Some of the links are broken, so here's some more photos, including the neighbourhood that we lived in. Most of these are from 2003, but the airplane photo is from the Emirates flight from Dubai to Milan.
The park beside our apartment. Some of the other complexes on Via Carozzi had communal parks built into the apartment grounds, but this was a public park.
The entrance to our apartment. I always felt that it was a very classy apartment. Oddly enough, it reminds me slightly of Manny's place in Eastbourne.
My guitar ... not much has changed.
In Italy, it was considered cheating to spin the foosball players, so there was a lot more skill involved than there is in NZ. I'm no good at pool, but I'm epically good at foosball!
2003 trip to Cologne. Pretty sure that the campervan in the photo is our one.
ACP Gobetti was our soccer club. Btw in Italy, it's calcio, not futbol or football. They call it the beautiful game. That's the Italian obsession with beauty!
Mum got these really bold, loud curtains. Doesn't seem to be a photo of them.
Phillip arrives. December 2003. We went to Cervinia for Christmas.
The chair lift photo was the background image on my Dad's laptop for ages. Windows XP came out while we were in Italy, and Dad thought it was fantastic.
This is the infamous Monopoly match...
School fun run, 2003.
Those were the school grounds. It was so ridiculous to sit looking out the window at that beautifully maintained park across the road, while all our hour and a half lunch breaks were spent attempting to have fun on that piece of shit! School went 8:30am-4:30pm. HUGE disappointment: when we were preparing for the trip, we'd read that Italian schools ran six days a week, but only in the mornings. Dunno if that was true in other parts of the paese, but this was a working class neighbourhood, and the school was essentially a babysitting service as well.
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