tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372918745568160739.post4753355307545694269..comments2023-07-24T09:40:45.472+02:00Comments on The Espresso Break: Ten Overlooked Sights In ItalyBarbarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023751664082363749noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372918745568160739.post-41720099784460279542011-07-28T12:24:06.434+02:002011-07-28T12:24:06.434+02:00Hi
You are nominated for 7-links. See our last pos...Hi<br />You are nominated for 7-links. See our last post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372918745568160739.post-87913637961843627432010-12-16T21:26:40.105+01:002010-12-16T21:26:40.105+01:00Interestin list. Before the earthquake, I would ha...Interestin list. Before the earthquake, I would have added L'Aquila, probably the largest historical city most people miss. <br />Well, even after the quake. It needs the support that only outsiders can bring, and it is still beautiful, even cracked.Joshuahttp://carbonara.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372918745568160739.post-14174816227482238462010-12-13T14:41:37.067+01:002010-12-13T14:41:37.067+01:00What a charming story, Gil! Thanks for sharing it...What a charming story, Gil! Thanks for sharing it.Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023751664082363749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372918745568160739.post-39582773618313377672010-12-13T08:16:20.341+01:002010-12-13T08:16:20.341+01:00Monte Cassino - My father had a younger cousin tha...Monte Cassino - My father had a younger cousin that left Naples to live at his beach place in Scauri. Most of our family knew him and his deceased wife as they had made a trip or two to the States. When my daughter studied and lived in Florence she looked up relatives in Naples including Zio Nino. When we visited our daughter in Florence we went to Scauri and visited Zio Nino. When we left he insisted we return and visit him. A year or so later my wife and I went back to Italy and picked up some junk our daughter had stored with friends in Florence and then we headed to see Zio Nino. While visiting him we took a lot of little trips including Monte Cassino that he claimed he took my parents to five times during the two or three months that they spent with him many years before. Long story short the guard at Monte Cassino would not let Zio in as his shorts were too short and his knees were exposed. When we got back to the car my wife looked in the box of our daughter's stuff and dragged out some drapes. She wrapped them around Zio and the now Zia Nino took us on the grand tour of Monte Cassino.<br /><br />When I got back to work one of the young kids asked me about our trip and when I mentioned Monte Cassino he knew everything about it. Why! He said every Polish kid growing up in New Britain, CT when he did had fathers and uncles that served in WWII and they, the kids, heard the story of Monte Cassino on every holiday.Gilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224104422332322541noreply@blogger.com