Tuscany ‘25

Vicky and Simon have just returned from a fantastic trip to Tuscany, Italy.

We flew into Pisa, spent some time in Lucca, Florence, Trasimeno lake, Cortona, Monte San Savino, San Gimignano, Gambassi Terme and Pisa once again.

The entire trip was filled with laughter and great times. The cocktails, beer and of course wine was all free flowing and delightful – including this cheeky glass of wine in one of the many “wine holes” we located in the beautiful city of Florence….

We sadly didn’t’t manage to find an average meal anywhere – every single one was outstanding.

Massive thanks to Dafit and Jilly for joining us and making the memories – Tuscany, we will never forget your beauty, your terrific food, incredible wines (and bonus cocktails) and of course the great laughs we enjoyed all the way through.

We hope to see you again soon 🙂

Happy Mothers Day

We wish all mothers a terrific day today and hope that you are able to spend it enjoying those that you have brought into the world and/or helped manage their time on the world, even if that is just a telephone call to connect. You are all incredible people with immense strength and determination to make us all better, more rounded and focused people, for which we are truly thankful. Without you, we would not be and it is highly likely that we don’t acknowledge any of this nearly enough.

He is on his way home….

9 days so far, number 10 tomorrow when he finally gets back.

He left Cape Town almost two hours ago and has a further 10 hours before he is getting off the plane in Frankfurt, 2 hours later he will be heading over to Birmingham International. It is a LONG way – 6100 miles according to Apple….

We have had more comms from the AirTag we placed in his bag than we have him, so we hope that he has had a terrific time and taken in all of the experience in full.

We are clearly hoping that we hear a LOT more about that experience than we do the lack of internet while he has been away…..

Long journey but a good first day it seems

Elliot arrived in Cape Town, 24 hours after leaving the house. They are only 1 hour ahead of us in the UK, so the big flight was essentially through the night (almost 11 hours).

Rather frustratingly, he was awarded a centre seat with little legroom so apparently did not get a great deal of sleep. That and the fact that they went straight into a South African rugby training session was a winner 🙂

Anyway, says he has had a great first day and managed to get a little sunburn on his neck – dipstick