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Re: 2 8299 CD-ROM's Available!
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Thu, 11 Feb 1999 05:45:54 GMT
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It was a semester abroad in college back in '81. Studied in Israel, Greece, and Italy.
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> So.. who do you know at teh Vatican that got you there?
Our group was granted a "private" audience (3000 nun & us), prolly the same thing Jesse did.
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> You must've been doing a nice "grande tour", 18th-century style, to
> get all those interesting things - Did you see the
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> [ ] - Tower of London
> [ ] - Tower Bridge
> [ ] - Big Ben
> [x ] - Leaning tower of Pisa
> [ ] - Tour Eiffel
> [ x] - Colosseum
> [ ] - Taj Mahal
> [ ] - Kilimanjaro
> [ ] - Macchu Picchu
> [ ] - Legoland Billund (I wish:)
> [ x] - Hadrian's wall
> [ ] - Berlin wall
> [ ] - Reichstag
> [ ] - Bridge of sighs
> [ ] - San Marco cathedral
> [ ] - Great wall of China
> [ ] - Forbidden City
> [ ] - Gum
> [ x] - Statue of Liberty different trip
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> [ ] - Other, namely.......................
ALL of Israel
Athens (Acropolis)
Delphi
Corinth
Venice
Florence
Rome
Pompeii
It was a great time. Went back with my newlywed bride for a 3 month honeymoon 3 years
later:)
Lived in Stuttgart as a kid, learned to ski in Austria, wife's relatives are in Norway, have
visited Spain and France; never been to England. Not bad for an "inbred" mid-westerner,
IMIO
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| (...) Sounds nice. Especially for a non-European :) (...) The man must be _so_ busy shaking hands, it's a wonder he has time to forbid birth-control. (...) Ah, I'll have to add the wonders of greece to my list, not to mention Pompeii. (...) Well, (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Yeah, I wondered about that too - I thought maybe you were, like, old and climbed it when it was still legal - 70's or so I believe. (...) So.. who do you know at teh Vatican that got you there? You must've been doing a nice "grande tour", (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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