I am so incredibly proud of our daughter: for all the anxiety and nerves prior to the flight, she seemed to feel completely at home in Italy almost from the first day, certainly the second. Nowhere where we ate questioned her wish for plain pasta - even if I wish we could have got some more protein into her! I was recording 15,000 - 25,000 steps a day here, so her little legs have kept up so well and she has been incredibly good company. Yes, once or twice, we had minor meltdowns; yes, our days were shorter than otherwise; yes, there were some things like the Vatican that we thought would be too overwhelming. But she has been interested and engaged and happy throughout... and now is slightly annoyed at my telling her how proud I am of her.
Tag: Rome
Top Ten Tuesday: Bookshops in Rome I Am Excited For
Benvenuti a The Book Lovers' Sanctuary, questa settimana aggiorno il blog da Roma! Well, technically I am not in Rome yet: I fly out tomorrow and am scheduling this to post on Tuesday! I am currently experiencing that Christmas Eve feeling: I think everything is ready, I am looking forward to tomorrow, I am anticipating that something will have been forgotten! Tickets printed? Check. Currency? Check. New clothes? Check, and it will be a change to wear clothes that fit - apparently I am a 28 inch waist now, who knew? - and oh my god my first pair of loafers! So Italian. So freaking comfortable! So these are the ten bookshops I might be most interested in seeing... such a shame that we only have 6 days there! And whilst I may have taught myself some Italian - enough to have a good go at a GCSE exam and sort of get the gist of an Italian newspaper - I have no real concept of Geography or where these might be in relation to each other!
Rome 2023
Apologies for the non-bookish content, but I thought I'd record a few details about my trip to Rome with an autistic ten year old daughter! Our flight was on Friday and we had spent a week or two prior to that on very real tenterhooks! This was her first time abroad, her first time flying,… Continue reading Rome 2023
Anthony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare
Absolutely sublime play. Re-reading it after many many years and still bowled over. A GCSE set text; an integral part of Degree level "tragedy" unit (other people got to play with dead bodies, I learned how to be miserable: thanks Cambridge!!); and a vital part of my make up! As I write, please near in… Continue reading Anthony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare




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