There is plenty to say about Rome, our next destination after Ischia, as part of our Italy trip in October. One thing we hadn’t expected, however, was all the cats… You can buy calendars of cats on famous monuments – and certainly if you go past any of the Roman sites at night, it doesn’t …
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Fango!
That’s mud to you…Ischia (see post re noise of the surf) is renowned for its hot springs and volcanic mud. As a treat, Dan and I decided to have one of the treatments each, and I went for the mud treatment plus shower (very necessary afterwards). The room where they did the treatment had a …
The roar of the surf – on a five second loop
It sounds like something you create on a synthesiser, but this was actually the sea around the island of Ischia, in the bay of Naples, where we started our main holiday of the year in October. As the water is less affected by tides than it is around the UK coast, the swell was pretty …
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Home is where the art is
One of the events we look forward to each year is the Edinburgh College of Art degree show. It cunningly coincides with our wedding anniversary, and we’ve had some successes finding items to buy over the last few years. This year, we couldn’t settle on anything we really liked, and left empty handed. Thankfully, in …
Searching for the perfect coffee
One advantage of trips abroad is the opportunity to try out the local food and drink. When we had a few days in Graz, Austria, coffee arrived on individual trays, each with an additional glass of water. We worked hard to try out coffees in lots of different locations across town – one way to visit stylish places on …