3:35pm, Venizia. Sunny and 28°C. We’ve been truly blessed with the weather on this trip — with a couple of slightly hazy days and a cloudy morning exception, it has been sunny throughout. Indeed, in Florence it was slightly too hot — but here in Venice it’s been delightful. As indeed has been the city. […]
11:50, Siena. We had a lovely day driving through Tuscany in our little Smart car which we have named “Principessa”. After heading out of Florence (a very lengthy procedure involving many wrong turns) we headed south through increasingly interesting terrain towards Montalcino. We stopped for a picnic lunch with a bottle of Rosso in the […]
3:30pm, Florence A quick note on the wonderful food we’ve been enjoying: Sausage-dogs and beer in a Munich beer garden, refreshing and slightly gassy. A lovely raclette (melted cheese on potatoes with pickles on the side) in Zurich. Lots of fish dishes, especially involving anchovies (salty!) in Cinque Terre. Plus a specialty dish of “the […]
Vernazza, Italy. 6:17pm. An abbreviated travel post just to catch up to where we are today… We haven’t had much time for diary entries so I’m composing on the spot. Anyone who was at the wedding will be in no doubt how happy we were. It was truly a perfect day — perfect weather, perfect […]
Married! We had an ideal weekend, great weather, wonderful music, but the best thing of all was to have all of our friends and family together to share it all with. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for helping make this a truly perfect weekend. And we’re off! My lovely bride and I […]
The spring is moving by very quickly. It seems that every work day is sunny and warm, but every weekend or holiday is rainy. We had a year like this a couple of years ago… Very distressing. Hopefully it will turn around in time for the wedding! Which is coming along nicely, thank you very […]
A big week! The Exultate Chamber Singers competed in the CBC Choral Competition on Wednesday night — live to air across the country on CBC Radio Two — and we won! I mean, we won not only our category — the hotly contested Chamber Choir group — but the big kahuna, the Healey Willan grand […]
We attended our wedding preparation course on the weekend. It was surprisingly good, entertaining, engrossing and thought-provoking. We feel almost ready now!
After a few more busy and intense weeks both Anne and I got hit with the flu last weekend. I think we’re both on the mend now but we’re still full of sneezes, coughs and snurfs of various kinds. Which is a bit too bad, because it put a bit of a downer on Anne’s […]
A month has past, the blog is gathering dust. But it’s been a busy month. We got our wedding invitations last weekend and will be working on getting them mailed out Really Soon Now. We finished hanging pictures in most of the rooms of our house. We went for a nice ski weekend up north, […]