I really am a big fan of French Impressionism, and would love to see those images of Monet's house. Have a good trip!
YVS
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I've been to Monet's house in Paris. His letters to his patrons are really moving. The art is beautiful. Have a great trip, and stay in Paris as long as you can, it's a great city.
jaydub: I was in hungary , last year, to meet my wife maria varga. Hungary was different from where i live in many ways. The houses are organic, the streets are very skinny, and NO fast food dumps, as a result people there are not overweight like here in U.S. Buda/Pest was amazing, such history! Thousands of years of human endeavor set aside in the Buda area,running abrupt against post-modern busy body manufacturings of human living/working spaces of Pest. To sit in a side walk cafe eating in Budapest was something i thought would never happen. However, Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport in Fiumicino, a seaside town near Italy's capital, Sucks big time! Example.. ROME - It's an enduring problem in the eternal city-seemingly endless baggage delays at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport? Now, Rome's mayor says he is determined to resolve the issue after he joined the legions of Rome-bound travelers left waiting for their bags at the airport in Fiumicino, a seaside town near Italy's capital. "I, too, have become a victim of an incredible inconvenience that continues to repeat itself at Fiumicino airport-the long wait for baggage," Mayor Gianni Alemanno said. He summoned baggage handling companies, airport management and civil aviation authorities to City Hall for a meeting early next month "so that this shame can end as soon as possible." After a flight Monday night from Venice of scarcely an hour, "I waited for more than an hour, in a crowded room and with air conditioning which barely worked," Alemanno said in a statement. His jacket draped over a baggage cart, Alemanno leaned up against a pillar and waited in his shirt sleeves along with wife for his bags to arrive, according to photos published Wednesday on the front page of national daily Corriere della Sera, which said it obtained the pictures from a passenger who took them on a cell phone. "It's an unacceptable situation for an airport that should be of international caliber," the mayor said in one of three statements his office issued Tuesday night about the problem. Alemanno's wait was hardly unique or particularly lengthy: Frequent travelers to Rome say it's not uncommon to wait up to two hours for bags to materialize, if they arrive at all. Italy's national civil aviation authority ENAC on Wednesday announced its own summit on the problem. ENAC said on Tuesday alone, about 20 fines were levied, amounting to a total of around ?40,000 ($57,000), against Alitalia and ground services companies including baggage handlers, because of delayed or lost bags. Fines can be levied if the wait for bags to be put on the carousel takes longer than 30 minutes for domestic flights, with a little more leeway for international flights. But there's a loophole: Just putting a few of the flight's bags on the conveyer belts within the time limit is enough to avoid a fine. That might help explain why a couple of bags always seem to materialize quickly, raising what turn out to be foolish hopes when the rest of the bags tumble out much later. On Tuesday, two Alitalia flights for Milan's Linate airport took off without loading any luggage at all, leaving the passengers to wait hours for other flights from Rome to arrive with their bags, Italian news reports said. Fiumicino's baggage problem has defied earlier efforts to solve it. Two years ago, in the middle of the peak summer travel season, Italy's then-transport minister promised measures to improve the chaotic baggage-handling system after thousands of outbound bags were left unloaded. Some Alitalia unions have blamed the problems on labor cuts after the national carrier was privatized last year. One union for Alitalia on Wednesday called a one-day strike for Sept. 18 in protest. Not only baggage but getting boarding passes is unreal..one of the passengers after waiting 40 minutes or so went behind the counter, and went in to the small cubby hole where an alitalia employee was doing something on a puter and grabbed him by the collar and yanked him up out of his seat. After about 5 minutes of yelling the roma police came and finally found a beautiful board pass agent, who acted like she was walking down the runway modeling alitalia work wear. The custom process was done barely by young kids, for whom were so lackadaisical , the passengers were doing the jobs for them. Oh last but not least .. the buses taking us from the planes to the terminal, if you did not see the others bracing themselves..in time you and your luggage will be spawling all over the bus.
I was in hungary , last year, to meet my wife maria varga. Hungary was different from where i live in many ways. The houses are organic, the streets are very skinny, and NO fast food dumps, as a result people there are not overweight like here in U.S. Buda/Pest was amazing, such history! Thousands of years of human endeavor set aside in the Buda area,running abrupt against post-modern busy body manufacturings of human living/working spaces of Pest. To sit in a side walk cafe eating in Budapest was something i thought would never happen.
However, Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport in Fiumicino, a seaside town near Italy's capital, Sucks big time! Example..
ROME - It's an enduring problem in the eternal city-seemingly endless baggage delays at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport?
Now, Rome's mayor says he is determined to resolve the issue after he joined the legions of Rome-bound travelers left waiting for their bags at the airport in Fiumicino, a seaside town near Italy's capital.
"I, too, have become a victim of an incredible inconvenience that continues to repeat itself at Fiumicino airport-the long wait for baggage," Mayor Gianni Alemanno said.
He summoned baggage handling companies, airport management and civil aviation authorities to City Hall for a meeting early next month "so that this shame can end as soon as possible."
After a flight Monday night from Venice of scarcely an hour, "I waited for more than an hour, in a crowded room and with air conditioning which barely worked," Alemanno said in a statement.
His jacket draped over a baggage cart, Alemanno leaned up against a pillar and waited in his shirt sleeves along with wife for his bags to arrive, according to photos published Wednesday on the front page of national daily Corriere della Sera, which said it obtained the pictures from a passenger who took them on a cell phone.
"It's an unacceptable situation for an airport that should be of international caliber," the mayor said in one of three statements his office issued Tuesday night about the problem.
Alemanno's wait was hardly unique or particularly lengthy: Frequent travelers to Rome say it's not uncommon to wait up to two hours for bags to materialize, if they arrive at all.
Italy's national civil aviation authority ENAC on Wednesday announced its own summit on the problem.
ENAC said on Tuesday alone, about 20 fines were levied, amounting to a total of around ?40,000 ($57,000), against Alitalia and ground services companies including baggage handlers, because of delayed or lost bags.
Fines can be levied if the wait for bags to be put on the carousel takes longer than 30 minutes for domestic flights, with a little more leeway for international flights. But there's a loophole: Just putting a few of the flight's bags on the conveyer belts within the time limit is enough to avoid a fine.
That might help explain why a couple of bags always seem to materialize quickly, raising what turn out to be foolish hopes when the rest of the bags tumble out much later.
On Tuesday, two Alitalia flights for Milan's Linate airport took off without loading any luggage at all, leaving the passengers to wait hours for other flights from Rome to arrive with their bags, Italian news reports said.
Fiumicino's baggage problem has defied earlier efforts to solve it. Two years ago, in the middle of the peak summer travel season, Italy's then-transport minister promised measures to improve the chaotic baggage-handling system after thousands of outbound bags were left unloaded.
Some Alitalia unions have blamed the problems on labor cuts after the national carrier was privatized last year. One union for Alitalia on Wednesday called a one-day strike for Sept. 18 in protest.
Not only baggage but getting boarding passes is unreal..one of the passengers after waiting 40 minutes or so went behind the counter, and went in to the small cubby hole where an alitalia employee was doing something on a puter and grabbed him by the collar and yanked him up out of his seat. After about 5 minutes of yelling the roma police came and finally found a beautiful board pass agent, who acted like she was walking down the runway modeling alitalia work wear. The custom process was done barely by young kids, for whom were so lackadaisical , the passengers were doing the jobs for them. Oh last but not least .. the buses taking us from the planes to the terminal, if you did not see the others bracing themselves..in time you and your luggage will be spawling all over the bus.
I'm happy you liked Budapest (I am Hungarian, living in Italy, in a town roughly halfway between Rome and Naples).
As for Fiumicino I do not like the airport and the luggage problem is real. In these last years I use low-cost airlines like Ryanair that fly from Ciampino, the other airport, a bit old-fashioned and tiny in comparison but much less messy. I use check-online and have only the trolly I can take with myself, no more waiting for hours before departure and after the arrival.
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