Thursday 6th August was spent on some domestic duties (washing, sweeping and generally tidying up). We then travelled to the town of Vallo and did some shopping at the supermarket which was very interesting. Lots of interesting fruit, meat and seafood on display, also lots of wine on offer. I restrained myself quite well but could have gone crazy and filled the trolley. It was a very hot day, mid thirties so the car AC was very welcome. After we got back to the...

Yesterday we had an active day, starting off with breakfast (fresh peaches for me) then headed off to the village hardware store to get the prepaid broadband sim recharged, did so with some fun with the language! We then headed off to have a look around the surrounding areas, down a small road to where gardens are everywhere, we stopped at the Melandrini (water spout from mountain springs all down the mountain) filling up our water bottles with cold crystal clea...

Departed Hobart on time Sunday afternoon and went through to the Emirates departure lounge very easily. It was the fastest immigration transit ever. We enjoyed a coffee and did a bit of people watching and I bought Si by Georgio Armani (birthday money from Nick), Mili found a little purse in a souvenir shop so I bought her that. We boarded our flight and settled in for our 14 hour flight to Dubai. It was the best long haul flight I've ever done, the A380 Drea...

Departed Hobart on time Sunday afternoon and went through to the Emirates departure lounge very easily. It was the fastest immigration transit ever. We enjoyed a coffee and did a bit of people watching and I bought Si by Georgio Armani (birthday money from Nick), Mili found a little purse in a souvenir shop so I bought her that. We boarded our flight and settled in for our 14 hour flight to Dubai. It was the best long haul flight I've ever done, the A380 Dream...