Mondo Italia

As I had a day off yesterday I took the chance to go and see the Mondo Italia fair in the Neue Messe in Stuttgart.
It is a fair about Italy (as the name might suggest) and yesterday's focus was on tourism which suited me fine as I am going to Italy for about a week this year.

First thing I noticed when entering the hall was this:



And then this:



Alex de Angelis bike:


Talma's bike from Valencia last year, the one he became WC on:


You could also enter a competition to win two tickets for the Misano GP and of course I did (okay, I have tickets already but you never know, they might be better seats )

The people at the San Marino stand were really cool. When I tried to talk to the only man there it proved to be a challenge, him not speaking German or English and me not exactly speaking Italian. But we managed. So I asked him a few questions bout the bike and when I jokingly said "No Valentino Rossi, eh?" he laughed and a minute later came back with a leaflet for the Misano GP that had a pic of Vale on the front *laugh*

There was yet more to see, lots of cars:

the Lamborghini




The Ferrari:






Some old cars:







The funniest thing I saw there was the "3rd international Pizza WC in Germany"



and the "1st WC of Acrobatic Pizza"



These two are the two raining acrobatic Pizzaiolo WC:



It was a good day all in all, despite Vale's bike (or maybe even himself ) not being there. I guess the fair was just a tad too small for someone of his caliber :-)