I have many hobbies, and had many jobs and a few careers before getting retired. I started blogging when I founded my private little flight simulator software publishing company back in 2005.
And now retired in Italy I continue filling this blog, hoping to get rid of Facebook some day. I prefer my own, FREE, ‘social’ media.
Come back often and enjoy our Italian life with Nina, Bruno, and me.
I have been writing here since 2005, so there is lots to read, and new things added regularly
September 1, 2016US travel Not only the Dutchy, in fact, but a whole bunch of people from the “Kachadourian Lodge” set out to visit the pass, and subsequently have lunch in Aspen on the other side! On this day, July
By Angus Findon, Mark Hillier A very special book. It shows us the life of a British fighter pilot, but not in the usual way where young men jump into the Hurricanes and Spitfires and fend off Hitler’s Luftwaffe over
Please bear with me all, I changed the theme of my WordPress website, am adding a little aircraft webshop, and integrating some material from my other websites (that I will subsequently close).So during the next few months things will be
I can’t believe it is already 30 years ago that we were watching in awe at the tracer bullets rising into the air over Baghdad, without hitting anything, while Saddam’s armed forces were annihilated from above….. At last some positive
The text in this analysis of Italy’s post-fascist (and now communist?) constitution shows that our current limitations of personal freedom and restrictions of movements are illegal, unconstitutional, and should be forcefully opposed. That Italians do not do this, is beyond
Unfortunately it looks like our region will again be dragged into the communist-state ‘Zona Arancia’ (Orange Zone) which means no freedom of movement. That’s my main beef with all this Chinese Virus crap, supported by the current communist regime in
In 2017 we moved permanently to Umbria, smack in the middle of Italy, after buying our house in 2014. We have been restructuring for 6 years now
Since I also stopped my business in 2017, I should finally have more time to enjoy the hobby myself, instead of just servicing others. Been at it for over 35 years now, and building a home cockpit
One of the reasons to move 'south' was the riding weather. Alas, ever since I bought the new BMW back in 2017 I have not been riding much. Hopefully, we still can in future
Also picked up drawing and painting again, and the scale model hobby. Some of the results are posted on the blog of course
With all the scams, hackers, spammers and other crooks around, I won’t post our private location and phone here, so please use the contact form first.