Today Laurie, Jasmine, Dion and I travelled to Venice train. The purpose of my trip was to see Rear Admiral Maurizio Ertreo who is the Commandant of the Institute of Naval Studies at the Venice Arsenal. I had been in communication with Maurizio about certain Italian aspects of my book. Jasmine and Laurie spent the day looking around Venice.The Arsenal is an impressive building that would date back the 17th century. Maurizio had an apartment attached to his Headquarters. He was able to provide some useful documents and some leads to follow up.After the meeting Dion and I had a very nice lunch at a nearby ristorante and then ambled through the now familiar city.We then met up with Jasmine and Laurie at the station of the return journey home.As another part of Karen's birthday celebration,
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