I’m so busy relaxing….enjoying my family’s company, changing chairs from shade to sun to shade, a swim here, a terrace lunch there, a mystery novel to finish (Conor Fitzgerald’s The Dogs of Rome), that I…
View Post
Last night, surrounded by lemon trees, the dusk snuggling in comfortably around us, we pulled white plastic chairs over a stone terrace to a long collection of white plastic tables, the ten of us claiming…
View Post
Had to do some work to avoid grumpiness when we were advised by email Wednesday afternoon that Thursday’s train was cancelled because of the strike. We’ll worry later about being reimbursed. In the meantime,…
View Post
It is entirely possible that despite my considerable quotidian practicality, I may also nurture a certain Romanticism. Such that, when I head off with the Love of my Life on an adventure that combines 50…
View Post
We have an ambitious cycling itinerary planned today, 60 kilometres round-trip, over a new route we’ve worked out with a little guidebook. Last week’s 60k trip was one we’d already pedalled last year. Today’s…
View Post