As you might notice,
the appearance of my blog has drastically improved. It was done by an expert
who offered a free consultation to re-design it as a birthday gift. Please let
me know if you see anything that could be improved.
I like to thank this
expert who happens to be my very own daughter Caroline :)
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| Honey did I have too much Vino? |
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| Leaning at the top of the leaning tower! |
While serving in the
military, Christiane and I spent a lot of time in Italy. We attended several courses at
the NATO school located at an Italian base in Latina,
which is between Rome and Naples.
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| St-Peter Square in Rome |
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| Vesuvius - Naples is between the volcano and the Mediterranean Sea |
In the spring of
1983, we had driven from Germany
to Italy
to attend one of those courses. The course was about crypto Equipment, so I
can’t tell you much about it. It was in a part of the school that was secured
and no one could go in without their valid ID card. Before starting class, a
teacher would come out and get us. We would be waiting in the hallway until the
door opened.
Those were great courses!
We couldn’t take any study material out, so we never had any homework to do!
One Friday
afternoon, we were told we would be given a test first thing Monday morning.
At the time, we were
staying in an Italian hotel downtown Latina.
I don’t remember much about the weekend but I remembered that Sunday we decided
to go and have supper at the restaurant in the hotel. When we walked in the
restaurant, the place was unusually empty. Our Italian language skill was
pretty much limited to shopping and ordering food. So we ate and went back to
our room.
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| View from our hotel room in Latina |
Monday morning, we
drove to school, when we got to the waiting area in the hallway; we were the
ONLY ones there. We were confused as we
usually were the first ones there. “Where is everyone?” we were asking ourselves.
We rang the bell to gain access to the secured classrooms and found out that this
particular weekend happened to be the spring time change… the time had moved
ahead by one hour! grrrrr
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| Small Italian fishing village between Latina and Naples |
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| Inside the coliseum in Rome, lucky for us... No lion! |
