We have arrived now, a few hours ago. Despite Daniele’s tooth coming out two hours before we left home, the children travelled quite well, and both slept most of the time. Which is more than I can say for the parents! So apart from the jetlag, Pinuccia and I arrived quite tired; I have already […]

Only another 7 hours until we leave the house now. Then there will be 26 hours in planes and stopovers, 30 hours from door to door. Having an evening flight makes things a bit more relaxed, as we can do the last bit of packing today, and there are also a few chores to do […]

Yesterday was a public holiday (just as in Australia), and we took the opportunity to go to Bologna (240 km south of here) for the annual meeting with the other seven churches of an association that the church at Trento belongs to. There were about 40 from the church present, which is the most we […]

We came back this afternoon from our week at the ECM biennial conference in Spain. Every conference lately for me has been different, going by myself six years ago, on my honeymoon four years ago, then with a six month old baby, and this time with two small children. So this time there were less […]

My half holidays have ended now, as Pinuccia’s parents went back to Sicily on Wednesday morning. But tomorrow there will be another half holiday, as we will all be going to Spain for a week for the biennial conference of the mission we work for (European Christian Mission). So it is really work, and there […]

Yesterday the families of two of the members of the Youth Group went to Mantova (about an hour south of here) for the opening of the new meeting place of a church there, so there was no meeting in the afternoon. We took this rare opportunity of a free Saturday to visit a set of […]

I’m back at home now, after three days of long, but worthwhile, meetings at Madrid. “Necessity is the mother of invention” the saying goes, and Pinuccia discovered that she could indeed take the two children down and up the stairs by herself, which she had never done before and didn’t think was able to do. […]

We finally arrived this morning just before 6.30am - later than I was expecting (because the children required more stops than I had counted on), but at least it was less than a day travelling, even if only just. This time it was my turn to hit the snow whilst driving, just as we arrived […]

Our time in Sicily has almost come to an end now, and today will be spent packing and trying to squeeze everything into the car. It was full on the way down, and in the last three weeks we have accumulated more things (a few things that we brought, a few gifts from relatives from […]

We are about half way through our time in Sicily, and with visits to family, friends and church (plus the usual end of year activities) we have had just two free nights so far, and maybe just one more for the rest of our stay. So in that respect it is not too much different […]