Happy, happy, happy (excuse me, Pharrell Williams, he of the silly hat). The last two weeks have been a wonderful whirl of sights, food, wine and walking, walking, walking. Lots to talk about and so many fond (and waist-expanding) memories! It was a long boring flight in an ‘Options Plus’ seat not much wider than the lid of a toilet, as well padded and with far less leg room. On the way to Italy, the woman sitting to my right was a twitcher. I think she was Italian so she had to at least have flown to Canada before. I popped in my new sound cancelling earbuds and lost myself in Diana Gabaldon’s Dragonfly in Amber. I’d read the series when it first came…

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