Home: exhausted and happy

Sorrento: some of these designs are over 1000 years old

Me in the cloisters at the Monte Cassino Abbey

Tony in the lobby of our hotel in Dubai

We attended an American memorial service at St Angelo.

We’re home – what a trip! It was incredible, but exhausting too. We had such fun; it as a very late honeymoon and a somewhat early Silver Wedding present.

We got back Tuesday night, I went to work Wednesday and had the paper done by Sunday morning. Now I need to relax for a few days and let all the information percolate in my head for a bit. In the meantime, these are a few random photos from amongst the many hundreds we took.

When good bloggers go bad

I guess I should’t say I was a good blogger, but I was certainly a dedicated blogger. It’s fair to say life overtook me recently, with art exhibiiotns, work, an overseas trip to plan – and so the excuses go on. Tomorrow TOny and I pack our bags, and the next day we head for Italy for the LEGATO exhibition. Service may be patchy but I will try and update during the trip.

This trip is exciting for a number of reasons. Tony has never been overseas and I last went overseas 30-mumble years ago. We have not had more than 3 nights away from home together since we started looking after Mum 12 years ago. (But MUm has been to my sister for a week or 10 days at a time, but we’ve stayed home and worked etc).