We arrived back into Tuscany a week or so ago from a sojourn in Australia, Hong Kong and a glorious Thai island, to the surprise wedding of our eldest beautiful boy and his gorgeous Cape Verde Italian citizen girl. This wedding has been hovering on the horizon for months now, and looked like it wasContinue reading “A Tuscan wedding”
New Year 2010
The rain is falling and falling. The river is up, brown and frothing. It’s getting cold and we think it will turn to snow. It’s New Years day and we are recovering, cuddled up, watching movies and playing games. In our wee valley along the Lima river there are three little towns, like pearls onContinue reading “New Year 2010”
back from Rome
So we are back from Roma long enough to get my head together to write. The first day was that normal sort of thing you do in Rome. Find the closest car park, 4 train stops from your hotel, feed the meter 3 days worth of coins and head for the hotel. Forget spacious, softContinue reading “back from Rome”
ciao 2009
Ciao 2009!!! Its been a great year. Seems weird to be writing about the end of the year in our first blog – a bit like having an `Italian day’, everything you start off to do just gets in the way of the day and so, you just have to go along with the ItalianContinue reading “ciao 2009”