The wedding is finally here & the picture shows one first cousin Nicola and one of dads first cousin's daughter Stephania with Daniella. Marco is here and of course at the cousins table is the centre of attention. I would love to be able to show you all the family but it is a bit hard with all your cousins and there families as unlike Daniela's and Luigi's wedding where all the cousins were on one long table they have been separated by more or less family ...

This photograph was taken in Venice as you can see not all streets in Venice has water as their front or back door there are some paved areas not many but a few. Today Thursday we leave for Lucerne, we have left beautiful Venice. We have reached the border

We have reached Switzerland O my goodness it is magnificent a bit colder than Italy. We have just crossed Chiasso an Italian speaking area, this area is in the south of Switzerland it does not snow very heavy here, it is surrounded by lake Luganao. Switzerland has an are of 41 sq meters and 8 million people mostly foreigners living in Switzerland these include Italians, French and Germans. The education in Switzerland is free and they learn now English, French...

We had breakfast in the Hilton hotel in Venice, the buffet was unbelievable the best ever, the beautiful spread made up for the ordinary meal last night. The breakfast& buffet rooms are as big as our house, the hotel is huge. There is a Nutella bar in the reception area. Hence the picture. Today we set off to the duomo of St Marco. We walk around the piazza for half a day then we went on a Gondola ride through Venice, later we proceeded to Murono where w...

We are in Florence for only one day it is beautiful, we caught up with Rosanna who has not changed at all, her hotel is very nice -Hotel Colombo. Today we had a guide called Giovanna who guided us through the piazza where they are filming the movie called "inferno " directed by Ron Howard. We also went into an area where they showed you how to make leather . Also we visited Ponto Vecchio, after some lunch and an ice cream paid by insight we walked for half an...