We are staying in Italy for the time being (yes it’s still freezing – currently around -10!), but moving on from Sirmione to Mantova (or Mandua as it’s called locally!)… Compared to Bardolino, and to some extent Sirmione, at least in terms of how busy it is, and the amount of visible tourists, Mantova is […]
Sunday Photo – Ranunculus
Seeing Sirmione
A few days unplanned blog hiatus thanks to typical January germs, medical appointments, and joy of joys, snow. The kind of stuff that adds an extra 40 snow shovelling minutes to each morning (how I miss the snow blower thing we had in Denmark), as well as making the usual drive into work a […]
Sunday Photo – Snow Queen
Snow Queen
Expat Essentials – Blinis
Spending time in your native country means that you can (usually) understand everything that’s being said (unless someone’s from Glasgow and then I will admit to struggling at times) around you, which means great conversations with random people that just wouldn’t usually happen in your expat life. In shop queues, at train stations, bus stops […]