Whales and fast jets

This morning we went out into the Atlantic on a catamaran on a whale watching trip. I wasn't expecting to see any, but after an hour we met first a group of beaked whales, then a pod of pilot whales.Leggi altro
This morning we went out into the Atlantic on a catamaran on a whale watching trip. I wasn't expecting to see any, but after an hour we met first a group of beaked whales, then a pod of pilot whales.Leggi altro
All the arrangements worked OK, and as repeat guests at the hotel they gave us a bowl of fruit (and the fruit here is wonderful!), and a dark madiera cake, and half a bottle of dry madiera wine. AllLeggi altro
This trip and the last one in Bulgaria have been pretty full on. Maybe the next one will be sitting by the pool and reading a book!
The last time we were in Turin, the new Egyptian museum was only half finished, even so it still took us 3 hours to get round it. Now it's complete and twice the size, no surprise it took us justLeggi altro
We caught the high-speed train from Florence to Turin, this starts in Naples and travels across Italy to Florence, Bologna, Milan and finally Turin. It is very comfortable and goes at 300 km /hr.Leggi altro
In the morning we went to the Pitti Palace, the home of the medici family. They were bankers to the pope and the vatican , were unbelievably rich, built much of florence, and were patrons of the bestLeggi altro
Just some pics around Florence. You can why the painters were so good at painting the sky.
I saw the highlights of the Uffizzi a few years ago when we came with Janet and Davina and don't share Tim's interest in Renaissance art, so wandered round Florence and went to the ArchaeologicalLeggi altro
Breakfast in the sun on our terrace, lovely - so it was difficult to drag ourselves up and out, but I'd planned to spend all day in the Uffizi gallery and lynette was going to the archaeologicalLeggi altro
Before we came the weather forecast was for thunderstorms every day. So far we have been lucky and had none. Both yesterday evening and today, a few isolated drops of rain sent us indoors from theLeggi altro
We have water coming from the skies here but no whale pods to admire just pea pods from the market. That jet in the blue sky seems unreal compared to the heavy cloud over Wendover. [Eve]