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Made it to Verona in one piece, although the Italian motorway tollroad is out to get me. I managed to collect a non-functioning ticket on the way in, and then flubbed the payment on the way out (first exit), losing…
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Aqua Alta
Well, the tide came in last night. Not into our apartment, but it missed by less than a centimetre. Shop assistants and restauranteurs had been telling us that last night would be a king tide of some surprising level all…
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Quiet for a moment – a chance to catch up
We’re back at the apartment and it’s only 3:30-ish. Greg came down with quite a debilitating cold yesterday: he soldiered on for a while but was dreadful last night and has spent the day today in bed. Cath, Pam and…
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Too tired to blog
I had grand plans to catch up on the last couple of days of progress, this evening. Not going to make it, though. Maybe tomorrow. Suffice to say that much exploration has happened, not all of it according to plan.…
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Only one week to go to blast-off!
Very excited, but at the same time concerned that we either won’t remember all of the things that need to be sorted-out before we go, or that we will think of something that can’t be squeezed into the available time.…