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Day 75: Bibione!

(February. 2009) Bibione is another resort town an hour’s drive north of Venice. There were some interesting houses on the way there from Caorle.

Bibione has a Mall.  Of course, it was Sunday.  This was the last car I saw for almost an hour…

There were lots of interesting buildings around.

Most were pretty colorful, and I think were kind of like condos or time shares…but they could have just been summer rentals.  These big picture windows look out on…the back of the Mall.

Either way, there was no one around.  Each of these covered things was a carport for one very small European car.  Most looked like they’d be ivy/plant covered in the summer.  Did I mention it had started snowing?  Harder?

Here is the back of another campground.  This is a ritzy place: note the air conditioners.  Camping in Europe is different than here.  People will put in a trailer or (very) small house into a fairly permanent campsite slot in a campground.  Some are camp trailers with extensive awnings and full furniture and all the comforts of home.  It is the equivalent of us having a cabin in the woods or a cottage by a lake, just a lot more people and campers in a much smaller area.

Along about this time I was getting a little spooked.  You don’t drive in Europe for an hour or more and NOT see anyone else…

The buildings and hotels were all closed and shutters were hanging by one hinge.  No one was around.  No businesses were open.  No lights were on.  There were no cars.  This town was spooky.

I started to feel like World War III had happened and I was the only one left with the fallout coming down…

Then: Other cars!  Someone else survived!

Then it was back to the beach.  It is a beach resort, after all.

And another half hour of no one.  This place was depressing.  When I finally found a coffee shop open across the parking lot from this place, which offered pizza, ice cream, a Germany Breakfast Bar, and Good Germany Bitburger Beer, but was closed, I didn’t even go in.  It had to have been pretty bad coffee to survive WW III!

~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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