Italy in December

- Just found this post still in 'drafts' so I'll post it now!!!! -

We're just back from a little trip to Forli to see the Rossi clan. We flew out on Thursday morning with KLM via Amsterdan to Bologna.

Now, it's quite an unusual thing to go and stay with friends instead of family but for quite a few years, this is what we have been doing so as not to put my family out too much. All of them would, of course, turn themselves upside down for us, we know that, but actually it makes us a little bit uncomfortable to do it. Instead we've been staying with Anna, our friend of many years! She originally came to us when she was 19 and I was about 7. Her mum and my Nonna went to the same church, and her mum thought it'd be good for her English to come and stay with an English family! 30 plus years later, she speaks better English than the rest of us and we are all still firm friends!

Anyway, her and her other half, Wainer, have recently bought the flat above hers & knocked the 2 together! It's AMAZING, and, of course, it means there's LOADS of space - double what was there before of course, so that's where we stayed.

Dan hadn't ever been to Forli before - he'd been to the little house and to Rome but not the town where I spent all my summer holidays, so it was lovely to show him around.

More on this when I write it...!