Uploading photos has been difficult, so yesterday’s comment about the scarf salesman appears in today’s photos. Rainy and chilly, again. The umbrella purchase is paying off. Evidently March was wonderful here, in the 80s, but not now. Everyone is in their winter attire, down jackets, scarves, and hats. Today, we rode a bus up to Gardone, Val Trompia, city in a valley north of Brescia that eventually leads on up to the Alps. The cities lie along the road in the bottom of the valley with hills/mountains going up from both sides. The purpose of this trek was to visit the Zoli gun factory where Art’s sporting clay rifle was made. Via email with a woman at the Museum of Weapons, I’d made a reservation to visit the factory, but I didn’t know exactly where it
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