Jun 2007

Well folks, 3days to go, I'm packed, ready and twiddling thumbs. Car's been serviced, new brakes, new tyres (I'm looking forward to the Autobarn lol) and everything is booked. I just want to go now !

Leaving around 2:30 am Sun 1st july, ferry departs 9am. Should be drunk by 9pm and in a cafe for a ciggy (cough cough). Damn smokers lol, ooops, you can't smoke in the uk, then neither can I on return - bugger

Ok, well with 3 days to go I thought I would add the Villa bit, which is one of the main points of our trip.
Cutting a long story short, my grandfather (Hertz), died and my grandmother re-married to a Valentine. He had a brother, Fritz, who was married to Tilly. All, including my parents are deceased. Fritz and Tilly used to live in Varese.

Fritz and Tilly had no children, therefore, my brother and I are the closest living relatives. The questions now include: Is the Villa there still? who is living in it? what happened to the rest of the estate? etc. etc. The first step therefore is to knock on the door and say Hi.

I will keep you posted on this. BTW, if you happen to be a lawyer or have knowledge of italian customs etc. regarding wills, estate and property, say hi as I think we will need help on this one

My Kids

Me

My Car 1

My Car 2

My Car 3

This is the beggining (it has to be as we havn't done it yet) of a 4 week roadtrip with my son Niel. He's 23 I'm 49 (trying to be 30). Its his 1st trip to Europe and so will introduce him to new cultures, for me the chance to see and wonder at some beautiful sights and maybe visit a couple of old haunts.
As we are away my daughter, Mellissa is also traveling around Europe, backpacking for 3 months. Alas we wont meet up, but hey, Hi Mel (http://mellissahurst.travellerspoint.com).
We head, after leaving on the 30th of June, for Amsterdamn for a couple of nights (father and son time) followed by 3 days total chill in Luxembourg. After that we travel to France for a week and then on to Italy where we search for (hopefully) our villa. (I will explain this later). A week later we head for Germany and the Grand Prix followed by 10 days of Germany, drinking, sight seeing, drinking and visiting old haunts of mine (I used to live in Germany).
Well thats the outline. I was going to add pics at this point, but, they are on my laptop and I'm not, lol. So will add them later.