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Italian fotovospominaniya

2008 was very nice. Firstly, it was a leap year, and secondly, it began on Tuesday, which in itself is amazing! The year was full of events - good and bad, funny and sad, and not very memorable.

Petersburg's Zenit won the UEFA Cup, and then nobody wanted the Super Bowl!
Russians took the gold at World Hockey beating my current fellow countrymen in their own territory!
Heath Ledger passed away, leaving us the memory of one of the best kinozlodeev of all time - the Joker Nolanovskom in Batman.
sorcerer and wizard Guus has managed to "foolish pedestrians" © to reach the semifinals of the UEFA European Cup!
In Russia, came to power Dmitry Anatolich was delighted hypothetical 70% of the Russian electorate, well, Comrade Putin distanced himself near the throne.
Beijing passed the next Olympics game in which the Chinese again clearly shown that they step away from winning the world - ollo, the universe of danger!
Russia and Georgia are not divided Tskhinvali and surroundings.
Somali pirates seized the Ukrainian Faina, which is all of a sudden somewhere someone was carrying something and ammunition. Homeland long resisted only 2.5 months later, still drew attention to the fate of seafarers.
Lewis Hamilton a controversial champion of Formula 1.
In Mauritania, a military coup.
In Addis Ababa, was put into operation trolley urban transport.
And, finally, into the Schengen zone once and for all, abolishing border control, to take new members, among them Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, the Baltic States, Malta, Slovenia.

It was the last event made 2008 such a memorable and unforgettable. Thanks to newfound friends in Slovakia, we were able to easily and seamlessly obtain a Schengen visa and pokolesit Europe is absolutely free, without any travel agencies and tour operators. Have felt a whiff of capitalist freedom, so to speak.

First, in May month, we got to the first independent international travel on the route Kyiv-Bratislava-Vienna-Milan-Florence-Siena-Vienna-Bratislava-Kiev. Travel, deserving of the three volumes of memoirs. Not even four volumes and a separate notebook with admiration abusive expressions.

After some 3 months, my wife so managed to miss in Europe that his wedding anniversary, decided to celebrate in a similar way. This time we tried a little to temper the wild enthusiasm and diluted with walking beach felting on the Sicilian coast. This time the route was as follows: Kyiv-Bratislava-Vienna-Sicily (basically, Taormina)-Bratislava-Kiev. Observant reader may notice that Italy, both times was the key tourist spots in our wanderings. Actually, this and my post.

I love Italy. It is very beautiful, interesting and photogenic. Billions of pictures from those trips are gathering dust in the recesses of my hard drives. It is time to dust off with a small part of this fotokuchi. Recently on Italomanii launched photo contest "ironic look at Italy." Not for personal gain, but for the sake of warm memories decided to participate.

If there are willing to support the voice, I will be grateful (to vote must register on the site). Although experience shows that there gathered a lot of flawed chestolyubivtsev, cheat my rating in every possible way, far from fair, to compete with whom I have no desire. Yes, and the mechanism of the photo contest is implemented by * the tumor - a blind, most importantly for the site - it is the influx of new users да скачок популярности.

Ну а вот, собственно, и ироничные фотовоспоминания, как конкурсные, так и внеконкурсные. Кликнув на конкурсную фотографию, You can get to the voting page for the photo. Clicking on the non-competitive picture, you can break the internet, so please neater.

As is known, Sicilian Mafia is, and the word "mafia" is not. But we, the naive country bumpkin, so wanted to give us a glimpse of this mafia, we imagined that they each chromium geezer ...

- I'll make him an offer he can not give up © (Taormina, Sicily, 2008)

... and sometimes not in chrome geezer :)

- Leave the gun. Take the cake. © (Syracuse, Sicily, 2008)

Italians - are lazy. Anything will do, to not work.

most coastal protection. (Syracuse, Sicily, 2008)

Who is not hidden, I do not blame (The ruins of the Roman Amphitheatre, Taormina, Sicily, 2008)

Generally, Italian home by themselves rather photogenic. If we take into account that the facade of this "shack" out of the promenade and pier, you can only guess how many years now that God is waiting for the return of his dandelion sailor.

Saturday postirushki. (Syracuse, Sicily, 2008)

Well, a few non-competition: