We spent almost a whole meal laughing as we read our 1963 Collins Italian Phrase Book that we took to Turin this past weekend. It was so old fashioned. When was smoking cigarettes banned on flights we wondered reading 'Steward, have you any cigarettes?' (Camerierie, ha delle sigarette) Did anyone actually say: 'This is a rum go' and 'That's the giddy limit'. Or 'I have two pairs of socks to mend'. There are so many phrases that are no use now.
Time warp continued in the magnificent Automobile Museum. Remember the Dave Clark Five's 'Catch us if you can' album? No? Well perhaps the car that features on the sleeve is more memorable. It's a 1964 Jaguar E Type Series I OTS. We loved the psychedelic paint job on an actual 2CV . One of us travelled overland to Afghanistan in one and has the photos – hard copy in an album - to prove it. The 2CV stopped being produced in 1990.
We went on the history of cinema museum and more remembering. This time it was 'reel to reel' film, turning knobs manually on cameras, seeing a poster for a film we'd seen years ago.