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"...called home to our friend Lynn to let her know that we were alive and over the Alps. For 33,000 lira we had perhaps and eight minute conversation..."
Another significant change over the intervening three decades.
That is precisely how I imagine quintessential Swiss countryside to look.
1 year agoBetween the clouds, snow, and wet road surface this looks like it could have been positively miserable.
1 year agoHow different things were then, nearly three decades ago. Notes of paper and ink, photo developing... quaint! And different currencies for each country.
1 year agoThanks to the optics of an actual film camera followed by a digital scanner, this could almost be a photo of a very detailed and well-executed scale model. It reminds me somehow of the model of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, over which the opening and closing titles were scrolled.
1 year agoCan you believe that? That’s the first and only time Rachael’s lost a bike to theft, so I guess she thought she’d get it behind her first thing. We were lucky they had a second one in stock!
1 year ago"... Rachael a Bianchi Volpe. It was new that summer, as was her first Bianchi Volpe that she'd replaced with this one after the first was stolen on the day she bought it."
Oh that's a CRUEL thing.
Well, I see the previous comment won’t make much sense. We went to Roussilon in 2003, in our journal ‘Lavendar Fields, Forever’. However, it looks like I lost track and never got around to finish the journal. Something to put on my todo list when I’m old and housebound some year.
6 years agoHey, that’s so great! I hadn’t noticed that this had been built in yet. Looks like it works really well. Thanks for pointing it out. Now browse on Roussilon, and feel bad that you’re not going there. It’s not too late!
6 years agoHey Scott, I was just testing the new Search feature on Cycleblaze and typed "Lourmarin" and so came to this most relevant page for us today. Yes, the BBQ chicken is the greatest - with the potatoes cooking in the drippings below!
6 years ago
Were you able to see the incredible floors of the Siena cathedral? They're kept covered for most of the year, for purposes of preservation, but are revealed for a couple weeks every so often (I think once a year).
1 year agohttp://www.travelingintuscany.com/engels/siena/sienaduomomosaicfloor.htm