Up at 3.00 for trip to Venice. These early morning flights are killing me. Went to first aid in Amsterdam airport to try to get something to stop me throwing up and get sonething for this wretched throat. Arrived in Venice at 2.00. Thank goodness i had arranged for someone to pick me up. Who knew there was a back way out of the train station without pushing through everyone and doing the stairs!! Arrived at Hotel Abbazia dropped my bags, downed a quick spagetti a...

Had a great time in Milan as they won the football cup last night. The square was totally jumping and ground vibrating. If you could avoid the gypsies and africans pestering you to buy bracelets then it was such great fun. Missed Verona on the way back to Venice. Off in the morning for a 6.30 flight to Scotland.

Hi everyone, apologies as something has disrupted my blogs. I sent one from Abu Dhabi but apparently it has not appeared on my blog site. So I will start again and apologise in advance if it suddenly comes back from cyber space and is repeated. Etihad Planes are great and have good seating especially if, like me, you are luckly enough to get three empty seats alongside you and you can sleep lying down for most of the journey (if you can actually get some sleep...