I seem to remember quite a lot about our time in Italy 25 years ago, perhaps because the Italian culture was already pretty familiar to me - Perth has a lot of Italian immigrants, our neighbours were Italian, and everybody knows about pizza and pasta! One visit that made a particularly big …
25 years ago in Europe
25 years ago in Europe: Pisa was already leaning
My memory of some parts of our European trip 25 years ago is a little patchy. I know we went to Spain, for instance, but for some reason there aren't even any pictures of this part of the trip in my scanned collection of photos. But I do remember visiting the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It helps, no …
25 years ago in Europe: My first visit to the Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower is one of those world-recognised tourist icons, and in fact Wikipedia claims it's the "single most visited paid monument in the world"; it's almost a cliche to visit it these days, and some "real travellers" advocate skipping the tower completely. Not me. And here I am on my very …