Okay, well I’ve only been here for a few hours, but I think I’ve seen more dogs here than anywhere else in Italy.

This one was being good hanging outside a cafe, but he really wanted to come inside. It’s difficult for me to capture the scale of this dog, he was enormous. If my dog George who is 92 pounds put on a fat suit, he still wouldn’t be as big.

Then these two characters seemed like long lost pals. Or siblings?

Everywhere I looked, there were more.

For each one I photographed, there were 5 or 6 more that I didn’t. They were inside shops and sharing appetizers in bars. Little ones, big ones, old ones and puppies. So here in Varese, dogs seem to be the thing. I like Varese.