More photos. I hear it often. Post more photos! We live in a visual age. Words are so 20th century. Images!

We hear you! And now we have about 40 photos of, mostly,  Italy.

Here is the link to them.  Of if you want to cut-and-paste, here is the url in old-fashioned letters and punctuation: www.flickr.com/photos/beijingleah

And however you get to the page, you need to click on “Massa Lubrense.”

So, what are you looking at?

Leah will go in and put captions on these … soon. She hasn’t yet. It’s late, etc.

We have several varieties of stuff here:

1. A batch of walkabout photos. Pictures of the neighborhood we’re staying in. One of the front door of the house. Another black-and-white-ish thing of the gate to the street. Pictures up streets and down streets … all of them narrow. Photos up and down a 61-step staircase that takes us down to the sea. Photos of people fishing. Photos of the view.

2. Some photos of a pizza meal Leah and her parents had the other day. Nice pizza, si?

3. More photos of some primi piatti action on the terrace of our place. Those are wonderfully ripe and tasty tomatoes wedges and slices of mozzarella with a bit of basil on them … and those people are Leah’s parents chillin’ with some prosecco (sparkling Italian wine) to go with their tomatoes and cheese. Eventually, we took that dinner inside for the pasta course. And played four-hand Texas hold-em poker till about 2 in the morning.

4. And at the bottom we seem to have some photos of the apartment back in Abu Dhabi. Ignore those, please. We will see if we can get them out of there soon.

The point of this exercise is to try to pass on just how scenic and serenic (a word a friend of mine made up 30 years ago) it is here. Color and vegetation and views and the sea and good food. Most of the photos come from scenes we see when taking walks around the neighborhood, and down to the port. (I forgot to note the batch of photos taken at the tiny port of Massa Lubrense.)

For now, just getting them up. We will caption them. Really. Eventually.

Ciao!