Back to reality: Reflections on Italy

I have returned from my travels to the Veneto and a wonderful time was had too. I tried to offset the excessive pizza and ice cream consumption with lots of sight-seeing and walking. I made a valiant effort but alas I think I’m still in debt to the lard lord.

We left Venice till last and [...]

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Ciao for now amici

I’ve been getting quite a lot of usage out of WordPress’ forward-publishing functionality recently. It’s weird to think that I’m writing this post now, at my computer, but when you read this tomorrow (or now for you) I will be in Italy.

I’ll be away for a week and spending my time in the Veneto: Padua, [...]

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