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Correspondence
Winthrop residents vacationing in Europe
plained about it.
Well, July is over and no really warm
weather in Winthrop. The weather-
men (women) talk about similar Ju-
lys how soon we forget.
Services at Cavan United Church
resume on August 9 with Bruce Whit-
more as the speaker.
Brian 'and Carol Ann Camp-
bell have returned from a wonderful
trip through Europe. They left To-
ronto airport flying into Heathrow in
London, England. Friday, Saturday
they toured the highlights in Lon-
don.
On Sunday they travelled by bus
to Dover and crossed on the ferry to
Calais, Franca, through Belgium to
Amsterdam in ' Holland where they
stopped at a Diamond polishing fac-
tory, as well as a cheese factory and a
factory that makes wooden shoes.
It was then onto Vollindam, a fishing
village and then to Germany and a
cruise on the Rhine River. They then
travelled through Munich to Inns-
bruck, Austria and Salzburg where
they toured a crystal and diamond
factory.
From here it was on to Vienna which
has lots of opera houses. They report
the countryside is beautiful with hills
and mountains and small farms.
It was on to Venice via the Carinthi-
an Lake district. Venice is on the Gulf
of Venice, the northern part of the
St. Columban group
plans trip to
Canada's
Wonderland
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Adriatie Sea. They stayed at Lido (an
island) whici is similar to our Grand
Bend beams,
At Venice they watched the Venetian
glass blowing process, went on gon-
dola rides, toured the Basilica, Dodg-
es Palace and Island Burano, famous
for its lace where they watched them
do this craft.
Next, it was through the Tuscan
Hills following the Tiher to Rome
where they stopped at the Vatican,
Sistine Chapel, tombs of ancient
Christians, the Coliseum, the Ro-
man Forum part of which has been
destroyed by earthquakes, and the
Trevi Fountain. Although they didn't
see her, while they were in Rome, Mi-
chelle Obama was also there.
From here it was on to Florence
where they saw the statue of David
and watched a leatherwork demon-
stration. Then on to Nice and the
Leaning Zbwer of Pisa.
. It was next on to Lucerne, Switzer-
land for a day, where they saw the
Alps and went .up Mt. Pilatus by a
cog -wheel railway.
After passing other points of inter-
est they returned to Monte Carlo in
France where they saw the casinos
and stayed at a hotel on the French
Riviera. It was next on to Paris where
they saw the place where Lady Diana
was killed, the Notre Dame Cathe-
dral, *the Arc de Tiomph and watched
them light up the Eiffel lower at 10
p.m.
The Tomb of the Unknown is sur-
rounded by a roundabout which
was a scary ride as the five lanes
Sympathy to the relatives and
family of Mrs. Velma Patterson,
who passed away peacefully at Ritz
Lutheran Villa, Mitchell on Friday,
July 24.
An annual( St. Columban trip to
Canada's Wonderland will be held -
on Monday, Aug. 24.
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aren't marked. They travelled on the
From the de. Gaulle
Champs Elysees.
airport they
flew to Heath-
row and then
to Thronto.
They report
it was a truly
enjoyable tour
with about
25 people in-
volved; People
on the tour
were from
South Africa,
Australia, and
New Zealand
and of course,
Canada.
FOOD FOR
THOUGHT
Summer is the
time of year
when you try to
keep the house
. as cold as it was
in the winter,
when you com-
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