La Festa di Santo Stefano
by Marc Gunn

The 26th is typically a holiday for Italians. It is St. Stephen's Day which marks the announcement of the birth of Jesus and the arrival of the Three Wise Men. That being so, Tiziano was off work one more day. So we headed to the mountains--Asolo in particular.

I've always loved Asolo. It's a cute little medieval town situated up in the mountains. The air is cool. It's small. And once a month, they host an antique market. I guess that's what I remember most about Asolo.

So we started the trip to Asolo around noonish. Stopped at one of the few open sandwich shops and I bought some prosciutto and a Swiss cheese that I think was Edamer. And it seemed as creamy as my ever favorite cheese, Asiago.

Well there was no market in Asolo, but I got some fantastic shots of the town and started learning some new features on my camera, like the Sepia toned photos.

Driving Back to Visit Vicenza

We finished there and drove back to Vicenza to visit the city itself. That was brutal! It's exhausting working your way through a town on crutches. And boy did I get hot. I seem to expend an enomormous amount of energy.

In Vicenza, I started messing with the night photos of my camera. I didn't have a tripod, so I had to do what I could. Namely, I used one of my crutches as a uni-pod. Worked fairly well, though some of the shots were a bit blurry.

The town is as beautiful as ever. And it was the first time I saw people coming in droves. I don't know what they were doing, mayhaps just enjoying the evening air. But everyone was out and about, walking around the piazza. We stopped at a piccola cafe for one of my many breathers and then made our way back home.

At one point, we stopped at a much needed bench in front of church that featured a Presepio inside. But I was too pooped to go there. So we waited while I took some more pictures. Then off we went to the car. I was planning on going to Venezia on Friday.

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