Italy

Italy ’98

SFO -> EWR

EWR -> MXP

MXP -> VCE

VCE -> Cortina

Cortina d'Ampezzo

Hotel Royal

breakfast

stadia

around town

Carnival

Mangia!

Tavernetta

Faloria

Refugio d' Faloria

Freccia Nel Cielo

Lagazuoi

Monte Cristallo

Socrepes

Socrepes skiing

Venezia

The story of Cortina d'Ampezzo's Hotel Royal must begin at breakfast, included in the price of setting up a vacation base of operations. At left, the tiny but fresh breakfast buffet. The silver cannister you see is actually a programmed hot beverage dispenser with buttons for hot chocolate, coffee, etc. In the middle you see my newlywed bride, Rose, not yet awake. (Please forgive me, sweetheart, for this picture.) And at right you see my sister Felicia. The buffet line is in the background; nothing was more of an incentive to get to the buffet as it opened than the slow-moving line.

Nearing the end of the setting-up process, you see us at our first nibble (as opposed, I guess, to the Last Supper). From left to right are Larry and Liz Schick, Rose, Mom, Emil, Felicia, and Adam.

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