Shame on you, Jörg!!!

I feel ashamed!!! My last post I see is from the 18th of June. And that really doesn't mean that nothing has happened in my live... Well where should I begin?

With the weather? Well you all know that after the hottest month of July, we had the wettest August (it rained nearly constantly). Erik and I had seen enough rain by the end of August and that's when we went to Italy to seen Erik's new born nephew Enea. On the picture you see him together with his daddy just after he is born.

Erik and I spent some days in Alano di Piave, where Erik's brother and his Italian wife live now. We found out, that we will have to learn Italian. We stayed in the house of Elena's parents (the grandparents of Enea) to discover that we couldn't communicated directly with them; they only spoke Italian. So after the vacation Erik and I started with "Italian for beginners".

After a few days in Alano we went further to see more of Italy. We went south to Rimini, San Marino (picture) and Gubbio. Then we went to see Lamberto and Emo, friends of ours in Pisa and continued our way further south to Saturnia. Here we spent the rest for our time in Italy in the hot springs, in Pitigliano and in Orvieto.

We enjoyed some wonderful food, that was washed down with some great wines. The last day in Italy we went for our Italian grocery shopping. We brought back a lot of delicious Italian cookies. Pan di stelle: Yum yum!

Though we had only two weeks in Italy I felt completely relaxed when returned to the Netherlands. Ready to face an onther year at work, LOL.