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My First Abruzzo Photo Exhibition

If you’re reading this post then you either have a computer, a laptop, a tablet or a mobile phone. Have I left any device type out? I hope not.

But if you’ve access to any of these wonders of modern technology then you can attend my very first Abruzzo themed photo exhibition.

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I found this video via the Welcome to Sulmona Facebook page.

Normally I’m not a fan of videos of images set to music.

But this is special.

The description of the video is roughly translated as follows:

…This is a tribute to my land, from the mountains to the sea, its people, strong and gentle, [...]

We boiled up snow and ice to make hot strong Bovril.

That was a line used by Chris Bonington (mountaineer) back in 1979 when he did a television commercial for the beefy drink.

Some ads stick.

As we walked around Loreto Aprutino on 11 February 2012 I couldn’t get that line out of my head. [...]