Monday, August 31, 2009

Biffy Clyro Piano Sheet

30, 31 agosto - Savannah






La colazione che prepara Eleanore la mattina della partenza è un pranzo di nozze. C’è di tutto, anche un piatto di polenta che qui si mangia con il formaggio e che, in piena estate e alle 7 della mattina fa uno strano effect, but it is quite local customs, it's called cheese grits.
I take a couple of days to visit Savannah, Georgia. And 'one of the most celebrated cities of America for the beauty of its buildings and its history and all have advised me to do so. The Lonely Planet calls it a sleepy town and a little 'slut, "like a beautiful woman with a dirty face," but of great fascination for the presence of beautiful Victorian houses, half hidden by the big American evergreen oaks. These trees are covered with a " beard moss pending, Tillandsia, which is actually a plant with aerial roots, and that gives it a vaguely Gothic in historic districts of the city, un perfetto scenario per un film di Tim Burton.
Ed effettivamente Savannah ha avuto molto a che fare con il cinema; nel tour guidato che ho seguito oggi hanno citato almeno sei o sette film girati qui, tra cui “La signora in rosso”, ma quello che tutti ricordano è “Forrest Gump”, con la scena della scatola di cioccolatini sulla panchina della piazza. Ho fotografato la piazza in questione, Chippewa Square, che è una delle ventuno ancora esistenti in città e la famosa panchina. Ho anche pensato al fatto che a Washington avevo ripreso il Mall, teatro di un’altra scena famosa di questo film e che in fondo anche la traversata dell’America del podista Forrest Gump assomiglia un po’ al mio viaggio; ci sono the strange similarities between the two, but for now I do not want to pursue these.
said, and acknowledged the beauty of Savannah, one must also say that America is a young country and ever changing and the impact of an American city like this, with a historic 150 year virtually intact, with restored the old cotton warehouses, the avenues and squares, it is almost overwhelming, while a European, accustomed always to live in the middle of the story, it could simply say: well, not bad at this Savannah.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Cowichan Knitting Patterns

August 29-E 'South


I became quite good with maps, now I can tell by the terrain and other signs that may be the type of road to face the next day. Last night I focused on route 17, which skirts an area of \u200b\u200bforest, following the course of Savannah, and in fact this morning I see the tables in the "scenic road".
There are things that change than the area of \u200b\u200bthe mountains, while the humid climate and vegetation. You begin to see the magnolias, oaks and beech trees to replace, but in spite of the season the entire environment around it is green. Today I rode for dozens of kilometers in the midst of pine forests, and this makes me a bit 'surprised, I thought I found a desolate and arid south and instead is something else. Also change the faces that you see around, just north of New York was very rare to see people of color, the blacks here are the great majority, and even how to talk a bit is changed, the speech is slurred and slow, measured in especially at times difficult to understand. Cycling
often listen to local radio stations, and almost all country music forward, in addition to the ubiquitous radio sermons of evangelical preachers, and political debates on health care reform that were prevalent in the north seem absent here.
That does not change is the availability people. This morning I met a couple of cyclists on Sunday, Eleanor and Alfred, who, after a chat rite ask me where I'm going to stay for the night, live in the country where I'm headed, Statesboro, and I offer a shower, dinner and overnight at home. I agree and I remember Jonathan, Asheville, told me about the great tradition of Southern hospitality I know now that was not joking.