Our man in Europe/dave delacroix/Here comes Johnny Love Muscle!/Part 9: CREMONA-MEMENTO

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/Here comes Johnny Love Muscle/Part 9:  CREMONA-MEMENTO


"To ANACREON in Heaven? We raise our glass to thee!"
(Old 1800's English-Naval drinking song)

Back to the subject of a DENTAL PLAN? I stilll hve some concerns. Yesterday? I bought TWO  round trip tickets from PIACENZA to CREMONA. One for ME, and an extra one...just incase my Alhzeimers kicked in... or if I had to catch the the train twice.

When you use an Italian railway station, incidentally, you're supposed to "punch" them (the tickets) in some yellow-slot-thingy: no-one told me/way too much for my brain.

So, I travelled to Cremona/ rode for free (...this Alhzeimers thing is starting to work out!), a tourist town where, according to local sources-people I met, was where Stonehenge was originally "in situ" (someone moved it!), 3 Giza Pyramids stood (someone moved them, too, or they eroded!), Romeo and Juliet "made out", (THEY moved on their own volition to Verona), the Borgias killed everybody, where the FORD motor Co. AND BOEING were founded, Tesla invented the "laptop"/ ALL Moon landings were launched from a nearby hillock, and the BEATLES cut their musical teeth in a Cremona cafe doing: "O sole mio".
It's a proud town.

Cremona's Basillica, built 1190, is,  of course, "to die for!" It houses the HOLY THORN (no jokes, purleeze!). However? For a.m. Vodka-Martinis/"My name is Bond; DAVE Bond: Double OH! -Bond; "licenced to chill" -BOND? -It won't get you 10 yards/meters past the Piazza del Commune (city square).... You're just another bloody tourist!... An a.m.  Bloody Mary?... Bring BLOOD.
 It's Florence on a shoe-string.

Luckily, I ran into Francis, Mario, RALPH! (whatever!), a "Luthier"; (makes Violins) -the Violin industry IS  a Cremona trademark: Stradavarias/Amati, etc. (NOT Armani!) The City - in THIS respect - has a long, proud and true tradtion and hosts over ninety independent Violin workshops.
You FIDDLE? -you BUY in Cremona. Fuckers with batons, dressed in tuxedoes are everywhere!

Stuck - in Cremona - for lunch? Try OSTERIA ARIANNA, 2 blocks N.E. of the Basillica; "via Ugolani dati" (street name) You'll be fine.

 Just DON'T mention my name....:)

c 2012/davedelacroix/piacenza/italy/Natale arrivee!...:)