A week in Italy and I'm still recovering from the sheer volume the Italians muster in simple, every day speech! It's incredible!Anyway, it was a real treat to be there, at Lake Como, northern Italy for a week soley for Timo and I. We didn't do very much at all...walked a few paces from our tent to the beach, lay in the sun, read, slept, obvserved all the energetic people doing various water sports, turned over and slept some more...it was WONDERFUL!
In the evenings we had a bite to eat, sat on the beach drinking wine, read books to eachother, talked lots about everything and nothing. So romantic, just as all things should be in Italy. Oh, and we also became hugely addicted to playing spider solitar! Slightly less romantic but fun never-the-less!We drove back through Austria and Switzerland, my first time to both, and I was gasping all the way at the absolute beauty. It was like a thousand unexpected joys dropping into my sight one after the other.
We spent our second week in Germany, catching up with family and friends and generally having a blast. It was so exciting to meet our new nephew Noah for the first time and also to get to know our niece Emily a little better. Might I mention that she can in fact say my name now...and not Timo's yet. Thrilling for me. Slightly distressing for Timo! We were blessed with perfect weather for both weeks and are consequently sporting rather glorious suntans.
Perfecto.
