To grass stained Jeans 
@Lisa_S
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Hey Silvia!
Such a great picture! Where is that?
Tod
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Wow, what a beautiful sight on a not so small village on a hill! 
Itās so sweet of you Silvia, thanks for that lovely postcard! 
Completely get the grass stained jeans feeling, too!
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Memories kick inā¦ 
. For my mother grass stained Jeans werenāt that much of a problem. It was even worseā¦ I was always running with the boys outside, so my Jeans were torn and my mother had to iron on all those ugly patches to cover the holes. @Lisa_S do you remember those patches? Another Symbol for my youth, like the Zitronenfalter .
Beautiful village up there, reminds me on a stay at the tuscany coast. Mare e monti, I love that!
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@CATMAN62 @Lisa_S @Helen0609 This is the village I was born itās in the Ligurian Coast in the North of Italy, only a few kilometers from the Cinque Terre areaā¦I took this picture yesterday morning as I was walking up to my parentsā houseā¦so many lovely memoriesā¦things are changed though, and that most steep down stone and earth staircase which leaded to the woods is not there anymoreā¦we were running down soo fast and free! I could spend the all afternoon describing how many things have changed there!
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What a lovely place to grow up, Silvia!
Itās good to preserve loads of good memories about the places we grew up. By that, we kind of keep the charmes in us, even though they changed. Itās probably the same thing anywhere. Nevertheless, in our memory we can cherish these things and some changes are also quite good. 
Oh yes, Andrea! Remember them all to well. I also was more like an outside kind playing in the dirt. 
These are good memories as well, but regards the cloths Iād rather not to look on pictures of these days. Or even the haircuts. 
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ā¦Omgā¦the haircuts 
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@SILVIA @Lisa_S In Germany they called it āRundschnittā (roundcut). Fitted for everybody. Didnāt matter, if boy or girl 
. My husband and I compared pics out of that time . Same kind of clothing, same haircut, fashion was awful back thenā¦
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@Helen0609, at least ārundschnittā sounds better then the Dutch word for it: ābloempotā (flower pot) 
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Love the bloempot! In our area it was called āTopfschnittā as in put a pot on the head, cut around the edges, thatās it.
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Wow! Amazing photo, Silvia! And you were born there?! 
Absolutely unfathomable from a kiwi tucked away in the underside of the world where our towns are so plain and boring! 
Super cool and love your shared stories above with @Helen0609 & @Lisa_S - made me laugh!
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@LadyOfTheCastle @Lisa_S To be honest, most people actually called it āTopfschnittā, but I remember being brought to the hairdresser as a child and my mother ordered the āRundschnittā there, maybe their way to disguise this kind of ābodily harmā
If it helps, Jeff, I can assure you that lots of Europeans have NZ top on their wishlist for travelling . It must be such a beautiful country. Everything but boring. Itās hard to keep up with Italian cities and villages anywayā¦give us Germans some Italian flavour and we are melting like ice in the sun 
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OMG, I had almost managed to forget about it 
How happy I was when the 80s finally came to an end and the 90s arrived! 
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