Milan eh? Sounds like it might be a nice place to stop on our travels

 

Perhaps a flight this time. 1st class?

 

Off to Charles de Gaul Airport and then to Milan!

 

*the Questers enjoy drinks and snacks during the inflight movie before touching down in Milan*

 

Is it me or does the weather keep getting better?

 

*they check the map and then wander over to where the Statue is*

 

Do you mind doing the honours lovely?

 

*click*

 

 

Nice shot!

 

The screen went black before the following words appeared

 

Leonardo Da Vinci was a Bearer of Excalibur.

 

The words stayed there for a moment before being replaced by the next clue

 

A Knight I am but science my game. Planned procedures mark my fame. Utopia however, is my dream.

 

 

Another step closer AND we get to have pizza or pasta for dinner!

 

Any preference?

 

My treat for an excellent job so far

Edited May 15, 201313 yr by Ithillian

*experimentally decorates pizza with pasta*

 

How lovely and sunny

Makes a change hmm? We had SNOW in Cornwall yesterday. What's all that about?

 

I fancy spaghetti carbonara. It's my favourite.

Edited May 15, 201313 yr by Ithillian

I think we are going to eat our way through this trip!

.... I'm distracted by the wine.

that should be sir France's bacon but... we're not going back to England, are we?

do we go to mythical places? to Bensalem? o just the Pacific Ocean, or Peru?

or the Virginia colony? or Newfoundland or the Carolina's... damn he got around

 

*gives up, cooks up a nice carbonara... lol, that was a bacon clue?

and the snow, does that refer to this

 

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake

 

or is it an acronym...

oh, no, it's he snow stuffing death, are we looking for where he died? or just another bacon clue?

highgate?

carry on, I'm out of ideas

A Knight I am but science my game. Planned procedures mark my fame. Utopia however, is my dream.

 

I think Utopia is a reference to Sir Thomas More, who wrote a novel called Utopia that originated the word. He's buried in London, which would mean this whole trip through France and Italy has been a wild goose chase, and we're going back to London.

You got me at bacon!

um... is that right or just tasty?

Bacon pizza sounds good. But you can have your carbonara Ithi

 

I like taking pictures of famous type places and stuffs.

 

Can Lyon get us a Ferrari to drive around?

Edited May 16, 201313 yr by Turin Turambar

Highgate seems the most likely...i guess

 

The monument made at his resting place?? 

 

That's my best guess unless its actually Bensalem 

I think Bacon is right.

 

But I don't think we have the item/location that we need to release the next clue.

 

This part of the clue may help.

 

Utopia however, is my dream

 

 

Hmmmm Bensalem? Where is that?

in the pacific near Peru

unless we're being more literal... plates republic... Athens...

 

um...

 

need coffee. and bacon. bbl.

It's a real place?

 

 

What has Francis Bacon got to do with it?

Utopias aren't real unless you mean cities with that name?

 

I already mentioned Newfoundland and the Virginia and Carolina colonies so... I'm stumped...

Perhaps it's not a place we need to find this time.

 

How are Francis Bacon and this Bensalem place linked?

his book, the new Atlantis ?

Ooooh that could be it. How do you make this thing go to the Gutenburg whatchyamacallit?

 

That way we could stay in sunny Milan a bit longer

 

*Ithi passes the iPad to Cindy because she is more familiar with how it works and the novel is quickly located*

 

 

The screen goes dark and the following words appear

 

Francis Bacon was a Bearer of Excalibur

 

 

Hmmmmm, so it isn't always a location we have to find. That's interesting.

 

A few moments later the screen goes dark again before the next clue appears

 

 

You may be shocked by my experiments but it is this face you will see, value and remember.