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Last week, my colleague Alex and I went on a business tour to various places in Italy like the Toscana, Cicciano/Naples and Teramo in the Abruzzi mountains to visit our Italian partners. They're all firework manufacturers.
The weather wasn't all that great, it kept on raining all day but temperatures were okay (around 12 deg C-ish).
I took a lot of pics, here are some of them:
Pirotecnica Soldi in the Toscana, our first stop:
Soldi - Storage room with various mortars, cables and other stuff:
On the autostrada just before Naples, we were heading for Cicciano:
My room at the hotel Il Cortile ("the court") - the bed looks wooden but was actually made of thin sheet metal and thus quite noisy:
Lemon tree in the hotel yard - yummy!
Yours truly on the morning of day two:
A large shopping center called vulcano buono, modelled after the Vesuvio vulcan in Naples, it's really huge:
Signore Fucito sen. at work in his work shed (Fucito Fuochi artificiali, Napoli)
The southern part of the hotel yard on one of the few sunny mornings, it started to rain again about five minutes after the pic was taken:
A foggy shot of the bay of Naples from the Vesuvio:
A visit to Herculaneum (Ercolano), an ancient city which, like Pompeij, got destroyed by a large eruption of the Vesuvio in 79 A.D.:
Dinner time at Mimi o Pazz in Cicciano - This was one of the best buffalo mozzarella (mozzarella di bufalo) I've ever had:
Setup of four daylight fireworks by four famous companies Ugo Lieto, Luigi Di Matteo, Romano and fratelli Di Candia in honour of S. Antonio Abate:
Lots of wonderful Italian cylinder shells:
Large shells waiting for getting loaded into the steel mortars:
The youngest member of the Di Matteo family carrying a large bomba di tiro for the opening of the firework:
The hotel pets Charly the boxer dog and his cat friend Lola:
San Sebastiano Celebration night at Avellino, about 20 mins. southwest of Cicciano where large blogs of wood get burned on the marketplace:
It was a lovely trip, looking forward to March when we're back to Naples again to pick up our orders.
The weather wasn't all that great, it kept on raining all day but temperatures were okay (around 12 deg C-ish).
I took a lot of pics, here are some of them:
Pirotecnica Soldi in the Toscana, our first stop:
Soldi - Storage room with various mortars, cables and other stuff:
On the autostrada just before Naples, we were heading for Cicciano:
My room at the hotel Il Cortile ("the court") - the bed looks wooden but was actually made of thin sheet metal and thus quite noisy:
Lemon tree in the hotel yard - yummy!
Yours truly on the morning of day two:
A large shopping center called vulcano buono, modelled after the Vesuvio vulcan in Naples, it's really huge:
Signore Fucito sen. at work in his work shed (Fucito Fuochi artificiali, Napoli)
The southern part of the hotel yard on one of the few sunny mornings, it started to rain again about five minutes after the pic was taken:
A foggy shot of the bay of Naples from the Vesuvio:
A visit to Herculaneum (Ercolano), an ancient city which, like Pompeij, got destroyed by a large eruption of the Vesuvio in 79 A.D.:
Dinner time at Mimi o Pazz in Cicciano - This was one of the best buffalo mozzarella (mozzarella di bufalo) I've ever had:
Setup of four daylight fireworks by four famous companies Ugo Lieto, Luigi Di Matteo, Romano and fratelli Di Candia in honour of S. Antonio Abate:
Lots of wonderful Italian cylinder shells:
Large shells waiting for getting loaded into the steel mortars:
The youngest member of the Di Matteo family carrying a large bomba di tiro for the opening of the firework:
The hotel pets Charly the boxer dog and his cat friend Lola:
San Sebastiano Celebration night at Avellino, about 20 mins. southwest of Cicciano where large blogs of wood get burned on the marketplace:
It was a lovely trip, looking forward to March when we're back to Naples again to pick up our orders.
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