My time in Sicily is coming to an end soon – on Thursday night I will be driving to Messina, then catching the overnight ferry almost to Naples, with a further nine hour drive after that. I should be home just in time for dinner. Pinuccia and Stefania will then be catching the plane on [...]

Last night was the reason why we came to Sicily: the wedding of Pinuccia’s cousin and one of our friends. Since it was in the same church as our wedding three years ago, it brought back memories… Even the photographer recognised us (we had suggested him to the couple, since he did such a good [...]

It is now Friday morning, time to start packing as we will be leaving at 4.30pm for three weeks in Sicily with Pinuccia’s family (and a wedding). We were wondering if Stefania would be able to cope with such a long trip, but it turned out to be irrelevant. We found out that Pinuccia can’t [...]

On Friday I will be going away for three weeks holidays, of which I will say more later in the week. But it means that I am winding things up at the moment – although it is a strange feeling, because there are still two months left in the church year. Coming back in June [...]

With a public holiday yesterday (May 1), and many people taking Monday off to have a super long week end which meant that the Monday cell group was cancelled, I have had a bit of a break from the usual activities. Which was useful, as I had some catching up to do on work accumulated [...]