Picking up a buddy at the Milan Malpensa airport afforded us the opportunity to visit a little known museum for all things flight. The Parco e Museo del Volo Volandia covers flight wether it be the earliest flights in gliders or space …
Padua Trip – Day Six; Arrivo!
As the Auto D’Epoca starts tomorrow (Thursday) and the trip from Como to Padua is only 3 hours via the Autostrada and we have the day to transverse the distance – we’ve planned a slow route.
Padua Trip: Day Seven – Show time!
A thursday pre-show day was added a couple of years ago to the show due to the massive throng of people vying for space in the rare parts section. So, Dinky ordered pre-show tickets.
Padua Trip: Day Eight – en masse
Friday the Auto e Moto d’Epoca opened to the general public with standard priced tickets so the crowds were many. Photographing the special cars without someone standing in the way was much more difficult
Padua Trip: Day Nine – Turistico
With no desire to venture to the show again today and fight through the crowds we decided today would be a good day to explore what the city has to offer.
Padua Trip: Day Ten – to and fro
Well I mapped out a scenic drive like the many I’ve done in the past. I’ve mapped out drives as far as across the USA so a simple trip from Padua to Amsterdam is a “walk in the park”. Well, …
Padua Trip: Day Eleven – Italy to Netherlands in a day
Since the previous days many miles of twisting roads accumulated in very little distance actually traveled toward our goal of Holland – we decided we should set our navigation via Germany’s high speed autobahn
Europe 2011 – Garlenda, Italy for Fiat 500 Club Italy
July 1 – 3, 2011 Each year the Fiat 500 Club Italy holds a multi day meeting in Garlenda Italy. Its one of the larges meetings of original Fiat 500s in the world. This was our second time attending the …
Europe 2011 – Centro Storico Fiat – Torino
July 4th, 2011 – Torino Italy The Fiat Historical Center is a museum and company archive based in Turin. It displays cars, airplanes, trains, tractors, trucks, bicycles, washing machines, refrigerators with the Fiat brand . Scale models, reconstructions of parts of the production process, posters and …
Europe 2011 – Fiat Lingotto Factory
July 4th, 2011 Lingotto was built in the 1920s. When Senator Giovanni Agnelli (CEO and majority shareholder) had visited the Ford factory in Detroit, he then decided to expand production by adopting new and evolved production technologies in a state …
Europe 2011 – Museo Nazionale Dell’Automobile
July 5th 2011 The Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile (The National Automobile Museum), founded by Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia, is an automobile museum in Turin, northern Italy. The museum has a collection of almost 200 cars[2] among eighty automobile brands representing eight countries (Italy, France, Great …
Alfa Centennial – Holland to Milano – Day One
The day started in Kerkrade at a former Abbey – Rolduc Convention center/Hotel. A huge facility that included a church complete with a spooky crypt in it’s lower level and an in-house brewed abby ale that was quite fantastic. A …