Hey guys and gals, James here with a quick note from the top that we had some microphone issues on this episode,

so while the audio is clear and functional, the quality is not really up to our usual level.

My apologies on that front and we'll do what we can to avoid the same happening in the future.

Hope you enjoy the show.

Hello and welcome to another episode of The Gray NATO, a loose discussion of travel, adventure, diving, gear, and most certainly watches.

This is episode 61 and we thank you for listening.

We're recording again after another one of your whirlwind trips to Europe and I'm headed out the door here in a few days to go east to Asia, so you should just jump right in maybe with a little bit of new business.

Tell me about the concourse of Alleganza.

Yeah so I today is a Thursday and I got back Monday night from Italy where for four days I was a guest of

Longa A Longa and Zon to experience a car show that they sponsor at a very high level called Concourseo de Laganza.

It's kind of a two day thing on Lake Como, this incredibly fancy, insanely beautiful area of Italy, just about an hour outside of Milan and the

trip was like wild like I mean I've done tons of these sorts of trips and the manner in which they were able to kind of maintain

the same sort of experience in terms of from the cars to where we were staying to how we moved around.

All of that was great.

The actual event is essentially two car shows.

One that's simply called Villadesta, which is the main concourseo,

and it's at a place called Villadesta, which is the main concourseo and it's at a place called

Villadesta which is this huge villa with a hotel on it and a big private park it's

an amazing thing and it's this very small you know they. It's the biggest small car show in the world because it's probably the most prestigious

Vintage car show certainly in Europe maybe in the world depending on your position. Yeah, and and like, I think there's 58 or 59 cars.

So if you consider the number of cars that you could see at the quail or you know the pebble beach concourse something like that it's a smaller sort of event where you can really see everything you can get really close to all the cars and it's a it's a essentially a private event you have to be invited to the event at

Villadesta and this is a competition right it's that's what concourse concourse or concourse is right it's their

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