HAPPY EASTER TO ALL!
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One more solo flight for me, from Atlanta to Amsterdam in May of 1988.
With an Audi rental car from my hometown, I drove to the north of Germany.
Doing my two weeks of mushroom consulting.
Husband Pieter also flew from Atlanta to Amsterdam and joined me after that.
Together we went to the Dutch Mushroom Days and next we flew via Düsseldorf, Germany to Venice in Italy...
We arrived okay but only 1 of our 3 luggage pieces got there...
So after lunch, Pieter went with our friend Tommaso back to Venice and retrieved the luggage pieces!
Later in the afternoon, we looked at property for building a house.
At the top to the left you can see Madonna di Rocca, a Sanctuary in Cornuda, Treviso - Italy.
Below is the street going to the building site...
Not the best photo but a beautiful area!
Now Madonna di Rocca is not visible to the left...
This was the corner where our house would get build.
This is it!
To the right you see some kind of guard rail, that is where the romantic Runero was running, a little creek.
A different angle and Madonna di Rocca is to the left, again not in sight here...
Stepping back from that corner you see that also behind the lots there was another hill.
A rather natural setting and peaceful.
Back to the view towards the main road (where the taller houses are).
It was a rather steep climb, if you preferred to go on foot, as we've later done several times.
Santuario della
Madonna della Rocca (Cornuda) TV, Italia just click through for viewing a short drone video.
On top of a military observation fortress stands the sanctuary of the Madonna della Rocca, a place of pilgrimage from the surrounding parishes and spiritual point for many people.
It dates back to 1245 and got damaged and destroyed several times during wars and battles.
Yes,
due to this being in an earthquake region, the Church's bell tower is always built separate from the Sanctuary...
Husband Pieter was requested to give a lecture on
June 8, 1988, at the beautiful Natural History and Archeology Museum of Montebelluna, Treviso Province in Italy.
An interesting conference is being organized for tonight.
The theme: "The advancing technology in mushroom cultivation and marketing"
Yes, Pieter was still working for Campbell International then!
But we both were preparing our move to Italy and starting to work there for the largest Italian Mushroom plant.
Sergio Venzo, chairman of the ecology and agriculture department whom we met upon arrival in April, a previous trip in 1988.
That was a trip to The Netherlands for Pieter's Mom's 93rd Birthday and we flew to Italy from Amsterdam to Venice. We talked with the deputy mayor Sergio Venzo for two hours in French! Yes, both of us did not speak nor understand Italian yet...
Sergio planned to offer something to Pieter in June, on behalf of the city of Montebelluna... so here we were.
Museo di Storia Naturale e Archologia di Montebelluna, TV Italia click through for more.
It was a great turnout of some 80 mushroom growers in attendance.
We later had dinner together with our friend Tommaso Sartor and his friend Sergio Venzo,
where Pieter also got presented a couple of his Italian books.
King Spawn was the Sartor family's own mushroom spawn plant, they'd sponsored this edition of
P.J.C. Vedder's publication in Italian.
LA MODERNA FUNGICOLTURA (Modern Mushroom Growing)
The mayor also visited us at our table in the restaurant...
The preparation for our new job and everything around that, was in the process!
On June 9, after some work at the mushroom plant, we went again to the location of the property and to see an architect. Pieter planned to use his design from our home in Georgia, adapted somewhat.
We did buy the property that day, around 18:00 and went out for dinner with Tommaso but that proved to be a disaster as our steak with green peppercorn sauce was 'green' inside!
Good grief - our only restaurant disaster ever, within Italy...
Friday, June 10, we did have a general meeting at the mushroom plant and in the afternoon we went shopping in Treviso with Rosella & Tommaso Sartor.
We found a beautiful gold-plated shaving set for Uncle Bo as a gift...
Saturday, June 11 we got up at 5:00 and Tommaso came to pick us up for the flight from Venice at 7:15 and via Milan we flew to Amsterdam and with a phone call home we left for Atlanta, USA...
We now also had our own property in Italy...
Preparing for the next chapter!
But on June 17 we both flew to Sydney, Australia with Quantas from San Francisco... My 1st trip to down under!
Hectic lifestyle!
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