Roman snow...?

Well, a couple of years ago when I went to Viterbo, via Rome, there was 10 inches of snow on the station platform as we stepped off the train. And it looks as if it might be planning the same thing again...
Back to the boat where happily we have a heater

A domani, tutti...

whirlwind time...

hello all -- am back in Roma -- well, Ostia, Porto di Roma -- and composing an account of January's travels -- UK, Netherlands, Switzerland, and back to our beloved Italy.
David and I are on Stroemhella, on the pontoon -- see earlier pics.

more soon...
groets from the sunshine coast...

January 2012

One month has passed (thirty days with their nights, as Wordsworth might have said -- that's one for you, Clive).

David and I flew to Amsterdam and then took the train south to Maastricht to spend a thoroughly delightful Christmas Day with Daniel and Judy and their families -- all three grandchildren together, see charming pix on Daniel's Picasa. Above a snowy picture from my back yard last Christmas; this year all warm and dry (well, pretty much so...).  
We spent New Year's Eve with Simone, friend for more than twenty years -- I met her when I translated a book she was writing and illustrating, published by the Amsterdam City Press. Some of her paintings hang on the walls in my house.
Pause here to phone David who is on Stroemhella whilst I visit Vreni in Uster, Switzerland...