In early spring of 1946 I obtained leave and had the opportunity to visit Holland or Rome. I decided to to go Rome. On the way down we stopped in Lugano Switzerland. Switzerland was nice. I don't know what happened to all the pictures I took of the Italian coast line which you would not want to see anyway. But I'd like to know where they are . Even the pictures in Rome seem to have disappeared. During our stop in Lugano we went to the top of a nearby lookout mountain and here I am with a couple of Red Cross girls who were also on a trip. Not with us however. On the way down I had a little fun and climbed a couple statues in Munich. It would get me arrested now of course. The statue with the sun on it was in the basement of a museum that had been bombed. Now this was almost a year after the war had ended and there was still almost now clean up. While in Munich on the way down I stopped and had a refreshment at the Beer Hall where the Nazis like to congregate. Of course I had a soft drink. Do they sell soft drinks? Oh well I forget. It's near the city hall. In Rome I went to the places that now are tourist traps.
I went to the catacombs and then we had a group picture taken.
On the way back to Darmstadt I stopped again at Salzburg. In Rome I watched a German Symphony and in Salzburg saw an Italian Opera. Culture shock!
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