I loves Italy I does

Hello All!

Have no fear for I have returned intact from SpaghettiLand, oh yes :o)

I had an absolutely wonderful time just wandering around Rome and Florence in the sunshine and seeing what there was to be seen. Florence in particular was beautiful, once the sun came out, and even when it was raining if I'm truthful.

While I was there I wrote a travel journal which I'll convert into some bloggage for you, so you can read about all my adventures, I'll do that separately and link to it for you, so you can choose whether to read it or not, for now, I'll give you a little taster with some of my favourite pics that I took while I was over there.

The Colosseum - Epic win

The statue of Victor Emanuele II, the first king of a united Italy

Looking into the Pantheon from the entrance

A view of St Peters Basilica from outside Castel San'Angelo

Speaks for itself, the Italian moped phenomenon!!

The view of Florence from Piazzale Michaelangelo

Eyeing up the goods on the Ponte Vecchio

Rain in Florence, a view from the Ponte Vecchio

Giardino de Boboli - part of the Pitti Palace

The ill conceived Torro Pendente

The Duomo of Florence Cathedral

Very short explanantions I know, I'll talk about what some of these places are in my longer blogs :o), enjoy xx

Digestive Pyrotechnics

I know various people who think my conversations always come back round to poo.....and yes, sometimes I do indulge in the odd fecal conversation, however, I feel I have been led astray by people at work in this regard. One of my colleagues has been on MSN from home for 3 days now, describing each motion as it passes. He has some kind of food poisoning or gastric flu....and so he's passing a motion roughly every 30 minutes!! The digestive acrobatics I've been privy to over the last few days have made even MY toes curl.....

....moving on swiftly......

I'm going to ITALY in June!! 3 nights in Rome, 4 nights in Florence. I scoured Amazon this morning and have guidebooks to Rome, Florence and Tuscany, and a book on conversational Italian winging their way to me in the post now :o). The last time I went to Rome it was in October, I want to see the Spanish Steps in Spring/Summer, they were lovely, but the pictures I saw afterwards had lots of lovely flowers surrounding them, hopefully I'll catch that this time.

I've never been to Florence but I've always wanted to and so I'm looking forward to that too. Flights and hotels are booked....just the internal train rides now.

Watch out Italy!