Viva Italia!

It's Wednesday night as I type this and I'm having the rest of the week as well as today off.

I've just come back from the cinema in Geneva where I saw Batman. Today was just bumming around the house doing odd jobs but Thursday morning I'm heading down to Milano!

A day there walking around the massive newly cleaned cathedral and the wonderful Arcade shopping galleria, then an hour drive to Lago Maggiore (Lake Major) in the Italian Alps. It used to be frequented by the aristocracy in the 18th century and consequently has lots of lovely villas, beautiful charming streets and of course a huge lake ringed by mountains.

I'm just gonna kick back and relax. Saturday is my birthday so something special will be on the cards for that day I think. Other than that, soak up the sunshine and fresh air, read, walk, admire lovely Italian girls....Ah, it's gonna be tough!

The weather is still sunny and warm and the bulk of the tourists have left as the Swiss summer school holidays finished last week and French /other European countries holidays generally finish this week. Everyone either has or is heading back to buy books, pens, pencils and calculators and send the little devils, oops, angels back to classes...