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Hailstorm in Summer on September 19th, 2014

#somethingnew #fromwhereIstand #wheatherphenomenon - stood on about 10cm thick of hails 


I'm from the tropic, so at first I was scared but then I was quite amused to see that much of ice cubes poured down from the sky with lots of noise on the roofs...in summer! Good thing was that the storm stopped right at the time I had to leave the house for work. It was such a joyful bike ride on the road covered with lots of hail and through some thick fog. I found that day....so amazingly entertaining!!



Dark sky above the city center of Florence. Image courtesy of florensics.wordpress.com


The sky looked completely dark, “Oh no! It’s going to rain!” I said to myself. I had to go to work at 13:30 every day and the fact that the sky was so dark made me a bit reluctant to go out. However, no matter how I felt, I had to get ready and go anyway. A while later, I heard ‘bang bang’ at the backyard. I thought, now what?  It sounded like a neighbor was getting himself busy before the rain comes.  I went quickly to the kitchen window to have a look, but I saw no one outside. And the ‘bang bang’ continued, this time harder and even harder when I stood in my dining room. Then I realized, the sound came from the roof and the attic above my dining room sounded as if it was going to collapse.


A Highlight on Firenze #bikewalk for Instagrammers on September 6th, 2014


the view of Florence from Lungarno Benvenutto Cellini

I saw the announcement of this Firenze #bikewalk event last week on the Florentine after I came back from our holiday. So I shared it to our Indonesian Community in Tuscany on Facebook page. Unfortunately none of the ICT's friends interested to join. I personally interested in the event as it was related to a popular photo-sharing application, Instagram. My goals was to find new friends.


The bike ride started from the meeting point right at la piazza della basilica di Santa Croce (the square of the Holy Cross cathedral). We biked to the area of San Ambrogio  and had a little stop in front of Parrocchia di San Ambrogio, at the fork of Via di Mezzo, Via dei Pilastri and Via Giosuè Carducci met with two long busy roads of Borgo La Croce and Via Pietrapiana. There were about 70 people joined this #bikewalk event, the name of the event was actually really fit to what we did, it was really a combination of bike and walk (with our bikes), and chat whilst waiting for the rest of the participants to gather.