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Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome August 2nd 1990

I don't know why the Italians bother with time tables, as they have absolutely no intention of following them. The train to Rome left late and arrived having lost even more time on the way. I arrived in Rome after getting a longer night’s sleep than I had suspected, but after several days travelling, I could kill for a shower. I decided to check out the facilities at the station and there were some showers, but it would cost me £3.50. As I was used to spending little more than that for a full night’s accommodation, I decided to go in search of a room. Absolutely no chance - everywhere was full to overflowing long before I arrived. Seriously running out of motivation, I decided to go and do the tourist bit anyway. After a fairly ... read more

Apr 16, 2015

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome October 8th 1988

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Italy: NATO Infrastructure Committees Visit

Europe » Italy June 8th 1988

Committee and Spouses waiting to depart from Melsbroek Air Base, Brussels

Home and Away

Our next NATO Infrastructure Committees visit was to Italy. I had been looking forward to this trip ever since arriving at NATO, as Italy is perhaps my favorite country in Europe from the perspective of all its history and art, and of course the food. For the first time Linda was unable to accompany me as my parents couldn't come to babysit Tamara (2 years 4 months) and Rosanna (8 months), as my Dad's health was deteriorating, and besides, we would be taking home leave back to visit them a month later. 8 June 1988 Wednesday. The committee members and their spouses gathered as usual at Melsbroek Air Base, shared with Zaventum Airport in Brussels. We boarded an Italian military jet for the two hour journey to Istrana Air Base, just north of Venice. Upon arrival ... read more

Committee and spouses arriving at Istrana Air Base north of Venice

Assistant Secretary General de Laat de Kanter with Chairman Van der Post and Cdr. Polese, the Italian Representative

Committee visiting airfield facilities at Ghedi Air Base

Bavaria, Italy and Switzerland with my parents

Europe » Italy April 17th 1987

Flying over the Alps

Home and Away

My parents had volunteered to babysit Tamara while we went to Portugal. We returned on a Monday and four days later the Easter holiday week began. We took this opportunity to take Mom and Dad for a nine day vacation to some of our favorite places in Europe. 17 April 1987 Good Friday. We drove from Brussels to Rothenburg ob der Tauber. On the way we drove down the Rhine River from Coblenz to Bingen to see the many castles that dotted this most interesting stretch of the Rhine before returning the the autobahn to Rothenburg. We arrived at Rothenburg about 3 pm. We stayed with our farmer friends in their zimmerfrei, the couple we had first stayed with some ten years earlier when we lived in Germany. We talked with them a bit before heading ... read more

Long weekend trip to Rome

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome April 15th 1983

View of Spanish Steps and St Peters dome from our hotel room

Home and Away

One exception to the norm of taking long weekend trips to Switzerland and the French Riviera from Stuttgart was the trip to Rome. My Mom flew to Rome from Thailand, and her psychiatrist friend Mary, who had previously traveled to France and Switzerland with us in 1978, flew into Rome from the States. Friday after work, we took the normal transportation for a weekend trip to a distant destination, the overnight train with reservations for two couchettes. The train departed Boblingen about 6:30 pm and went directly to Rome...quite convenient. We shared the six-bed couchette compartment with two older German couples. They were on their way to Ischia off the coast of Naples. Normally one sleeps in their clothes in the couchette compartment as you are usually sharing it with strangers. However, our new German friends ... read more

Pantheon - a 2000 year old Roman Temple converted to a church

Northern Italy Vacation with Steve and Kay

Europe » Italy » Veneto May 28th 1982

Castle at Sirmione

Home and Away

In the summer of 1982 Linda and Bob took a trips with Steve and Kay and their boys to northern Italy over an extended Memorial Day weekend. 28 May 1982 Friday. After work Linda and Bob drove to Oberammergau where we spent the night with Steve and Kay and their boys. 29 May 1982 Saturday. The next morning all of us drove in separate cars to Innsbruck, Austria and then over the Brenner Pass to Lake Garda, driving along the western lakeshore until we reached Sirmione. This town is on a peninsula jutting up from the southern shore. We checked into our hotel and then walked around the town and out the peninsula to the ruins of a Roman palace. It was a perfect day with a blue sky and lake with snow capped alps at ... read more

Kay, Linda, David, Steve, and Stevie in the far table ordering lunch in Sirmione

Linda and Kay at Roman Palace in Sirmione

Milan

Europe » Italy » Lombardy » Milan July 10th 1979

TeamDejo

Geo: 45.4637, 9.188131st trip... read more

Italy - Combining business and pleasure

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Tirrenia July 8th 1978

Cathedral and Leaning Tower

Home and Away

In July 1978 I had a business trip to Camp Darby, Italy near Pisa and Livorno to inspect and accept 77 ammunition bunkers into the Air Force inventory. I decided to take Linda along and add a few days vacation to the trip. We drove down on Saturday, stopping just south of Lucerne, Switzerland at a nice hotel on Lake Luzern. Then it was over the Alps to Lake Como and Pisa, Italy where we climbed the Leaning Tower. We arrived at Camp Darby on Sunday afternoon. There we met my Corps of Engineers counterpart, Mike and his wife Betty. We would become lifelong friends. Most of the weekdays were spent on the job, but in the evenings we enjoyed going to restaurants on the beach in Tirrenia. The first evening we ordered pasta, and were ... read more

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Europe » Italy » Sicily » Acireale August 14th 1977

renzo59

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In transit to Northern Africa

Europe » Italy November 14th 1974

Pretoria Fountain in Palermo

Nomad Old Farts

The flight from Tel Aviv reached Athens by 11.15am and I made it back to Constitution Square an hour later. I picked up mail from American Express and had a very fond reunion with Joan. We returned to the hotel for a catch up for each of us on the events of the preceding week, before a late lunch (as in 4.30pm late!) of cakes and stuff before taking a stroll around the palace area. We went back to the hotel, where after a clean-up and clothes wash, we took off for a great reunion dinner. There were plenty of demonstrations and general political fiasco at Constitution Square, but we were too tired to check out the full proceedings as we needed to get ready to be on the move again. This was another of our ... read more

Brief history of Italy

Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis...more history

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