Fill your days with life, not your life with days
Photo: Jan, Gerben, Jeanne and Colin celebrating the end of a very productive visit to Arnhem. 2,864 km and 30.5 hours in the car. Our return trip to Arnhem to see Gerben and Jeanne. It was a business trip. Out on Sunday, back on Thursday. Our business was to meet with a sponsor of Colin's …
Photo: Colin, Jane, Pete, Jane and Davide Wine in English would have been a more accurate description. Our friend Peter, who lives in Fano invited us to a wine tasting to help out his friend Davide. Davide is a sommelier who wanted to practise his English to help him with conducting wine tastings for tourists. …
Photo: One of the three guests was responsible for the travel arrangements to Amsterdam. For the record, it wasn't our nephew. In our recent post, The Long Goodbye we talked about leaving London and seeing off our American guests at 2 o'clock in the morning the day before we drove a thousand miles to …
Photo: So Tuscan. The view from our hotel bedroom in Tavarnelle Val di Pesa. I was amazed, and delighted, when Jan said yes to an invite to join some Pansèr friends on a cycling weekend in Tuscany. It didn't really go well for her. I do hope it hasn't put her off for good. I …
Photo: ICC Italian Job caps on their way to Italy. Our annual migration to Italy was a little earlier than usual. Our Brexit plan, CoJexit, was designed so that we'd be in Italy a week before Brexit, just in case. We stuck to our plan, the UK government, not having a plan, didn't. By 23:00 …
Photo: Making sure they made the bus It's 03:32 on Friday 22nd March. It's dark outside. We've just said goodbye to three guests as they continue their tour of Europe. To do this we had to break our own rule: No guests the week before we leave for a season in the other house. Over …
Photo: Jan's never been keen on having her photo taken The plan for Jan's birthday was a little up in the air. Literally. Lunch at the Fenchurch Restaurant in the Sky Garden at 20, Fenchurch Street - more commonly known as the Walkie Talkie. A tropical garden 150m above the street with 360° views across …
Photo: Las Palmas Gran Canaria, not quite as hot and sunny as we hoped. Jenni Russell recently declared in The Times that "We've forgotten the vital need to convalesce" and that ".... the Victorians were right about recovery time". The article lamented that our lives are so busy these days that we just don’t have …
Since returning from the Netherlands we've not been well. It could have been a virus, or it might have been the pork we bought in France on our way home. Either way we spent two days in bed and over a week coughing and spluttering. We weren't sure if we should go to the theatre …
"An International Driving Permit 1968 please" Post Office employee "When are you going?" "23rd of March" PO "We can't issue an IDP valid from 23rd March." "We don't need one for the 23rd March. We might need one from 23:00 GMT on the 29th March" PO "But you won't have a licence from the 23rd …
Colin and Jan Fisher 