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Reply #45 -
07/23/25 at 10:32:35
The white one is a XEV Yoyo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEV_Yoyo
which is an EV from Hong Kong. It's one of the few EVs with a swappable battery pack.
The gray one is a Citroën Ami:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_Ami_%28electric_vehicle%29
. It's a Quadricycle which means the driver doesn't need a license to drive a car.
The little red car is a Smart Roadster Brabus:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Roadster
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I had to look up the Smart and the Citroën . I read about the Yoyo a couple of years ago since I've been researching EVs since I'm considering one as my winter vehicle when my Corolla finally dies.
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07/24/25 at 21:44:13
Thanks sjaskow for the information on the cars. I would not have known what to look for - a lot of the symbols on the cars are not anything I have seen before.
I have see a lot of Jeep Wranglers here - many of them electric. I have also seen a lot of Ford cars - only 2 small Chevrolet cars. I saw one older car that looked incredibly like a mid 80's Chrysler K car - but it was an Opel.
Yesterday I saw an Aprillia. I had expected to see more of these - this is the only one I have seen.
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07/24/25 at 22:01:11
Yesterday we went for a short (2.6 mile round trip) hike that went up a very steep hill and was pretty challenging. At the top were WWI trenches and bunkers that have been maintained and were in good shape. The bunkers had several gun positions, barracks, ammunition storage.....and we even found the latrine that was built over a small stream!
The trenches covered a large area and the gun positions where oriented toward Lake Como and the town of Menagio. The gun bunkers were somewhat concealed in that they were located in a rock cliff and blended in with the native rock. It was an extensive facility and the trenches covered a larger area.
We also saw a church where one local told us Mussolini had been executed in WWII. He was fleeing the advancing American troupes and trying to reach Switzerland which is on the north side of the mountains from Lake Como. He was reportedly recognized in Dongo and the Italian military executed him at the church. His body was then taken to Milan and was on public display so the people would know he was dead.
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07/24/25 at 23:05:02
This is our last day in Italy. We will be leaving Lake Como around 1AM to drive to the airport and begin our long journey home. We leave Italy at 6AM and have a 4 hour layover in France, then an 8 hour flight to Cincinnati.
Italy has been great. There have been some challenges as even simple things can be confusing. Door knobs, light switches and toilets all operate differently than in the US. Public transportation (busses, trams, ferry boats) has been somewhat frustrating - two days ago we bought round trip tickets on the bus and we got out but had no luck getting back.....apparently the busses were full and 2 of them just passed right by without stopping (we had to take a Taxi home). The signage and directions are just not complete enough for people who are not familiar with the system, and it is easy to do the wrong thing and end up walking!
The one thing I am not going to miss is the drivers and traffic The drivers here are far more aggressive and in a much bigger hurry than the drivers in the rural area I come from (some US cities may be as aggressive as Italian drivers).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ_UJelzxOc
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We made it home after a long Saturday commute.
We got up at midnight in Lake Como to start our trip home. We drove for a couple of hours to get to the airport in Milan. I am amazed how many drivers are on the highway at 12-2AM.....on the narrow road along Lake Como all the little roadside bars where still full of people!
When we got to the airport in Milan turning in the Hertz rental car was crazy. On the first trip around we missed the driveway to get to the rental car return and had to loop around. On the second trip around we got the correct lane for the return, however the road we were on got us in sight of the Hertz lot - but we were not on the road that would get us access to that lot. The Hertz and several other companies were on 2 signs - but then the Hertz directional signs stopped and it took 3 more tries to finally get where we needed to be. We left with plenty of time available as I had worried about how confusing it would be to navigate an unfamiliar airport in a different country where the road signs were in a language I don't speak!
I am happy that we were able to drive in Italy and not have any mishaps......the driving there was very much out of my comfort zone.
Out flight to Paris was not eventful and we had a planned 4 hour layover for the 9 hour Delta flight to Cincinnati. It turned out our plane was late and our layover was closer to 6 hours.
On the way home we crossed 6 time zones and our 9 hour flight landed in Cincinnati just 3 hours later than the time we left!
Customs in Cincinnati was crazy. We had to pick up our bags at a luggage carousel - only to drop them off again to go through a baggage check. We then had to go through an immigration screening and then a TSA screening as if we were getting on another flight (even though we were just going out to the parking lot). Cincinnati treats everyone the same and makes you go through TSA as if you are getting on another flight.....we had to dump out our water bottle and pass though the security checks in order to go to the baggage claim and then go home! (What a waste of manpower and facilities). How hard would it be to just divert Cincinnati folks to another area and avoid having a TSA screening that isn't needed.
We arrived home 26 hours after we started our journey home. We went to bed last night around 9PM - which would have been 3AM on the sleep schedule we had become accustomed to. Obviously I am going to have to adapt to the new time zone!
My grass has not been cut in more than 2 weeks and it is more than a foot long! I will have to cut it long and then make another couple of cuts at lower heights to get things back under control without creating huge clumps of cut grass coming out of the mower.
It was an amazing trip!
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