Humph..there has to be a better blogging engine than this one. It takes too long to log in which is one reason for my lack of dilligence.
Anyway sod the financial crisis, this is all about me.
Haven’t got anywhere with the house yet apart from clearing some junk. Got some shelves up today and got things a little organised. Boxes off floors etc. Tell you what trekking downstairs in a dressing gown on bare floorboards to an unheated bathroom at the back end of the house in Winter is a really nasty thought even right now. A friend suggested a gazunder for those midnight callings…you know, gazunder the bed, but I think that is a despicable idea.
I seem to be permanently tired at the moment so not much is going to happen for a couple of weeks. I finish early this week, Thursday and I am off to Florence for a couple of days. I’ve just had a major panic looking for my camera charging adaptors. Finally found them stuffed in a box (not where they should have been). It would have been a case of going to the cradle of the renaissance with -gasp horror…a 35mm camera.
I look forward to Florence but not getting there: this is going to be another early morning trek on the bike to Stansted (Bike parking is free) then laying a waterproof on the ground for changing before stripping off my gear, Bond-style, and emerging like a beautiful butterfly from a chrysalis in what I fondly imagine to be the most stylish travel gear suitable for Italy that I can find in my tired old wardrobe. This is how I did Naples last year and it was freezing. Weather report looking okay so far and the good news is that my flight is a civilized 8.30am so I at least I won’t be setting off at four in the morning.
I was supposed to be having 10 days in Spain but that fell through due to other parties’ finances…ah well, I’m not very good at sitting by a pool. Anyway this will be the last of the major Italian cities that I have visited. I could do without the spend but I booked it months ago and its only 4 nights and the hotel is cheap. I will be doing a bit of social catch up when I get back next week.
