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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 7918148, member: 100459&quot;]I was very lucky.&nbsp; My father was in the Army and we lived in Europe twice.&nbsp; My first move to Europe was to Germany in 1953.&nbsp; I was six.&nbsp; When I was 8, my parents took us on a tour of Europe.&nbsp; Our first stop was in Paris.&nbsp; Can you image what it felt like when an 8 year old goes to the top of the Eifel Tower?&nbsp; There were stairs and an elevator.&nbsp; We took the elevator.&nbsp; Our next stop was the Arche de Triumph sp?&nbsp; </p><p>Our next country was Italy.&nbsp; We skirted the Mediterranean Sea.&nbsp; We travelled in a 1950 Studebaker Commander.&nbsp; It was very hot and we talked our parents into letting us swim.&nbsp; He pulled to the side of the road and went to the beach.&nbsp; He came back and told us we could not swim there, that we would have to go to another beach.&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t until years later that I was told that the beach we couldn&#039;t go to was a nude beach.&nbsp; Dad had some binoculars.&nbsp; My brother and I were able to see the people on the nude beach.&nbsp; There was a U.S. Navy ship in the Sea.&nbsp; Our binoculars were strong enough to see the sailors and they, too, were looking at the nude beach.</p><p>Our next stop was Rome and all the beauties it held.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know how to spell them but we went underground to the catacombs.&nbsp; I stuck my hand in one of the &quot;shelves&quot;.&nbsp; Sorry about the lengthy message.&nbsp; We went to the Leaning Tower of Pisa.&nbsp; There were 2 ways up to the bell tower.&nbsp; One was on the outside and the other on the inside.&nbsp; There was an age limit on the outside.&nbsp; My father let us go on the outside for a few floors.</p><p>I had a bucket load of European coins from each nation, but, I was 11 when we returned to the states, so I wasn&#039;t very careful.&nbsp; I do love to see your coins from foreign countries.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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