It has been a while since I posted last and I will try and make up for that in this posting!
Though in 2015, this will be my round-up posting for the fall of 2014...
To start this post I have to travel in time back to September & October...
We were lucky enough to many fun and adventurous things...
In no particular order - here they are..
To start, It was a lovely day and I decided to wander down to Port Ouchy for a day at the Longine's Global Champions Tour (a worldwide horse jumping show). Jumpers from all over world were competing. It was something I had never seen before and it was quite exciting to attend and watch! Take a look...
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Then Tom had a business trip to Milan to shoot a video for work and I decided to tag-along for a little sight seeing and fun! This is also when I got my hair cut off - it was getting a little long (even for me)...
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| The Milan Duomo... |
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| The Sforza Castle... |
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| No...not Berlin... |
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| the Milan Brandenburg Gate! |
Moving on...Tom & I did something on a dare... Hopefully, most of you may have heard about the "Ice Bucket Challenge". Well, we did it charity - but - we did it our way! We decided to take a trip to Rome and do the challenge at the major fountains & landmarks in the city...
First, of course, a nibble & drink at the Eden Hotel...
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| Cheers & Va Bene! |
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| The Trevi was closed for renovation! |
Here is just one of the clips - We were at the Colosseo and we recruited a local Gladiator to assist! Enjoy!
We were lucky enough to take another trip back to Rome in October. My brother Mike and his wife Judy were going to be in town and we decided to join them for the weekend. It was great to see them and be back in one of our favorite places... (It was also the weekend that John Paul II was being sainted - whatta zoo).
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| An interesting shadow... |
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| ...in a local church! |
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| A trip to the Castle St. Angelo... |
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| ...with my honey! |
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| Me & Archangel Michael |
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| St. Peter's & the crowd! |
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| A trip to Campo di Fiori... |
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| ...with Mike & Judy! |
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| A sort-of Selfie... |
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| ...& a stop at the Pantheon! |
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| A stop at St. Peter's after the crowd... |
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| Mike & Judy w/ the Swiss Guard! |
At the end of September we decided to take a road trip to the North of Italy and some places we have never been before. We took a lovely weekend and traveled to Torino and the surrounding cites of Bra, Asti and Alba. It was a magical weekend of seeing new places, eating magnificent food and seeing a Ren-fest type celebration!
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| A foggy ride over the mountains... |
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| ...to the city of Torino! |
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| An industrial city, quiet except for... |
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| ...the Maserati Car show! Cool! |
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| Back to the land of the Big Spritz! Yippy! |
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| and a side trip to Alba for some local Truffles! |
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| And off to Bra (yes, Bra) for the day! |
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| Anybody for a Bra Sandwich? |
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| And to Asti for the Palio di Asti! |
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| A local horse race and medieval fest! |
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| Kings, Queens, Jesters & Clergy... |
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| Everyone & everything done to the 9s! |
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| Fun was had by all - (It was a zoo but in a great way) |
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| - well maybe not everyone! |
Just a short example of the day & the festivities!
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| And we made the rounds of all the... |
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| ...Eataly's in Torino & Asti! |
To round up this post I will move to the letter Z -
In northern Switzerland there is a town called Zug. It was just the cutest place right on the water and very Swiss!
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| Welcome to .... |
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| ...Zug! |
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| Scary Statues... |
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| ...& the laundry is fake! |
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| A lovely medieval village... |
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| ...located right on the water! |
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| With funny vehicles and... |
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| ...even funnier displays! |
Well, I have caught you all up with our fall of 2014. The next thing on our agenda is to head back home for the holidays! We are spending a little time in New York to visit friends/family then we head down to Richmond for more holiday celebrations!
As always, we wish our family and friends happiness and health!
With lots of Love -
Ron & Tom
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