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Thursday, 13 September 2012

Thursday Dawns

Until last night the Italian wine industry had had to rely on Diane and I as the only members of our party helping it along.  All six of us were managing to consume about a bottle an evening between us although it had to be said that most of that ended up in just two glasses.  Then last evening everything changed.  The girls had been to a wine festival in Greve on Sunday and brought back some rather better than average Chianti Classico.  Last night quite a lot of that disappeared.  The irony is that my consumption rarely increases much these days and neither did Diane's.   So this morning we are fine and dandy.  One or two of the others are slightly less perky!  What an evening though!  YouTube has a lot of advantages and when you have six people from two different generations brought up and living in six different countries the choice of music, the guessing, the reminiscing, the remembering, the singing and the dancing went on into the wee sma oors.

We had been expecting rain and a very poor day today but it's dawned much cooler than of late but at 0800 it wasn't looking too bad:


Let's see what the day brings.

Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Up Late This Morning

By the time I put my head on the pillow it was half past midnight last night.  It was the same time when I left the land of the awake and joined the land of the asleep.  By the time I woke this morning the sun was well over the horizon and it was 0830.  Eight hours of solid sleep.  I woke to:


Tuesday, 11 September 2012

The View: Tuesday

Up early this morning:


Monday, 10 September 2012

We're Off to See David

Our hopes may be dashed, though, because the website says there are no tickets available for booking and the queues may be very long.  Having seen Michealangelo's David in The Acedemia in Florence twice already I  am not particularly concerned if I don't see it again although it is particularly stunning and I've been quite amazed each time I've seen it.  Anyway we are off to a 6am start in the morning.  I've been up at that hour several times during the holiday on a quite voluntary basis but the idea of having to get up to be out at that time doesn't please me particularly as I'd like to watch the Murray v Djokovic final of the US Open which is, I assume, live on the TV tonight.  Ho hum.

It'll be a 2 hour journey at least into Florence (and therefore a two hour journey back).  It's going to be a long day - and I'm driving.

It's off to bed I suppose.

Night night.  I'll see you on Wednesday.