Absolute delicious creatures those lemurs!
Their home country is Madagascar, although you of course see them in zoos everywhere. You have to actually have them touch you to know that they have wonderfully soft black velvet hands; you know that when you feed them bananas, or even better, lychees, which they love even more. These ones are used to tourists, at the hotel there, but when you get to the poorer parts, they do not come to you at all, because the poor people eat them.
Hungry or ...curious?
Valter Olmi 4616 days ago
Gracie Valter! I do not speak Italian, but thank you very much for having made this comment because I only now realize that I did not put my text at the right place when I started posting pictures. So I just moved the text up, thanks to you! I honestly believe they were more hungry than curious, but who knows, maybe you are right and maybe they love touching humans as much as I loved touching them! Never imagined they would have such soft hands! You have wonderful pictures of Italy, places I have never been to such as Capri. I was only in Rome and Milan and once skiing (but no pictures of that), oh and in Lago di Como (by boat from Sankt Moritz). Ciao bello is about all the Italian I speak!
Beatrice De Vis 4615 days ago
These lemures were not the least bit agressive Ron. In fact it felt like really interacting with them, one waiting for the other to have had it's bite, no agression whatsoever, on the contrary : I felt like in Eden, one with these heavenly creatures.
Beatrice De Vis 4615 days ago
Ciao Beatrice, I share your reflections about the lemures you met. However let me confess that if I were there, in sight of a Beauty like you (as Ron stated in the 1st comment), I would be curious AND hungry...;o)
Valter Olmi 4615 days ago
You visited Madagascar too and saw all those different lemures (the white ones that actually jump sideways, the ringtail, the night lemure, the bear brown ones,...)? I bet you loved it too. Or no, I now see you were joking since you say "If I were there": I recognize the Italian talk there! Ron did not put it that clearly, or at least I believe he just used the nickname he called me by when I was young and beautiful: "The Beauty" , I do not think he meant what you seem to mean...? When a woman gets older and less perfectly beautiful, you Italians still manage to make her feel beautiful and sexy!
Beatrice De Vis 4615 days ago
You must be sure that I love all kind of animals, lemures included, that I know only by means of documentary; never been in Madagascar. Above all I love cats. About my joking, I hope you may forgive me, dear Beatrice.
Valter Olmi 4615 days ago
No harm done whatsoever Valter, nothing to forgive. Humour and universal love are what keeps us going! Have a great day and keep posting your beautiful pictures of Italy! Whereabouts in Italy do you live? I mean I read the name of the place, but never heard about it...
Beatrice De Vis 4612 days ago
The city where I live is the birth place of the great italian poet Giacomo Leopardi, in the region Marche, between Ancona and Macerata. Visiting my profile you can click over Recanati and see the map.
Valter Olmi 4612 days ago
Wiki says that's why it is called the City of Poetry and it seems to have some really beautiful historical buildings; also the city of the tenor Giacomo Leopardi and I now saw it's about in the middle of Italy on the east coast.
Beatrice De Vis 4611 days ago
The famous tenor was Beniamino Gigli...
Valter Olmi 4610 days ago
Right, exactly : the tenor is Beniamino Gigli and the poet is Giacomo Leopardi. Not being Italian, I must admit I had never heard of either. The only one I really know is Dante because my mathematics teacher used to ask me every time : "Beatrice como va Dante?" Is that the right way to spell it? And of course da Vinci... What's the weather like in Recanati? No problems with Medusa I hope!
Beatrice De Vis 4608 days ago
Beatrice, come va Dante? No problems with Medusa on the east coast, actually. The wheater is cloudy with some raindrops, temp is comfortable.
Valter Olmi 4607 days ago
We have snow since yesterday. Called a friend to go cross country skiing in the Ardennes but he was in England and no one else wanted to go... My mother gave us a very nice apéritif and since I liked it, she gave me a full bottle of Italian Disaronno, you must know this? I tried it yesterday pure, but it is a bit too sugary. She made it with fresh orange juice and that was really great!
Beatrice De Vis 4605 days ago
Yes, I know it, but I don't like much these bittersweets, they survive in the bottle for "emergency" only. Literally translating from italian "they are neither meat nor fish"...
Valter Olmi 4605 days ago
Try it with fresh orange juice, then it is a nice cocktail! My mother's invention I believe, or is this commonly done in Italy? 28 % alcohol though. What does "neither meat nor fish" really mean? Of course when you drink it pure a good whiskey is much much better.
Beatrice De Vis 4605 days ago
The last you said! Every pure distillate has his own soul, whatever you like. Woodford Reserve as a whiskey is a good example, but I like also single malt whiskyes from Orkneys, or some brandyes from France. Not to speak of italian grappa, of which the good examples are endless.... But always in small quantities. To be neither meat nor fish (that have well defined nature) refers not only to stuffs but also to humans.
Valter Olmi 4605 days ago
Added Orkneys to my list of things to try, still did not taste the Woolford's (at least not that I remember, since I do not drink whiskey every month). Does grappa mean whiskey or just any strong alcohol? Maybe in Italian it translates "they are neither meat nor fish", but I cannot find that in my online Collins dictionary, so I guess in English that is said "neither fish nor fowl". We are learning English together! Pitty I do not speak Italian, I could have practiced with you.
Beatrice De Vis 4605 days ago
The name "grappa" comes from the Mount Grappa and is a marc distillate, eventually flavoured with herbs. Neither fish nor fowl means the same, I believe. Ron and Ombra may state if is true or not. Don't worry about your english, that is much better than mine. It's nice to exercise! Pourquoi n'utiliser quelquefois le francais? Chaque langue à sès propres facons de parler... (j'ai négligé les cédilles, mon clavier est italien).
Valter Olmi 4605 days ago
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Wonderful pics of these amazing animals... particularly their ringed tails! Are they aggressive or passive when you are feeding them? Truly beautiful to see - including the Beauty feeding them!
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Ron Andruff 4710 days ago