St. Charles Church Pilgrimages: This is a group of photos of locations that we visited during the pilgrimage. More specific locations and narratives will follow this posting .

Father Gregory and our tour group in Florence.
The city of Florence is in the background.
Photo courtesy of Ricco and Sheilah Krohn members of our group.

On the way to Milan

View from our first hotel, Hotel Casa Tra Noi, Rome.

Vendor's dog napping

Graffiti is prevalent in all cities we visited.

Commuter scooters, Florence.

A three wheeled "sedan" found a nice parking spot.

Fuel in Italy at the date this was taken was equal to $7.00 a gallon in the US.
Needless to say SUV's were in a minority.

Wild Boar statue. Wild Boars are found in the remote areas of Italy. The nose of this Boar was very bright due to people rubbing it's nose for good luck....which you would need if one of these was chasing you!

Street performer, Florence.

Not a very friendly horse.

On the way to Milan

The Egyptian Museum of Turin (the second in the world after the Cairo Museum) was established in 1824, although the University of Turin already owned an important collection of Egyptian material. In the early 19th century, Carlo Felice, influenced by the interest in Egyptian culture which had been spreading all over Europe following Napoleon's campaigns in Egypt, acquired a substantial number of the finds collected by the Piedmontese Bernardino Drovetti, French consul general in Egypt. Between 1903 and 1920 the Italian Archaeological Mission launched a number of excavation campaigns along the Nile, thus acquiring additional material; new pieces were also added to the museum between 1930 and 1969. In 1988 the museum was entirely renovated.