Another new country tomorrow...
Never been to Italy before, quite excited by it, my expectations are somewhere chaotic with incredible culture and damn fine coffee. I need to research how I'm going to spend the half dozen hours I have there...
The Scala and the Gallery Vittoro Emanule seem just about doable, as is some supper at a half decent trattoria. Starting to regret not giving myself an extra day there and stay in some flea pit but, I'm pretty tired after a week here in this heat and if Milan is going to be hot too then a whole day and a half wandering around coupled with planes, trains and automobiles may leave me needing another week off!
Today was great! We wnet ot Alsace for the wine and ended up in this lovely village called Riquewihr (I think) Apart from all the booze shops the best two shops were a shop that sold nothing but christmas decorations - Now, as far as I'm concerned christmas is cancelled this year, but this wasn't a shop of the usual tat, and at the risk of sounding completely gay - most things were just beautiful - This wasn't a small shop but every corner I turned I was expecting the tat to begin, but with the exception of a jewel encrusted mobile phone tree decoration, there wasn't any.
The other shop was a soap shop - the soaps were all home made and they all smelt brilliant... I bought a belgian chocolate bar as a gift and it really did have the aroma of Belgian chocolate, and it far mor Belgiany than the ordinary chocolate bar they had. - was tempted to buy one of those and the cookie bar so I could
be nice and clean and yet still smell like a chocolate digestive!
After that, went to Colmar, famous for its storks and it's pockets, but not its car park spaces sadly.
A new Richie coat from a shop in France and chicken stew for tea and the soul rounded off a lovely break...
See you in Italy.
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