Tuesday, November 08, 2016

Pride cometh before a fall etc..etc...

I WANTED three items when i retired...new car, new MacBook, new apple watch...AND I did get them and proud ( and a bit smug as well) was I.

Serves me right then...

1) Had
this beauty FIVE days then...
 M & S car park bollard...

Went out and thought I was being really clever- bough a refurbished MacBook Air 11inch 250gb from Apple..then in confusion of mother injuring herself managed to pour something over it :((

Expensive repair by lovely place in St Albans Solutions.http://www.solutions-inc.co.uk/st-albans-store/...

Watch...preordered it, a lovely new one...left it in hotel in Milan...:((((  Luckily for me, Carlo was able to retrieve it  - sigh...


So, now all three are back and in one piece!  Combined cost of car and MacBook reaching towards £1000 and a meal for Carlo :)

AND I dooooo like them ...

Good Morning...

Well, its now November!!  November 8th to be precise...

Our holiday was brilliant :)

Hightlights...

Wobbly in Frankfurt...

 More bier - and food Munich...

 Driving over The Alps...

 First dawn at Nippozzano...


 Sunset at Nipozzano...

 Pontesieve...
 Florence...



 We were when we heard Mother had fallen over and broken her hip...:(((

 Caen...
Portsmouth and home...via Stoke Mandeville Hospital...

The Fazey-Wood European Tour 2016 👫

Good Morning - it is 6.29 Italian ( Central European Time) here in Tuscany...I can't describe what it looks like as we arrive in the dark and right now its still dark!!  Well, just getting light.

Here in Tuscany!  I LOVE the sound of that...

This day 3 of our little adventure, good old fashioned touring - so where have we been?

Day 1 (counting this as day 1, even though it was the evening!!)Friday 30th September 
(77 Miles)

Suzie rushed home from work - changed and we were off...to Harwich for the 23.00 ferry to Hooke Van Holland. (I had spent the afternoon restlessly pacing a circle in the living rom carpet!! )

Easy ( this will become an oft said phrase) ride in our lovely new car and arrived in plenty of time - our 'usual' meal stop was rammed so we had a wander, found a lovely Chinese that started our 'holiday off lovely🍴
On ferry with loads of time to spare as well...


Didn't feel the need this time to be on deck when we left, BUT I couldn't physically get to sleep before we had started to leave port!!  Oh hum...

Saturday 1st October  Day 2 Hook to Frankfurt 

Centro Hotel National Deluxe City


Arrived 4 ish, room airy and clean..went for a wander.  

That was our plan, arrive, walk around to have gander and find somewhere to go in the evening.  We wandered, noticed bar NEXT to hotel sold wobbly (Warstiener)..eventually returned there for a bier:) Had a lovely donner sandwich...
(There will be LOTS of food photo's on here, and so far everything we've eaten, be it in a cafe, road side service station or restaurant has been excellent 🍴)

So, to our exciting evening in Frankfurt...!! Not rushing back.  We walked to the old quarter, hum, few chairs around, few people sat on them, nothing inviting.  So we wandered on, found a square that looked 'bustling' - a duo singing some dirges, sorry, ballads with a few people dancing to them.  Felt very sordid to me, probably the grump in me coming out!!  


Right...this was as  far I went trying to write this as we went along...actually a tad disappointed with myself...

BUT good old Facebook has pics...Fazey-Wood Euro Tour 2016