FLASHBACK: Travels With Charlie (1963-1964)

With apologies to John Steinbeck.  I'll start with Italy because Charlie is included in several slides.  It's hard to believe that the Hons pulled a trailer across the Alps . . .

or that Charlie infamously took a dump in St. Mark's Square.  That probably explains his subsequent disappearance in this travelogue.

Florence barely registered after the glories of Venice.

Camping didn't agree with Mary.  After she and Ken had a fight at Lake Garda, we skipped both Pisa and Rome.

We made a couple of trips to the Netherlands.

Amsterdam is truly incredible during tulip season.

Street decorations made of tulip petals.

Madurodam, a miniature city and park near the Hague, and I are nearly the same age.  

Father/son London Fog raincoats.

I couldn't wait to get to London, mostly to see Cleopatra.  I was OBSESSED.

We visited the Saxbys who had returned to England after living across the hall from us on Holbein Ring.

Mary and Eleanor.

Tower Bridge.

Stuart and I fed the pigeons at Trafalgar Square.

The Sixties had just begun to swing.

10 Downing Street.  I doubt if tourists can get this close now.

Buckingham Palace.

The changing of the guard.  Yawn.

Le Mans racetrack.  It will look familiar if you've seen Ford v. Ferrari, one of my favorite movies of 2019.

More London:

East End (2022)
The Way of All Flesh (2022)
Crowds (2022)
Liberty (2022)
How Much Would You Pay for a Shoehorn? (2022)
Must-See Plunder (2022)
Embankment Stroll (2022)
The Ladies Who Lunch (Oblix @ the Shard) (2022)
Slow Day (2022)
"Workers Of All Lands Unite" (2022)
Hampstead Heath (2022)
Green Card (2022)
The Ladies Who Lunch (The Wolseley) (2022)
Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear (2022)
All Is Vanity (2022)
Arrival in London (2022)

Saturday Crowds (2016)

Lazarus WTF? (2016)

The Glorious Tate Modern (2016)

A Bird's Eye View of London (2016)

Travels With Charlie (1964)