Mystery in Udine, Italy

This building is a bank, so the question for Ming Ming and Emile is why is there a church inside a bank?

The interior of the Church

Answer: in every city in Italy, there is a community bank that lend money to poor people with very low interest rate. They are often the only bank that is willing to lend money to the poor, and only a bank like this would have a church, to show that God has mercy. 
 

What is mama doing in Italy?

Before going to the Netherlands, mama came to Italy first, to attend a conference call "Visible Evidence", this is a big conference focusing on Documentary films (meaning movie that are about what have really happened, not fiction).

why is there a rabbit in the poster? a lot of people asked this question in the conference, but at the end we still could not find out.  

At one of the groups in the conference, mama presented a paper on Hong Kong documentary, the title is not the same as printed here (I changed it), the real title is "In the Aftermath: Post-2019 Hong Kong Documentary and the Cinema of Repair".

there is a champagne reception at the end of the last day of conference.

Mama also go out for dinner with friends at the conference. 

 

last day at Athens

the olympic stadium 

dinner with Diane, Katula, and Demetri

and the next morning, Emile and I headed back to Singapore while Ming Ming followed Mamie and papou to France for a three-week stay

Epidaurus, Mycenae, etc

The impressive ancient theatre of Epidaurus

the stadium and odeon of Asclepius, basically the first hospital in the world

no matter where we are, one of Emile's passion is to look for ants, follow them, and sometimes to find ways to kill them

artemis 

another way of keeping Emile engaged is to look for images of dinosaur, here is a spinosauraus emerging from water

we end the day's visit by going up to the citadel of Nafplio

full moon back at kiveri

Mycenae, the tomb of Agamemnon, is one of the most impressive sites in Peloponnese

Emile is obsessed with Medusa, after I told him the story of Perseus, who is the founder of Mycenae according to the myths; and with Hydra and the hero that killed it, Hercules. Hercules is related to Mycenae as it is for the mycenaean king that he performed his ten famous labors. 

climbing up to the mycenae citadel

back at the beach outside our apartment

a day at the beach

breakfast with the greek myths, ming ming retelling to Emile

a hike around a beach in Nafplio

drawing on tree barks