On Friday June 10th I joined with the Dutch Alfa Club again this year for another of their trips abroad. This year, being the 25th anniversary of their first trip to Belgium, they once again traveled to Spa. An amazing …
Europe 2011 – Amsterdam to Milano then Lucca
June 25 – July 1, 2011 After spending a week in the Netherlands we flew to Milano for the Italian part of this trip. We rented a new FIAT 500 for the trip as it would come in handy for …
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 …
Scheveningen and Noordwijk aan Zee – Dutch towns on the North Sea
Two seaside beach towns on the coast of the North Sea. Scheveningen is a very built up and busy town and that is to be expected with Den Hague so close by. Full of casinos, shops and a huge modern …
Zagato shopping in Holland
With my arrival in Holland two weeks early for the Alfa club drive to Milan, I thought it would be fun to do some car shopping. This year with the Euro falling I thought it may be the right time …
Holland – Groningen: Pancakes and windmills
The occasional day of sunshine followed unavoidably by rain.Three actual functioning windmills form a “windmill museum”. These three windmills were used as water pumping stations to drain the land of water. No longer used in that capacity they are now …
Holland – Friesland
Some beautiful cities along the Waddenzee in an area of North Holland called Friesland. The cities I visited are; Makkum (famous for its traditional –and ugly- pottery), Workum including the Jopie Huisman museum, Hindeloopen, Stavoren and it’s old harbor and Sloten with it’s nice windmill. The …
Holland – Enkhuizen and more…
The city of Enkhuizen contains a reenactment village of homes and shops collected from around the Netherlands and arranged to look like a village from the past. It is very well presented and is worth a visit if you care …
Rusty Dutch Alfas
People say the AlfaSud is a magnet for rust… this Gulia and Bertone demonstrate that the little sud was not the only one.