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TERRACE BAY WINS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT (cont.) The outside students were billeted for supper and according to reports everyone was well fed, Many thanks to the parents, officials and supporters for this top-notch event, Tentative plans have been made and the next meet will be in the Nipigon Continuation School Gym on January 16th, 1954. 0-0-0 NA TRIP TO EUROPE"! Second article in the series i Miss Margaret Laundy. We left faris October 17th by train + passing through Dijon, the south western tip of Switzerland and into Italy through the Simplon Pass by a railway tunnel 127. miles long. Late that evening we arrived in Milan, Italy's largest industrial city. After finding a hotel, off we went to sample our first huge plate of spagetti and tomato sauce sprinkkled with cheese, Jt was deli- cious, The waiter who spoke a little Eng- lish attempted to show us how to eat by twirling the spagetti arourid a fork using our spoon as a pivot, But one explanation was hardly sufficient for that feat! Our meal also included unsalted crusty white bread and chianti, red wine, in its distinc- ive wicker basket, The waiter was then quite put out when we asked for the bill for as we found out, this is just a start for the Italians, Spaghetti is their entree, ~ the main dish follows, then fruit; and of course the more you eat the bigger the tip. Our first "run in" with Italian men came the next day when on a street corner we opened a map of the city to find directions They swarmed around us like bees over honey in their loud striped suits, pointed patent leather shoes and short cut away jackets, Much to my sorrow I found I could look over the heads of 90% of them - and I'm not that tall! Finally a bus conductor separating himself from the crowd insisted on showing us the way to the Duomo Cathedral but first stopping into a bar for a small very power- ful cup of coffed called "expresso", The. Cathedral reminded me somewhat of a birth- day cake with candles, The building itself was squat but impressive because of the multitude of spires, eath surmounted with a statue of some religious personality, said to total 2,000 on the exterior of the building alone. Some 2,000 more were inside, In the small church of Santa Maria delle (cont, on next col.) _ pelow us. Pood 'tA TRIP TO EUROPE" (cont, ) Grazie is housed. Leonardo da Vincis "The Last 'Supper", painted on the wall of one of the Church buildings - the only wall to remain ea aN after a heavy bombing attach Venice was a must on our itinerary, and if you can forget the "ack of paint and Sanitation it certainly is an enchanting place. It is built right in the Adriatic Sea on piles on some 120 small islands, There are no motor vehicles or even bicycles allowed in Vénice as all trans- portation is done by steam boat on the grand canals and by gondola or small barges on the smaller canals. The gondolier has. to be just as dexterous as a New York taxi driver to get his long black gondola round the House corners and through the heavy traffic in the small canals, Of course we had to have a ride in one} Our next-stop was Florence, probably more renounced than any other city in the world for its'collection of art, During our visits to the galleries, museums and cathedrals we were also taken to a Capuchin Monestary where. we saw e workshop :run by the Monks for boys apprenticing in leather work, It was filled with Lovely tocled, embossed and painted leather products - purses, wallets, bags, unbrella «covers ete,., work for which Italy is so well known, In a similar school we saw boys apprenticing in mosaic work, cutting suitable sizes of different: coloured marble to fit into a . pattern or picture for table tops, cigarette boxes, music boxes, etc. A great deal of exacting. work igs involved, We drove up to Michael Angelo Square, through olive groves and Lombardy Poplars to have a lovely view down over the Arno River which runs through the heart of Florence, One of the most inhopastink features of Rome is the amazing contrast between the very ancient and the very modern, Main- ly with the aid of the Marshall plan the Italians have done a great deal of re- construction since the war, The railway station built entirely cf glass and marble is a marvelous example of modern architecture in a design to which Canada, as a part of the modern world, has: nothing to compare From the top of the Capataline Hill, one of the seven on which Rome is built, we had a view over the entire city with the ancient ruins of the Roman Forum and Coliseum We drove along the Appian Way, still marked with stones of Roman origin, to the Catacombs, an underground system i (cont. on page 5)