Cam.card folder: D552 - Init: 2019-10-10

Sorrento to home. Day 14.

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19-10-05 - Fresh air boarding, Napoli.

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19-10-05 - Bye-bye Vesuvius.

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19-10-05 - Approaching Rome.

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19-10-05 - Altar of the Fatherland monument. Visible near the bottom right. Red marker on map.

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19-10-05 - Augustus Mausoleum and Supreme Court. See lower centre.

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19-10-05 - Post takeoff from Rome, Fiumicino.

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19-10-05 - Water channel near top is a canal leading to the Tiber River, farther to the right, east.

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19-10-05 - Alps: Matterhorn visible, near centre.

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V19-10-11 - The lake at bottom left is a reservoir. A dam is visible at the near end, and on my photograph. Zermatt, in Switzerland, is almost visible in the dark area behind the peak. I love reading maps and aerial photographs. Would have aspired to an RAF Pathfinder Reconnaisance Squadron back in the wartime years. (Had I been old enough.)

As a young buck in my forties, I used to fancy climbing the Matterhorn. It is reportedly feasible for marathon-conditioned persons with a professional guide. I WAS such a person in the early 1980s. Today I climb it only in a virtual sense, while sipping wine on an Alitalia jet.

The family library contains Whymper's classic book on climbing: Scrambles in the Alps. He reached the summit under even more distressing conditions than we have to endure today on an international flight.

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