Before setting off on the one I'm on (currently in Naples Italy) I'd have said my post retirement rail trip across Europe seven years ago. However this one has more meaning as an early 70th birthday present to myself. A three thousand return rail trip from my home in northeast England to Naples via London, Paris, Turin, Rome, Naples (obviously), Milan, Zurich, Berlin and Amsterdam then home. And all to see as many paintings by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio as are on public display ...
Yes, the Rijksmuseum is quite a place and the Nightwatch quite a painting. Goodness, I've just realised my first visit there was in 1972 - where did the years go? And how many visits I made since then...
Probably when we were kids - Toronto to Banff via southern US route ‘under the Great Lakes - through Michigan & Minnesota then to the Pacific Ocean at Tofino, Vancouver Island - then Seattle & back to Toronto via Thunder Bay .. & believe I was 12 - 5 kids & 3 adults - Oldsmobile Supper 88 ! We have logging & railway family that helped settle the Dakota’s & Manitoba 🦎🏴☠️🍁
Before setting off on the one I'm on (currently in Naples Italy) I'd have said my post retirement rail trip across Europe seven years ago. However this one has more meaning as an early 70th birthday present to myself. A three thousand return rail trip from my home in northeast England to Naples via London, Paris, Turin, Rome, Naples (obviously), Milan, Zurich, Berlin and Amsterdam then home. And all to see as many paintings by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio as are on public display ...
Excellent rail adventure. We enjoyed the Rembrandt Museum in Amsterdam. Night Watch shocked us! So huge.
Yes, the Rijksmuseum is quite a place and the Nightwatch quite a painting. Goodness, I've just realised my first visit there was in 1972 - where did the years go? And how many visits I made since then...
Our visit was 1972 also. We returned to EU/GB 57 times since.
Probably when we were kids - Toronto to Banff via southern US route ‘under the Great Lakes - through Michigan & Minnesota then to the Pacific Ocean at Tofino, Vancouver Island - then Seattle & back to Toronto via Thunder Bay .. & believe I was 12 - 5 kids & 3 adults - Oldsmobile Supper 88 ! We have logging & railway family that helped settle the Dakota’s & Manitoba 🦎🏴☠️🍁