06/09/2023

The HIVE Tour - Episode 63 - Surprises during my stay at a Venetian farm

Not only the farm I've just arrived to stay here in Italy is located at a piece of heaven (more on that later but you can already check the link) but I also have a rather generous host. My only problem is that I have to squeeze my poor Italian to start cooking cause I am more than hungry:


Of course, Google is still a friend of ours so 1st world problem solved. Besides, who can complain with fresh eggs in their fridge and fruits on their table, all organic as it gets?


There's nothing more helpful than this cause it allows me to go shopping another day less tired - now I'm hungry and I have several hundreds of km on my back. And several thousands of them on the current trip. Say seven instead of several and you get the picture.

When I'm all done and after some sort of short rest I step out of my room (better say apartment) to see what is what - the view out of the door is already anything but ugly:


As I step down to the main building I'm impressed by this wall which actually tells the whole story of this place:

You do feel welcome here indeed and not just because of this sign:

Speaking of this sign though, pay attention to that weather indicator - it works!

Lucia the owner generously offers me a tour around her property and we start from the basement where this pretty old mill is located powered by the water of the local stream:


Pretty impressive to see this piece of history still alive and working right? As you see it's busy with corn at the moment:

Next to it is a less old but still very old mill which came here back in the day all the way from Zurich:



Lucia proceeds in showing me more pieces of her antiquary so I get to see these clothes:



The middle one above is a wedding dress. Even the kids of the bride might not be among us anymore.

Here in North Italy it snows so here's a slay from the days that people didn't even have a landline:


Of course some traditional ski gear is here too:


I didn't expect to find rollers though:

Let's go back to the mid 50s now, ladies and gents, here is the mighty Remington Super 60 electric shaver:


Back in the day many Greek villages were not even connected to the country's power grid and this was only 2 decades after the first electric shaver was ever massively produced.

There's no end to these old items, one can spend days in here to pay attention on every single one:



This mosquito trap though stands out 🙂

So you put sugar and water in it and the mosquitoes stay inside this heaven forever.

There's so many things that I feel sorry I don't have the time to watch closer every single one of them:


This collection of old clocks with that wooden kid in the background really speaks for itself:

Who loves old sewing machines? Be my guest while I am Lucia's guest:


All very impressive undoubtedly but surprises are not over yet. Lucia shows me a book that her father had as an officer of the Italian army back in the WWII days. As I open it my jaw drops dead on the floor. The guy had detailed hand drawings of the areas where battles took place back in the day! Have a look:




We are talking about the Greek-Albanian borders (you can see for example "Argirokastro") and you can clearly see that he refers to the 29th regiment of the artillery of Modena. The whole book is in immaculate condition which is beyond impressive. How times change right? The guy was killing my grandfathers and today I share this piece of history with his daughter. Wanna hear one more jaw dropping coincidence? I have the same birthday with his daughter! A couple of decades earlier though...

Stay tuned cause I haven't even showed you around this farm yet. See you on the next one!

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