Images Dated 22nd August 2012 (page 7)

Cairo - Gizeh - Egypt - Good views of the Nile valley, Cairo, the endless desert hills of yellow sand which look purple in the haze, the 2 nearby pyramids and 7 or 8 distant ones. Date: 1951

Cairo - Gizeh - Egypt - Two guides took us up the Cheops Pyramid. It was fun but tiring scrambling up the steep slabs of stone

Cairo - Gizeh - Egypt - We rode on camels down to the Sphinx, in a bowl of sand where it had been uncovered. It is smaller than I had thought (59 x160 )

Athens - Greece - Agora Date: 1951

Cairo - Egypt - We landed smoothly, on the second try. The bus took us over the desert from Farouk Airport into the City In the afternoon we walked down Kasr-el-Nile to the Giziroh Bridge

Athens - Greece

Athens - Greece - Temple of Zeus Date: 1951

Athens - Greece - Erectheum Date: 1951

Athens - Greece - with an Evzone soldier Date: 1951

Athens - Greece - Parthenon Date: 1951

Athens - Greece - Constitution Square Changing the guard with about 100 soldiers and a band in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, our fifth one so far. Date: 1951

Athens - Greece

Athens - Greece - Parthenon. Lots of pieces of ruins covering the ground the partly restored temples. Date: 1951

Athens - Greece - Parthenon Date: 1951

Athens - Greece - Hotel Grande Bretagne Date: 1951

Rome Airport - Italy - First flight for our family - TWA. Watched it land and were welcomed to go outside and photograph it

Rome - Italy - Trinita dei Monti, Hassler Hotel in the background (top floor penthouse was my grandfather Chester Beachs studio when he studied at the Academy in 1910/11). Date: 1951

Rome - Italy - Baths of Caracalla Looked very like the Kenilworth ruins. The mosaic floors are still in pretty good condition. Many families living in the ruins. Date: 1951

Rome - Italy - Forum - Casa delle Vestali - Vestal Virgins Date: 1951

Rome - Italy - Coliseum Date: 1951

Rome - Italy - St Peters. Traffic is as heavy as NYC, but less organised with few lights and many of the little green motor scooters and horse carts. The traffic moves at a very uneven rate

Siena - Italy - Palazzo Ravizza - our hotel, where Mother had stayed in the 1920s Date: 1951

Siena - Italy - Palazzo Ravizza - Doug in hotel garden. Very little water available for domestic use as water pipes still being repaired from War damage - only on for one hour each morning and night

Siena - Italy - Duomo from Palazzo Publico tower Date: 1951

Siena - Italy - Piazza del Campo from Palazzo Publico tower Date: 1951

Siena - Italy - San Mario Gate - walked through the narrow, twisty streets until we came to thes Mario Gate. Date: 1951

Siena - Italy - street scene Date: 1951

Florence - San Marco - Italy - Went up to the Church of San Marco. The serene monastery, with its beuatiful cloister garden and many cool and quiet cells with their little chapels

Florence - Ponte Vecchio - Italy - Walked over one of the four temporary bridges on the foundations of old ones that were mined by the Germans. Date: 1951

Florence - Italy - War ruins - standing bombed-out houses, which are occupied wherever possible. Date: 1951

Florence - Certosa - Italy - Arrived late afternoon to look around the monsatery and saw some of the bearded, yellow-robed monks

Carnoles - Cap Martin - France
Carnol賠 - Cap Martin - France - Took the bus towards Menton, getting off at the little village of Cap Martin. After much hunting found two double rooms in a villa which had closed for

Monte Carlo - Monaco - Jardin des plantes - There were all sorts of pin cushions and needles to stick yourselves on. There are so many palm trees, bamboo, cirtrus fruit trees and olive trees

Monte Carlo - Monaco - Stella Polaris Date: 1951

Monte Carlo - Monaco - Coming along Monaco Harbour we saw the Stella Polaris, which we later boarded. Date: 1951

Colmars - France - The arched gates had a dark enclosed parapet on top of the wall. Date: 1951

Monte Carlo - Monaco - By bus to Monte Carlo along the steep rock coast, and clear blue calm water. Date: 1951

Colmars - France - Walked the 4 miles from Allos to Colmars - a walled town with narrow twisty streets. Date: 1951

Allos - France - Cemetery Date: 1951

Allos - France - Norman portal Date: 1951

Allos - France - view from Roche Cline (2400m) towards Basse Alpes and Mediterranean. Doug & Ellen climbed a mountain cliff near a water fall which was made of loose rock and shale

Allos - France - girls washing Date: 1951

Allos - France - autumn crocuses Date: 1951

Allos - France - Seignus farmer who supplies the Hotel Pascal. (His son is serving in Korean War). Anne on ane. Date: 1951

Allos - France - Wood trolley lowering timber from the high mountains by means of horse drawn wire pulley. Date: 1951

Allos - France - Seignus, above Allos. Date: 1951

Allos - Hotel Pascal - France - The owner, Madame Leonidas, told us about the nice American radio officers who came through in the War

Allos - France - the village of Allos at 1425m Date: 1951

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