Travels in Italy • Miles & Janice DeCoster

Barcelona, 2009
Visiting Pat and Steve and seeing the sites of Barcelona and the GP of Spain.



Well, that is the subway in Madrid, but we got to Barcelona later in the day.



Barcelona Metro



Checking out the menu at Alkimia.



Santa Maria del Mar in Barcelona.



Kimi at the Circuit de Catalunya.



Fernando walking past Heiki's pits at Circuit de Catalunya.



Filipe Masa at the Circuit de Catalunya.



GP 2 practice, Circuit de Catalunya.

©2009 Miles DeCoster

March 2009 we spent a day in Milan on our way home from Florence. We saw some great things, but it rained all day. Sorry, no picture of the Last Supper. We saw it but security is pretty tight.



Duomo through a bus window in the rain.



Duomo with big screen TV in the rain.



Duomo interior (no rain).




Sforza fortress. Leanardo spent some time here painting and designing weapons for the duke.



La Scala opera house directly ahead.



Lobby of la Scala. Bust of Toscanini.



Shopping arcade. Yeah, that's a McDonalds.



Ceiling of the arcade.




Milan subway.

© 2009 Miles DeCoster

San Miniato sits on a hill overlooking Firenze, near Piazzola Michelangelo



View from the steps of San Miniato



Duomo from San Miniato



Detail of San Miniato



Mosaic on the facade



Interior of San Miniato

©miles decoster 2008

We worked on a theatrical production of Alice in Wonderland with friends in Florence. Janice did the costumes and Miles did the poster design and illustration and backdrop projections and animation. Our friends Elia played Alice and Shaun directed.









Elia (Alice) with Alice poster near the soccer stadium.

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The soup at Mario's a day after the calcio game.



"Gianni", a painter down the street on Via Romana



Alice poster in the window at Mario's



Action during the final home game of the season.



La Viola after the game.



Fiorentina fans at the final home game.

We went to the final home game for Fiorentina with our friends Elia and Filippo. Elia lives here but it was her first game! The stadium was packed and the weather was perfect. And la Viola won (and Milan lost) meaning we still have a good shot at fourth place and champions league next season.



Filippo, Elia and Janice.



Fans salute the team. No UEFA cup but we have a great team and a grand coach.



Frey makes an awesome save.

©miles decoster 2008

We ventured into the hills just north of Florence while Pat and Steve were here to see Fiesole, a former Roman settlement and now a pleasant suburb with a great view of Florence. It was a nice bus ride, but we ended up walking most of the way back as the buses were very crowded. Not a bad place for a walk however.



Romanesque church in Fiesole.



Another view.



Pat and Steve, with Florence in the distance.



Franciscan church on top of the hill.



View from the walk back down the hill.





The Duomo in the distance.



Tree in a wall.



Interior of Domenican church.



Exterior. Not just any Domenican church. This the church where St Dominic started the order.

©miles decoster 2008

In deveopment, a small Flash application to help learn Italian verb conjugations.

italian verb machine

Posting has slowed down due to lack of internet access and other projects. Here is the poster for Alice which we are working on. Jan is doing costumes and Miles is doing set design and graphics.

Here are some more pics from our trip to Nice.



View of the train station from our hotel window.



Museum of Contemporary Art, Nice.



A close look at corporate art.



Yes, a big cow in a tree.



Shoe repair shop window display.






French windows.



We know the French don't like foreign languages but ...



Où est le Musèe Marc Chagall?



A gnarly French tree.



Another French tree.



The Matisse Museum in Nice.



Front of the Matisse Museum.



Painting in the Matisse Museum.



Matisse is buried near the Museum.

©miles decoster 2008