Fourth Bridge

There are several bridges in the Okowango Delta, in Botswana, crossing mostly swampy areas or small rivers.
They may look dangerous, but they are quite sturdy and offer a safe crossing.

Can you believe this ?

We made a stop-over in a pub in a small village in Northern Italy.
I visited a certain place, as one is wont to do from time to time 
and this is what I found:

Why ?

Why is the word spelled "lisp" ? 
Should it not be spelled "lithp" ?

Bertstravels wonders about things like that.

More of Northern Italy

As I told you before, we recently visited the Montasio Plateau and due to the existance of several buildings and artifacts we were reminded that in this area, but particularly in the area of the Isonzo river, viscous battles were fought during WW1 between the Italian military forces and the Austro-Hungarian military.
The Italian attempts to dislodge the Austrians from their strongholds in the mountains resulted in at least 10 battles of the Isonzo.
The death toll on both sides boggles the imagination. 
Of 600,000 Italian soldiers, half died and many more were wounded.
Of 1,200,000 Austrian troupes, about 400,000 were killed and many more wounded.

It is told that a field officer may have decided to capture a certain hill, launched an offensive, causing some 10,000 deaths, succeeded in capturing this target, only to lose it days later in a counter attack, causing a further thousands of men killed and wounded.
The hill, fought over in see-saw battles, had, in many cases absolutely no strategic or other military value 

The "Battles of the Isonzo" ( 11 of them ) resulted in over one million dead and many more wounded and resulted in no gain for one side or the other.

( please note, that 'Bertstravels' is neither an historian, nor a military expert and gets his information from reading several books and many entries in Wikipedia. )

This and similar buildings used to house military personnel.

Today they are used as cheese factories

Long overgrown bunkers

In the background there are living quarters, 

while the gun is exhibited here

as a museum attraction.

Army housing facility.

Another museum piece.

Although this area is best known for its WW1 theater of war,

the gun shown here looks to me more like a WW2 PAK

 The Five Finger Mountain

To the 'Montasio Plateau'

Yesterday we drove to Tarvisio in  Northern Italy, then onward  to
'Sella Nevea' and then another 6km to the Montasio Plateau, at about 1,200 meters elevation. ( a 2.5 hours journey from our home )
A steep, but well maintained, asphalted narrow road takes you through stunning mountain scenery directly to an 'Alm' where, they claim, Italy's best cheeses are being produced.
This, however, is the end of the road! Only a hiking path with rock climbing at the end will take you to the top of the 'jof di Montasio" ( the top of Montasio) at 2,754 meters elevation.
A bit too much for Christin and me.
Rather than climbing mountains I have to be satisfied with photographing them from the bottom.

On the road to Sella Nevea

A Village on the side of the road.

We have reached the High Plateau, The Alm,

where still many cows enjoy the lush Alpine grass

and the sunshine.

At the end of the drive-able road,

a rustic restaurant

and the Cheese production facility.

It's called "Millet"

This plant, which covers acre upon acre of ground

is called 'Millet'.

It and similar plants, which look like corn but bear no cobs, 

are used primarily for the production

of bio-gas, used for production of energy.

Millet fields

I know what it is...

...but I don't know what it's called! Do You ?