Playing around

Ingredients:
750 piece jigsaw of Ponte di Rialto in Venice.
Nikon D40 with remote and spare battery.
Telescope tripod on two legs to hold camera above table.
Patience.

IrfanView to rename photos in reverse order.
Img2Avi to convert 751 photos to one 62 second video.

A friend to rip O Sole Mio mp3 from a Mario Lanza video on YouTube.
Nero Wave Editor to extract 62 seconds of sound.
Windows Movie Maker to stick them together.

Crossed fingers.

Italy

In a previous post I mention Psychopath, where I used to play games online. The guy that used to run the site moved to Italy in 2005 to teach English to Italians. Me and my daughter have been lucky enough to be invited to stay with him on 3 separate occasions in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Here is one photo from every town or city we visited in order (apart from Murano and Mazzoboro, two of the Venetian islands).

Pratto della Valle in Padova (Padua to the English)

The Grand Canal in Venice, taken from the Ponte Di Rialto - it had to be a photo with gondalas really.

The Piazza Bra in Verona with the Roman amphitheatre, where they do open air operas, on the right.

Castelfranco (that isn't me in the photo).

View from the Ponte Vecchio in Bassano.
Cittadella.

View from the tallest Torre (tower) in Bologna.

Peschiera on Lake Garda

Sirmione - also on Lake Garda

An old bridge in Vicenza.

Ponte Vecchio in Florence (poorly placed sun).

View from the Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta in Torcello.

Burano.