Driving to a customer site in Italy I spotted a couple of odd shapes on the high tension power wiring in the distance crossing the autostrada. As we got closer I realized those two shapes were actually men, attached to the wires with harnesses. I can only assume they were doing some sort of maintenance inspection. Were the wires live? I suspect not. Even if what appears to be a safety rope connecting them to each other were perfectly insulated, you always have to worry about surface effects were the electricity can run along a ’skin’ formed of moisture (from humidity) and dust particles. But then who knows.

BTW this shot was taken from a moving car as we passed underneath the wires. Lucky I got it.

One thing you see a lot of in the older sections of Italian towns is what you might call creative wiring. No two jobs look even remotely the same.  Quite picturesque

Monument to Caserta’s heroes.

This statue is in a small park near downtown Caserta we walked past on our way to dinner. There are many statues in the Royal Park in front of the Royal Palace. Unfortunately we didn’t have nearly enough time to visit either of those.

Pulled over for a quick 2 hour dinner?

My trip to Italy (and Germany) was quite interesting, not work wise (everything went pretty much as expected). Getting lost for hours on the way back from the job site to the hotel despite GPS, being misled by the GPS into a pretty hairy situation, last minute detour through Munich on the way back to meet with a potential customer, loosing not only my rental car but also my sister in Mainz causing me to miss my flight to Amsterdam, unscheduled landing in Maine because of medical emergency, and finally not being able to watch the last 10 minutes of the X-Files movie because the plane started the landing process. There would have been plenty of time to watch the whole movie if they wouldn’t have had to reset the on board entertainment system multiple times. It had gotten confused by the unscheduled landing and must have thought we were on our way to India, insisting on playing one of those Bollywood Hindi movies (ever seen one of those?).

I wasn’t able to get nearly the amount of photos I’d hope to. I’ll put up the ones I did get over the next couple of weeks. Glad to be back except I do miss the food from the old country.