Vigna di Valle
You have an incredibly understanding wife if she doesn’t mind being dragged around air museums during a romantic holiday in Italy.
She spent the day in Tivoli, looking at old buildings and fountains, I know where I’d rather have been! 😉
And that’s in spite of a 7-hour return journey to Vigna di Valle from central Rome by Italian public transport – they say it’s only 26km outside the city.
Trains seem to run when (and if) they feel like, and I was left with a 4-mile walk, up and down hills and carrying a camera bag and tripod, the far end due to a lack of bus connections to the museum and no taxis whatsoever!
There were a total of 4 visitors during the time that I spent in the museum, and 2 of them were from New Zealand.
Still, it’s one of the world’s great collections, and well worth the visit. It’s free to get in to, but on a Military base, so you need to take ID. I’d have been well miffed if I’d have gone all the way there, only to have been refused admission.
It’s an old seaplane base on the shores of a lake, and one of the old seaplane cranes from the 1930s and the original mooring jetty survive, along with the hangers, some dating back to WWI,
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