Is this real life? I left sunny Florida early Saturday afternoon with the expectation of landing in Lugano around 10am the following morning after stops in Washington D. The sunshine state wished me off well with a beautiful and sunny 75 degree day and a flight that took off slightly ahead of schedule. The pleasantries stopped there, however. Fortunately, I had several hours of layover in Zurich before me flight to Lugano. The D. I boarded the Boeing two hours behind schedule and wasted no time in launching a movie from my personal, in-seat monitor one of the perks of international travel!
Feeling confident I would make my connection in Zurich, I went back to watching my movie. He then goes on to make a terrible joke about how planes run on paper not jet fuel and subsequently loses my attention. Another 30 minutes passes by. We have a curtain that is unable to close completely and it must be fixed to ensure we are up to code before we cross the Atlantic.
We have someone from our maintenance staff coming aboard to fix the curtain. This is the issue that was causing the delay in our paperwork. All in all, the flight from Washington D. Fortunately, the flight within Swiss boarders was a mere 30 minutes and there were several flights throughout the day.
I was scheduled on the next available pm flight. I was a bit apprehensive as I climbed aboard the little 40 seater prop plane because I know how much the wind enjoys playing with them. I awoke to the pilot alerting us, first in Italian and then in broken English, that because of poor visibility we were diverting to the Milan airport where a bus would shuttle us to Lugano which would take about one and a half hours. Search information about George Washington Statue in all fields: history, geography, politics, population, habits fauna and flora.
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Delfino 0 miles 0. Victoria Au Lac 0 miles 0. Novotel Lugano Paradiso 0 miles 0. La Perla 0 miles 0. Bricher, Thomas Cole and Theodore Robinson. The exhibition, which runs until the end of October, is in the lakeside suburb of Lugano-Castagnola, in 13 rooms of Villa Favorita, the thoroughly refurbished 17th-century mansion owned by Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Some paintings were then transferred to the Villahermosa Palace in Madrid, an annex to the Prado, under an arrangement between the Baron and the Spanish Government, but another works have remained in Lugano.
Villa Favorita will also be the setting, from June 25 to Oct. Those paintings are on loan from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia. Friday through Sunday, 10 A. Information: The Nos. The Cantonal Art Museum, 10 Via Canova, , in three neoclassical buildings at the center of town, contains works by Renoir, other Impressionists, Jean Arp and many regional artists.
Wednesday to Sunday, 10 A. The Civic Museum, in a neo-classical mansion in the Civic Gardens, is closed for renovation. The four-year-old Museum of Extra-European Cultures, 24 Via Cortivo, , in a neo-classical mansion in Castagnola, near the Villa Favorita, has a wealth of masks, charms, sculptures and other objects created by artists in the South Seas, Indonesia and sub-Saharan Africa.
Tuesday to Sunday, 10 A. Tuesday to Saturday, 9 A. Admission is free. Program and ticket information: Meanwhile a jazz festival in the Piazza della Riforma is scheduled for July 1 to 3, to be followed, on July 10 and 11, by a festival of acrobats. Fireworks displays will light up the lake off Lugano on July 24 and off Campione, the Italian gambling-casino enclave, on July Both an international folk festival and a wine festival showcasing Ticino vintners are set for Sept.
In a US soldier in Iraq killed Nicola Calipari, Italy's number two man in military intelligence, and wounded Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian journalist, as they were approaching an automobile checkpoint near the Baghdad airport.
A judge in Rome demanded that the soldier, Mario Lozano, be put on trial in Italy, but the US government would not hand him over. The US declared Lozano was just doing his job. This graffiti was the only instance I saw.
I was aware, however, of ongoing peace movement protests at the Aviano and Vicenza bases. George W.
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