Italian Holiday - the start

[london1952]

What's that bright thing outside ? ...my goodness it's the sun !! I've been very brave and watered the garden and all the pots as everything was so dry, but with so much frost recently it didn't seem a good idea before now........ quite a few of the bulbs in the pots seem a bit slow or stunted, I'm sure it's a mix of cold and dry, so there, I've done it !

It's the mildest day since we returned from Italy last Tuesday...... I'm VERY behind (as usual) posting anything about the wonderful week we had.

Our week in Le Marche started off with rain (heavy), fog (thick) and snow (picturesque!). In fact without the sat-nav I doubt we would have found the hotel we were staying at near Urbino.  The view from our room window when we arrived was.....

....luckily the next morning we could see what was really there.....

We ate dinner in the restaurant attached to the hotel that evening and saw snow falling outside.  We also spotted something "unusual" on the menu....

We settled instead for a beer (an rare shot of london1967 with alcohol!) and a pizza........





sadly, no room in the suitcase for either of these lovelies !




which were about 5' tall !