Barry

On from Newcastle

The plan was to meet Robyn  at Cobar – the plan worked and no-one was more surprised than me. We actually met up within a

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Happy Birthday Daughter

Next stop Carey Bay (Oh! alright, Newcastle) to bring best birthday greetings to our youngest, Calinda. Happy Birthday Kiddo ( I won’t embarass you here)

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One Small Step…..

Four days commemorating what is probably one of the biggest achievements in human history – man’s walk on the Moon. In Canberra, guests of Robert

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Romin’ about stilll

Monday. Coloseum tour day. Met Valentino our tour guide after a bit of confusion and spent the next 2 1/2 hours or so romin in

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Roma (cont.)

Or maybe just starting. By the time we dropped the car at the airport, worked out the trains and got back to the hotel, Saturday,

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Roma

The trip back up to Roma was pretty uneventful. I missed the first turn Narelle directed me to and by default she found a better

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Amalfi

About a thousand years ago Kelvin Whitford said to me “Europe is much better than Asia” I think mainly cos I’d spent more time in

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Pompeii

We moved on from Napoli, just a few k down the road to Ercolano and this trip was perhaps the most challenging so far. Not

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Napoli

Naples to us foreigners. But the journey doesn’t start here. From Civitavecchia we drove only 60 or 70 k to Latina. This was just a

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Civitavecchia

and there it was – my dream car – an all electric, remote controlled Maserati. And we had to come to Civitavecchia to find it.

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