My Life in Flip Flops

No I haven’t joined some environmental activist group I am talking about our olive crop. It’s been a dreadful year for the trees, a lot of r...

Giovanni arrived at the weekend but stayed only one night before returning to Rome for the next two weeks.  I think we can assume the 3 cats...

Giovanni our lovely neighbour returned to Rome about the same time we arrived here.  He’s away for almost 2 weeks.  He messaged us to say he...

Just like that we are in Italy.  Maybe not that simple with 4 days in the car, 3 overnights, quick toilet stops and a lot of picnic lunches ...

This week we had an overnight stay at my brother and sister in law’s house.  The bed we slept in was the first we ever owned, I begged it fr...

I don’t court blog popularity and while I appreciate my audience reading and leaving comments I mainly write my blog for myself as a kind of...

For over 2 weeks now the North York Moors have been burning, a wild fire covering  over 2,500 acres keeps spreading sending acrid smoke as f...