off the grid this weekend...

Till next week, when I return from what should be a roller coaster ride starting in a town called Bolzano, after dropping off a van full of bikes for the start of a Germany tour, to Ferrara, the self billed City of Bikes, which should be a three-day-ride-see-camp-ride-eat-ride-laugh-ride-camp-write-it-all-down-unbelievable-story-camp-ride kind of trip, I will leave you with these gems, photos taken inside an old house nearby.

The story is that the US Soldiers took possession of the house to act as civil police as Italy reformed itself as a nation. The general in charge of the area efforts did a few remodeling numbers, namely scratching out the Nazi insignias, and replaced some of the amazing original fresco work with hand chalked pin-up girl art, of which he was fond. Aside form the shitty pin-up girls, the house is loaded with amazing hand painted ceiling and wall art, a few gems of old technology worth stealing (more on that later) art deco stair railings, and a really old collection of wine bottles, and some sort of bagged meat hung to dry out decades ago...amazing. and quite the little hott sunday evening mission.

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crucifix second story wall...









handpainted stencil wall paper...



can you see the nazi eagle and scratched out swastika?











A piece of the ceiling made by smearing plaster over the bamboo sticks.





and the really funky piece of dried meat hanging in the cellar, unless it was actually Hitler's head.

Expect some amazing photos next week, Im planning this ride now, and it is gonna be HUGE!! 3 days, 100+ km daily, and another story to tell....

Scotty