Comments on: Crossing the Alps – Grand Tourist style/2018/02/21/crossing-the-alps-in-style/Tales from Italy, Alps, British Isles and FranceWed, 12 Jan 2022 13:19:31 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Veni, Vidi, daVinci – Leonardo’s journey from Rome to Amboise in 1516 – (Part 2) Milan to Amboise via Geneva and Lyon – Tour de Travoy/2018/02/21/crossing-the-alps-in-style/comment-page-1/#comment-24192Tue, 26 Jan 2021 18:57:59 +0000/?p=13531#comment-24192[…] passes and on some such as Mont Cenis, chair porters were very common. Tour guide and historian Janet Simmonds described how travelers in the 17th Century recorded being transported by chair as follows […]

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]]>By: Art can make you laugh… – The Educated Traveller/2018/02/21/crossing-the-alps-in-style/comment-page-1/#comment-23107Sun, 29 Nov 2020 16:51:13 +0000/?p=13531#comment-23107[…] and died in Munich in 1885. He painted this scene of a small group of wonderfully earnest young Grand Tourists getting to grips with some seriously archaeological ruins in Southern Italy or possibly Sicily in […]

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]]>By: Janet Simmonds/2018/02/21/crossing-the-alps-in-style/comment-page-1/#comment-21459Sun, 23 Aug 2020 19:32:20 +0000/?p=13531#comment-21459In reply to Investigating the route Leonardo da Vinci may have used to travel from Rome in Italy to Amboise in France in 1516 – Tour de Travoy.

Thank you!

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]]>By: Investigating the route Leonardo da Vinci may have used to travel from Rome in Italy to Amboise in France in 1516 – Tour de Travoy/2018/02/21/crossing-the-alps-in-style/comment-page-1/#comment-21458Sun, 23 Aug 2020 18:00:49 +0000/?p=13531#comment-21458[…] passes and on some such as Mont Cenis, chair porters were very common. Tour guide and historian Janet Simmonds described how travelers in the 17th Century recorded being transported by chair as follows […]

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]]>By: John Eaton/2018/02/21/crossing-the-alps-in-style/comment-page-1/#comment-1546Tue, 27 Mar 2018 20:09:46 +0000/?p=13531#comment-1546I must admit that the thought of Janet – assisted perhaps (out of necessity) by Lucy, hot-footing it over the Alps, bearing me aloft in a cushioned sedan chair, taking care to ensure that I don’t get my gown dirty, is not without a certain appeal…..
But I mustn’t let my imagination run away with me, so will just congratulate you, Janet, yet again on another most interesting and readable blog.
As a keen skier who was brought up under the expert tutelage of ruddy-faced yodelling Swiss farmers in Lederhosen, feathered hats and blowing those huge long horns with a bend in the middle to call home the Gruyere cheese in the evening, I was most interested to see that map from 1905 – but which has only served to highlight a question which I suppose even the most basic Geography student could answer, but about which I am not certain, and have never bothered to look up the answer – but – betraying my ignorance – where do the Alps end, and the Dolomites begin? On the map, it looks as if you were saying that all the mountains coloured brown, comprised the Alps – but those just over the border into Italy are surely the Dolomites?
I look forward to your next blog in a state or perpetual agogness!
Luv
John

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]]>By: Janet Simmonds/2018/02/21/crossing-the-alps-in-style/comment-page-1/#comment-1542Mon, 26 Mar 2018 17:35:32 +0000/?p=13531#comment-1542In reply to Mary Lou Peters.

Je t’adore Mary Lou xxxxx

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]]>By: Mary Lou Peters/2018/02/21/crossing-the-alps-in-style/comment-page-1/#comment-1541Mon, 26 Mar 2018 17:17:38 +0000/?p=13531#comment-1541And there I am sitting in that fancy sedan chair! How cool! Thanks for the education of how things used to be for the Grand Tourists. In my experience, it’s not much different today traveling with Janet and Grand Tourist Travel.

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