Happy New Year: 2024 take 3

We spent the remaining days of Italy back in Vicenza.

My very clever mother-in-law made afternoon tea and crème brûlée for us – amazing! Cakes on the top layer were from a local patisserie.

We went to see the fabulous lights in Vicenza town centre – beautiful as always. It feels so magical and they are everywhere.

We had hot chocolate which in Italy means thick and can be eaten with a spoon. I much prefer this to the hot chocolate that is common in the UK which is usually also very sweet.

We headed to a park where there ...

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Hello, long time no blog, especially over Christmas.  So, we went to Italy to visit family and then on to England, but I don’t have any photos of England – sorry.

We didn’t get up to too much, just seeing family, friends, eating, drinking, giving and receiving presents.  It was just all the usual Christmas stuff and I loved every minute.

In Italy we had a cooking lesson (a separate blog to follow); had ice cream; ate delicious food and relaxed.  We flew to Zurich with Swiss Air and then to Venice. Swiss Air were very good, we were impressed ...