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A review of the trip can be found here; it was a precursor to that year's Metal Camp.
| 30.06.2008 - RIMINI | |
| Rimini, from its own pier, haunted by some hairy troll... |
| More crabs on the rocks than in a goth's pants! |
| My best King Cnut impression, with much the same effect |
| The sunken arch: either it was designed for midgets, or once wasn't covered in soil |
| Ponte di Tiberio, from the northeast side |
| Ponte di Tiberio, from the southwest side |
| Arco di Augusto, from inside |
| Arco di Augusto, from outside |
| Rimini's excitable fountain |
| Fast food, Italian style: calamari and chips |
| 01.07.2008 - SAN MARINO | |
 | From Città di San Marino, it's a long way down... and most of those mountains are in a different country |
 | ...it's a long way up as well |
 | Palazzo Pubblico, San Marino's central government building, in Piazza della Libertà |
 | Looking down from Piazza della Libertà, one of the statues is mooning me...! |
 | Looking outwards into the Italian scenery from Piazza della Libertà |
 | From the top of the cable car you can see urban San Marino, Rimini (in the distance) and the Adriatic Sea... but not Croatia, which is 100 miles further away. |
 | Basilica del Santo |
 | A tour of San Marino's three towers starts here, with Guaita |
 | The actual tower, from inside the grounds of Guaita |
 | Guaita chapel: let's not go in there |
 | Cesta, the second tower, seen from Guaita |
 | Rimini (with the ugly tower block in the middle), from Guaita |
 | Guaita: the side view |
 | Now there's something we don't see in Britain: a lizard on the rocks! |
 | More Sanmarinese wildlife: a bee so huge it could join the Air Force |
 | The Sanmarinese answer to cave paintings |
 | One last look at Guaita |
 | Look out the hatches at the top of Guaita - any of them, in any direction - and you can see Italy without actually being in it |
 | Gelato! |
 | The second tower, Cesta, houses a museum of guns & armaments from the Middle Ages to the middle of the 20th Century... |
 | ...no really, there's a bigger arsenal here than what your average Texan owns! |
 | Guaita, seen from Cesta |
 | Blunderbuss! |
 | The third tower, Montale, seen from Cesta |
 | Montale itself, which has no entrance |
 | Cesta, seen from somewhere near Montale |
 | The ball-and-saucer sculpture donated by some Americans |
 | Those statues that were mooning me earlier |
| 02.07.2008 - VENICE | |
 | Now, I wonder where we might be... which city is this... |
 | Just east of Piazzale Roma, there's an aptly-named trattoria just out of shot called Tre Ponti... |
 | If this place was showing some of Leonardo da Vinci's finest works, in retrospect I should have had a look in here |
 | The statue of linguist and writer Niccolò Tommaseo, in Campo San Stefano (which also has a very useful drinking fountain) |
 | That important-looking building at the back is what Venice is famous for; the shabby building on the left is symptomatic of the rest of the city... |
 | Piazza San Marco, the most famous part of Venice of them all |
 | Basilica di San Marco... with the builders in |
 | ...and no, I didn't go in there, because that's far too much godbothery for one |
 | The other side of Piazza San Marco, housing about a thousand shops, all selling Murano glass |
 | The gondolas of Riva degli Schiavoni await their victims. At a hundred euros a ride (allegedly), I think I'll pass! |
 | Ponte dei Sospiri - which I found completely at random! |
 | The statue commands you to cough up all your cash for a gondola ride! |
 | The Venetian equivalent of a back street |
 | Looking over the water to Isola di San Giorgio |
 | I got lost, but this is somewhere round the back of the Asrenale, and there's a brilliant sandwich shop just off the left of the picture... |
 | Ponte di Rialto, each arch housing one shop selling more and more tourist tat |
 | An unusually quiet Canal Grande |
 | Yet another type of cathedral |
 | Isola di San Michele, which is almost entirely a graveyard |
 | The statue of Paolo Sarpi in Campo Santa Fosca... and someone's laundry! |
 | Did I say it was hot? I meant it was volcanic! |
 | Dinner at the highly recommended Alla Fontana in Cannaregio; for starters, yes, that is octopus. Chthulu fthagn. |
 | Course number two, pecorino and pears. The two go together fantastically well. |
 | Course number three of the Venetian specials: spaghetti alla vongole, and whatever the Italian word for king prawns is. Marvellous. |
 | ...and may nobody ever forget this. |