Again, I thank you for the great descriptions and pics! Enjoy and your wife is right, as usual!! JIM
Write Up Tuscany, Italy september 2014
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Steady on Jim, if Shirl sees that I'm sunk.
T- she doesn't have to see that she already knows she's right and you're wrong!! 42 years and counting on the one time I get something, anything right. Told her I had to have been right at least once, I married her didn't I !! And then the fight started!! JIMSteady on Jim, if Shirl sees that I'm sunk.
Cheers for that Jim, I got to bed with a smile tonight. You're a star.
Probably just gas from the jet lag!! JIMCheers for that Jim, I got to bed with a smile tonight. You're a star.
Hi guys, not having a good connection, but the 3mendous meeting has reach it's end......and I'll post more when we will be home , in a couple of days!
Well we are home again, arrived yesterday evening.
Friday, Sep 26th we moved few miles to the south, in Lido di Camaiore, where the 25th Raduno Nazionale was held. Due to the big number of participants , two hotels were booked. We stayed at the Grand Hotel& Riviera, a nice hotel with an underground parking. The landscape improved dramatically but I and my wife were still nostalgic about the previous location in Versilia.....
Next day, Saturday Sep 27th, we regrouped and drive to the famous Carrara white marble quarries.
On the road we stopped at Hospedale Pedriatico, where the club made a donnation in medical equipment, for the blood testing for children.
A Zed guardian.......
I've chosen to visit the underground extraction and some others to visit the outdoor extraction.
Cars were parked half in the parking down the road and half in the small piazza of the village Colonnata, where we had a snack with the famous lardo di Colonnata, a porc ham (98% grease) prepaired in a process of 4 months in marble cases. Very tasty but I can’t say anything about the cholesterol level.......
A Madonna natural marble found during the cuttings...
Friday, Sep 26th we moved few miles to the south, in Lido di Camaiore, where the 25th Raduno Nazionale was held. Due to the big number of participants , two hotels were booked. We stayed at the Grand Hotel& Riviera, a nice hotel with an underground parking. The landscape improved dramatically but I and my wife were still nostalgic about the previous location in Versilia.....
Next day, Saturday Sep 27th, we regrouped and drive to the famous Carrara white marble quarries.
On the road we stopped at Hospedale Pedriatico, where the club made a donnation in medical equipment, for the blood testing for children.
A Zed guardian.......
I've chosen to visit the underground extraction and some others to visit the outdoor extraction.
Cars were parked half in the parking down the road and half in the small piazza of the village Colonnata, where we had a snack with the famous lardo di Colonnata, a porc ham (98% grease) prepaired in a process of 4 months in marble cases. Very tasty but I can’t say anything about the cholesterol level.......
A Madonna natural marble found during the cuttings...
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Thank you for some wonderful pictures Zeti. Was it as cool underground as the pictures would have your mind believe?
Tony.
Tony.
Thanks for sharing your holiday zeti i feel like i'v been away now.
A lot of funny things could be seen from the balcony of the hotel....
that my wife was not taking it seriously...
that my wife was not taking it seriously...
Sunday, Sep 28th, we visited Antro dela Corchia, a very interesting cave where you need some physical condition as there are 1000 stair steps to walk in a level difference of 70 meters. The holes (cavities) are deep and scary and the walls, sometimes, very close to the steps. Often you expect an Orque to apear after the next corner, or a Smeagol running after the his ”precious”... Very dramatic deeps and ceilings at a temp of 7.5 degrees C.
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The farewell lunch at a nearby restaurant who hardly could take the 200 persons. Sunday was the peak of the participation: about 96 vehicles plus some cars for the escort of the group.
In both days the roads taking us to the caves where very nice through the heart of the mountains.
You can imagine the feeling of a 96 Z3 snaking on the road and cities.....
Weather was great, have no words.....like in August!
Tomorrow I will bring some pics of the road back home.
In both days the roads taking us to the caves where very nice through the heart of the mountains.
You can imagine the feeling of a 96 Z3 snaking on the road and cities.....
Weather was great, have no words.....like in August!
Tomorrow I will bring some pics of the road back home.
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Some really SUPER pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You had one or two pics that should be submitted for 'picture of the Month'. Frankie
WOW!!!!!!!!!! So many Zs. What a convoy. And the dinner table reminds me of the dinners I had in Italy with all my Italian relatives. Frankie with envy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And seems she made a good choice!
I will keep you informed for the 2015 meeting. Seems it will be still on the western sea shore, on the Italian riviera, Liguria.....
Thanks for the invitation! I would like to, despite the left hand drive, but Frankie gave me hopes! I have only to convince my wife who says that UK is for airplane trip. In 2010 we stayed in London for 10 days and visiting surroundings by train (Cambridge, Hampton Court, Windsor). If you remember it was the summer when the lawn of the Buckingham Palace dried......We had ten days in UK and not a drop of rain, during daytime, just few insignificant drops in the night! So, in our memory UK is a sunny place on earth!
Regarding Trieste, I got these days a memory I will not soon forget! I will tell you the story tonight.