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I enjoy both, but a big snowfall such as this one in Italy back in 1969 was great fun.  We slept the night here in the back of our London Taxi and couldn't get out in the morning because the snow on the running boards was so thick we needed both of us pushing with our feet.  Doing a morning pee... well that's another story 😉

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 Pretty Cool eh!!   My style visiting the Vatican back in 1969.

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That's Pope Paul up in that top window in the Vatican City back in 1969, giving his words of wisdom, not that we understood.  The Square was packed with true believers, amazing it was and how lucky were we to just wander in at this moment.

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David enjoying a shave in a cold river somewhere in Wales back in 1968, that razor had to be sharp to be successful in that cold eh!

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These wonderful shops, this one is in Switzerland, had the most inviting aroma, all the goodies were so delicately made and so costly we could rarely afford to buy anything.   Love the name of the owner  :-)

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Half of David, wearing another jumper I knitted for him well before we married.   David is standing on the Ramparts at Angouleme in France 1969.

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I bought this striped toweling dress in Marks and Sparks before we left England but wasn't happy with the way the stripes met down the sides so undid it while we were on the Trans Siberian Railway and matched them  :-)   It is one long trip and I needed something to do with my hands.

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 Couldn't find a good button photo.. but these bullet holes in this building in Budapest are the size of buttons??  Well some of them are anyway.

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This is some wall to beat all walls eh!  Leonardo De Vinci's Last Supper in Milan... those were the days when one could just wander in off the street, that's me enjoying a close up.  

Now if you want to see the Last Supper you have to book before leave your country and it costs money... $US 71.16...  we just walked in for free back in 1969.

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All these trees in this courtyard in Seville, Spain are Orange trees.

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Radio 702 were talking about 'Welcome Wagons' yesterday and lots of people were ringing in telling stories of being welcomed into their Suburb and so on... when I remembered way back... in late 1970!

We were in California on the last leg of our 3 years of traveling around the world when we called into San Jose to catch up with Louis, Sheila and Eugene Daugherty, we'd met them in Europe somewhere while on our travels and as we were going to be in the US after they got home we exchanged addresses.

Louis and Sheila had just moved into San Jose and the 'Welcome Wagon' had been with lots of wonderful goodies, information and discount or free vouchers.   I needed a haircut and as Sheila had a 'Free Haircut' voucher and was never going to use it she gave it to me.

So along I went to this hairdresser, who never said a word, never asked me where I came from or where I'd moved into or any of the questions I thought I may have been asked, I guessed my accent gave me away to some extent although in that time not many Americans had ever heard of Australia, thinking we meant Austria!

The only thing this Hairdresser said to me was... 'Do you want BANGS?'    I was horrified, what the hell was she saying, what were bangs!  I was so shocked I can't remember what I said, probably just said... 'okay'...  very meekly.  Boy I was glad to get out of there!  I didn't want to be arrested for cheating the Welcome Wagon!

 That's our London Taxi on the right with Sheila in the camper van beside us, we are amused at the garb this man is wearing to go to the showers.

 Then we bumped into Louis, Sheila and baby Eugene in a park while having a lunch break somewhere in Austria.

 Me in California with my 'San Jose Bangs!'    (I just noticed I am rolling wool, I was taught to knit by my Great Aunt Carol when I was 5 years old and I've never stopped, no matter where I am, I've always got some knitting underway. )

The Daugherty's were Louis parents who lived in Phoenix, Arizona and were so very generous and hospitable to us when we called in on our travels around the USA.

Why?  Why?  Why????   please tell me WHY?  Americans call a simple fringe a 'Bang'.

Here's what Wiki says...

1. 1.

   a sudden loud, sharp noise.

   
   

   "the door slammed with a bang"

   
   

   synonyms:

   sharp noise, crack, boom, clang, peal, clap, pop, snap, knock, tap, slam, bump, thud, thump, clunk, clonk, clash, crash, smash, smack; More stamp, stomp, clump, clomp; report, explosion, detonation, shot; informalwham, whump "the door slammed with a bang"

   • a sharp blow causing a sudden, loud noise.

     
     

     "I went to answer a bang on the front door"
   • a sudden painful blow.

     
     

     "a nasty bang on the head"

     
     

     synonyms:

     blow, hit, punch, knock, thump, rap, bump, thwack, smack, crack, slap, welt, cuff, box; More informalbash, whack, clobber, clout, clip, wallop, belt, tan, biff, bop, sock, lam, whomp; informalslosh; informalboff, bust, slug, whale; informaldong; datedbuffet "a nasty bang on the head"

2. 2.

   North American

   a fringe of hair cut straight across the forehead.

   
   

   "she brushed back her wispy bangs"
   
   I asked Wiki the question... 'Why do Americans call a fringe a Bang?'   here's the reply...
   
   The term bangs originally referred to a hair cut bang-off (straight across at the front), although the term is now applied to diverse forms of hair stylings. It is probably related to bang-tail, a term still used for the practice of cutting horses' tails straight across.

Labels: Europe by London Taxi, Friends, Pennie

That's me again, in Dover beside our London Taxi waiting to drive it on board that Hoovercraft to Boulogne in 1970.

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