Back from Italy.

[Albert.A]

Yup, like the title says, vacation is over and I have returned to Sweden after an awesome trip to Italy. It truly is an amazing country, and If some of you guys ever get the chance to visit it, I highly recomend it! I went there by car with my whole family and lived in a BIG tent for a little more than 2 weeks, and this is the first time ever in my life that we have spent two summer vacations in a row in the same place (Imperia).

Just like last year I visited Mimmo and spent some time in his workshop, and I gotta tell ya, seeing all that briar makes me feel like a kid in a candy store, and also, Mimmo is one of the nicest guys I know, super friendly and very hospitable.

Well, thats the story of my vacation, nothing more, nothing less. Expect to soon have more of my pipes in the gallery to tear apart!

/Albert

[The Smoking Yeti]

I really want to visit Mimmo/Italy some day.... jealous!

[Albert.A]

That's one of the upsides of living in Europe, being somewhat close to the source of the briar, and the nice folks working it. But you yanks on the other hand have all the cool pipe shows. I for one would really like to go to the Chicago-show sometime, but a trip to the US is expensive so I don't know if that's ever going to happen

[Nate]

I really want to visit Mimmo/Italy some day.... jealous!

Ditto

[Nate]

That's one of the upsides of living in Europe, being somewhat close to the source of the briar, and the nice folks working it. But you yanks on the other hand have all the cool pipe shows. I for one would really like to go to the Chicago-show sometime, but a trip to the US is expensive so I don't know if that's ever going to happen

That's true, but you guys have Lohmar and many others I'd like to see But Chicago is well worth the trip!