Well once again a little while since the update. We are in Sicily on a month's holiday and preparing the ground ofr Marco and Cinzia's arrival in October. We've done a lot of cleaning and moving stuff and getting to know some people here. A lot of the stuff has been quite tiring and stressful and I am totally knackered.
God willing we will now get to relax now and rest properly. We have been having some rest - nipping to the beach and going snorkling lots - but we haven't really been able to relax properly as there have been other people with us.
Andrea has been in the wars (not me!! All changes). Yesterday she stood on a sea urchin and had a spine in her foot - she just pulled it out and carried on well hard. This morning a very larghe gate slammed onto her fingers and has mangled one up it is well black and this afternoon she disturbed a viper which was not amused. Praise God it didn't strike her as it is really poisonous. It was only about a foot long but the Italians were very nervous about it. It went a bit nuts for a while after I flushed it out of a hole with water on the steps upto our rooms and we had to kill it which is a shame but necessary with children around.
Our new address is Nuovo Centro Rifugio, Via Indipendenza 52/a, 95030 Mascalucia (CT), Sicilia, Italy and we have a new Italian landline number - 0039 095 727 00 86 - but we still have our UK one. However we don't have permenant internet access so if you catch us on the uK one ot will either be by design or fluke :-) But you caln leave messages - especially as it is my birthday on Thursday - hooray - we are going exploring and snorkling and maybe some pizza.
The trip here was tiring (11 hours driving fom Rome) but absolutely stunning - through the mountains down the spine of Italy - truly amazing. Etna hgasn't errupted though it is smoking a little and there have been some interesting noises coming from it. We are halfway between the top of Etna and the sea - probably about 10 km each way. It is bizarre to think that we are on the side of a volcano, it is also bizarre snorkling and seeing the solidified lava on the sea bed. The sea is teeming with life and anybody who comes to visit will have to come snorkling with us - it is so beautiful.
We've been eating a lot of fresh fruit from the land we are on - green and red grapes, peaches, different types of apricots, pears, cacti fruit to name some and all our vegetables so far have came from the garden - amazing stuff :-) Thats it for now....
God willing we will now get to relax now and rest properly. We have been having some rest - nipping to the beach and going snorkling lots - but we haven't really been able to relax properly as there have been other people with us.
Andrea has been in the wars (not me!! All changes). Yesterday she stood on a sea urchin and had a spine in her foot - she just pulled it out and carried on well hard. This morning a very larghe gate slammed onto her fingers and has mangled one up it is well black and this afternoon she disturbed a viper which was not amused. Praise God it didn't strike her as it is really poisonous. It was only about a foot long but the Italians were very nervous about it. It went a bit nuts for a while after I flushed it out of a hole with water on the steps upto our rooms and we had to kill it which is a shame but necessary with children around.
Our new address is Nuovo Centro Rifugio, Via Indipendenza 52/a, 95030 Mascalucia (CT), Sicilia, Italy and we have a new Italian landline number - 0039 095 727 00 86 - but we still have our UK one. However we don't have permenant internet access so if you catch us on the uK one ot will either be by design or fluke :-) But you caln leave messages - especially as it is my birthday on Thursday - hooray - we are going exploring and snorkling and maybe some pizza.
The trip here was tiring (11 hours driving fom Rome) but absolutely stunning - through the mountains down the spine of Italy - truly amazing. Etna hgasn't errupted though it is smoking a little and there have been some interesting noises coming from it. We are halfway between the top of Etna and the sea - probably about 10 km each way. It is bizarre to think that we are on the side of a volcano, it is also bizarre snorkling and seeing the solidified lava on the sea bed. The sea is teeming with life and anybody who comes to visit will have to come snorkling with us - it is so beautiful.
We've been eating a lot of fresh fruit from the land we are on - green and red grapes, peaches, different types of apricots, pears, cacti fruit to name some and all our vegetables so far have came from the garden - amazing stuff :-) Thats it for now....
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