A Tour of Northern Italy
Tuesday, October 15, 1991
We grabbed a couple of croissants and departed at 7am for Northern Italy - a detour on our drive home. The drive from Lausanne thru Southern Switzerland took us around Lake Geneva and into the beautiful snow covered Swiss Alps.
We crossed into Italy via the St. Bernard tunnel, 4 kilometers long, politely being waved thru customs, not even checking our passports. Now we are really into some gorgeous country - Northern Italy and the Italian Alps. The road is small and curvy and the towns are old and quaint, houses with rock roofs, chateaus (castles) every way you turn your head, old churches with murals painted on the front walls.
Oh, so many pictures we’re taking. The trees are beginning to turn as Fall is approaching. We leave Italy and back into France via Mont Blanc tunnel - 11 kilometers long (about 6 1/2 miles).
Again, we’re waived thru customs and my plants are on their way home! The mountains are so awesome. Mt. Blanc is 16,000+ ft. tall, snow covering a large part of it, and a glacier on the French side. We had to stop just to admire the beauty and, of course, more pictures. We continue our drive toward Paris, arriving home about 6:30pm. A stop at the office for, oh so much mail - just like Christmas again!
Editor’s Note:
Sorry I have been shy on the photos lately, I actually just forgot until I read her post saying how many photos she had taken, and yes, she took a lot of pictures of their drive home. Here are a few starting with David in the booth.
I will try to remember to include more photos in the upcoming posts and I might go back to some of the previous days posts when they were at the show and update the photos there too.