Here we are in the Florence Unaway Hotel right next to Florence airport and the A1 which will be taking us towards Bologna and then home tomorrow morning.Your prayers for clear roads for us are greatly appreciated!
Sunday, 7 October 2007
The last supper (for this time)
Here we are in the Florence Unaway Hotel right next to Florence airport and the A1 which will be taking us towards Bologna and then home tomorrow morning.Your prayers for clear roads for us are greatly appreciated!
Photos and this blog
As and when we have fast Internet connections we're going back to our text-only posts and adding some pictures. You might like to take a look through some of the older posts so you can see what we were talking about.We did try our best as we travelled around but most of the European mobile networks seem not to be up to the job of mobile data.
Hangovers and many fond farewells
Back online again after a day without service 8-) Thanks for the birthday present, Vodafone!
We had a wonderful night last night, including a HUGE meal cooked for us in the Villa by the Chef Claudio, and birthday cake and Ferrari Spumante thanks to Paolo. Definitely felt rough this morning, but it was a beautiful morning in Tuscany, and had such a good time last night, it was well worth it. Dany did a great job organising the party, it was excellent.
After leaving Odina we headed into Florence for lunch (next to the Duomo!) a walk around town, Gelato by the Pitti Palace, and a beer in the Piazza. A tiring but fantastic afternoon.
Unfortunately the farewells have been many and frequent, and its been sad to see everyone go. Its been great to catch up with everyone again, so planning for next year has already started! (maybe IDXX will have launched by then ;-)
It's back to the four of us now, and we've got a hotel near the Airport. The boys are all heading off @5:30 tomorrow morning. I get a sleep in and go to the airport @8:30. Now we're off downstairs to get on the Wifi!
We had a wonderful night last night, including a HUGE meal cooked for us in the Villa by the Chef Claudio, and birthday cake and Ferrari Spumante thanks to Paolo. Definitely felt rough this morning, but it was a beautiful morning in Tuscany, and had such a good time last night, it was well worth it. Dany did a great job organising the party, it was excellent.
After leaving Odina we headed into Florence for lunch (next to the Duomo!) a walk around town, Gelato by the Pitti Palace, and a beer in the Piazza. A tiring but fantastic afternoon.
Unfortunately the farewells have been many and frequent, and its been sad to see everyone go. Its been great to catch up with everyone again, so planning for next year has already started! (maybe IDXX will have launched by then ;-)
It's back to the four of us now, and we've got a hotel near the Airport. The boys are all heading off @5:30 tomorrow morning. I get a sleep in and go to the airport @8:30. Now we're off downstairs to get on the Wifi!
Lunch in Florence
We said our farewells to Paolo, Valentina and Debora this morning and made our way up the motorway to Florence. We've stopped in a ristorante for real Italian pizza one last time right next to the spectacular Duomo in the middle of the city.Javier will soon take the train to Roma with Michela following a little later, Frank and Sytse will fly back to Amsterdam (via Milan) and last of the departues Dany, Laura, Fabrizio and Heidy will make the drive back to Milan.
As we've not yet got round to booking a hotel for this evening, we're going to have to rely on our Italian speaking friends to find us somewhere nice. Fingers crossed.
The Tuscany Team
Happy birthday Clint!
Paolo and Valentina ever so very kindly provided their company, wonderful cakes and Ferrari "spoon monkey" (Heidy's version of Spumanti) to celebrate Clint's birthday at the stroke of midnight. Sytse made a most eloquent reply to Clint's acceptance and I'm very sure a great time was had by all (despite the untimely World Cup demise of the All Blacks).We were all treated to Dany's photos-with-music tribute to our time abroad, a fantastic effort of which everyone has requested a copy. Perhaps we will see something similar from this weekend?
Best wishes for a speedy recovery from the inevitable hangover go to Russ and Javier who disappeared (separately!) at some point mid-sentence during the evening. Bless.
Apologies to those who retired before Heidy's roaring log fire. And thanks to all for making the whole of Saturday a truly memorable one. I'm happy to have spent my weekend with such a nice bunch of good friends.
One last thought goes to those who couldn't make it to Tuscany. You were sorely missed and mercilessly talked about. ;-) Hopefully we will see some of you next time.
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