I'm back. It took a few days but I've replaced the used monitor I bought five years ago. I spent a few days looking in thrift stores, finally gave up and decided to buy new. It's really hard to find good computer equipment, on sale, without a computer. Come on people, put some advertisements in the newspaper. I swear, I'm not cheap, just perpetually short of money.
So, we know that Gloria Jean visited a handful of countries on her bicycle tour of Europe. England, France, Switzerland, and Italy. All of which are connected. What we don't know is the order. Too, we know that she got to Europe on a ship, so it seems reasonable that she went back to the U.S. in the same way. Logically, as an example, start in England, a channel ferry to France, then Switzerland, and then a big finish in Italy, another country with seaports. Or the opposite.
The top two postcards clearly started life as photographs, and the third, another illustration. The top one is of a city in Switzerland, Thun. Apart from the caption on the front of the card, there is one on the back, in French, "Thoune et la Blumlisalp." The middle one in the column has a caption on the back, "No. 2711 Lauterbrunnental Staubbach." And the bottom, "No 2372 Chapelle Saint-Jean, Val d'Annivers (Suisse)" Here's a good question, Switzerland has three national languages, French, German and Italian. Why is that all the Swiss material in this collection is either in French or German, but not Italian?
So, click on The Post War European Trip Collection in labels to see more. Only two more posts to go.
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