
Fred hangs out with Sofia
Italian graffiti
A nice old-fashioned tabacco shop
Harry - Baby Gabey - and Isobel
Stefano, Harry and Isobel
The Sale e Tabacchi
Hanging ornaments
Isobel with Fred
Fred and Sofia hang out like teenagers
Some more art installation: coffins and trees
Fred inspects an old door
A graffiti's underpass
Part of Il Palazzo's 500 hectares of vineyard
We queue up at the Sagre del Maccherone festival
Fred up a hill
Stefano places an order
Isobel and Harry wait for food
Some pasta comes out
Harry gets stuck in to some antipasti
A gang of noisy teenagers celebrate
Harry sucks the meat off a spare rib
A packed room of diners
Outside, an original Fiat Cinquecento
Our table
Harry tries to escape
The 'restaurant'-cum-shed
Cinquecento, and an Italian-flagged moped
There's a mini funfair nearby
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The digger continues with the garage destruction
The digger continues with the garage destruction
The Marconi site in Chelmsford is cleared
There's not much left of the Marconi factory
The Marconi Building is currently still standing
In Southwark, the Shell shop has gone
A skip full of old Shell shop
Harry waits at Stansted Airport
Fred and Harry eat some prawn crackers
The snowy Alps
Harry's hair is all over the place
A view over Pisa and the Mediteranean Sea
A million beach bars and parasols on Pisa's beach
The docks of Pisa from the air
Big ships in Pisa harbour
The spoilers are up as the plane brakes
Our plane on the stand at Pisa
A nearby British Airways 737
Fred eyes up a pastry that Harry wants
Harry roams around
A butterfly on Nosher's finger
Stefano and family come over to visit for the day
The swimming pool
Fred gets out of the pool
A giant ant hauls off a victim
Arezzo park café
Suburban Arezzo's bins
We do lunch at Stefano's family pad
Fred plays around with something
An overgrown garden
Peeling paint on a door
A load of old wine bottles lurk in the cellar
Old bottles in wicker, and 1960s Fanta bottles
Stefano and Isobel inspect the cellars
Old bird cages
A cellar's-eye view of the garden
The overgrown garden
Stefano shows us a field out the back
A pair of distressed garden chairs
Isobel pushes Harry up the street
'Hello Moto' graffiti from around 2006
This football pitch is not quite match-ready
lots of car scrapes on a very steep hill
Old man on the cathedral steps
Some dude statue looks out
There are clothes-line installations all over town
Fred looks up at the 'washing line' installation
Clothes over Arezzo
Some phallic sculptures
Arrezo back street
Another installation on the Corso Italia in Arezzo
Everyone eats gelato on the Corso Italia
Outside the Cremi Gelateria
Passers-by inspect the pile of books
Crumbling sign on a building
Fred gets a stone in his shoe
Stefano, Isobel and Harry on the street
Fred looks in a gallery window
More installation: 'Art has no sex'
Café culture
Fred hangs out with Sofia
Italian graffiti
A nice old-fashioned tabacco shop
Harry - Baby Gabey - and Isobel
Stefano, Harry and Isobel
The Sale e Tabacchi
Hanging ornaments
Isobel with Fred
Fred and Sofia hang out like teenagers
Some more art installation: coffins and trees
Fred inspects an old door
A graffiti's underpass
Part of Il Palazzo's 500 hectares of vineyard
We queue up at the Sagre del Maccherone festival
Fred up a hill
Stefano places an order
Isobel and Harry wait for food
Some pasta comes out
Harry gets stuck in to some antipasti
A gang of noisy teenagers celebrate
Harry sucks the meat off a spare rib
A packed room of diners
Outside, an original Fiat Cinquecento
Our table
Harry tries to escape
The 'restaurant'-cum-shed
Cinquecento, and an Italian-flagged moped
There's a mini funfair nearby