My favourite month of the year. By a mile. Summer’s up and running and I get to celebrate my birthday – yaaas! This June, I turned 40. So I milked it for all it was worth: a big family feast followed by a week in the motherland (Italy). After a lot of running, and a […]
A change is as good as a rest
I recently returned from two weeks in Italy. A blissful holiday to switch off, spend time with family, forget about work and soak up the sun. Perfect! La famiglia I’ve chatted about my Italian heritage in earlier posts: ‘5 days in Italy’ and ‘Roadtrip to Italy’ For years, being a Welsh-Italian to me meant huge family […]
A week in Italy in 3 pics
I’ve mentioned in earlier posts that a few times a year, I head to the hills of northern Italy. The formal line is that I go over, roll my sleeves up, and work hard bringing my family’s rustic shack up to scratch. The reality is that’s a feeble cover story for gorging on pizza and […]