Back from our Hols

Phew, Bank holiday MOnday and we are back from opur holidays. Have just spent a week with Brian Smith's "Art Course Abroad". SAndra has gone for the past 3 years to one of his 'Holiday' courses - I go as a non Painter and generally have a good time. THis year we went to Umbria in the middle of Italy. Thirteen in all, 9 Painters and 4 non. We hired 3 vehicles for the transport - and then unfortunately missed the turn off from the motorway from the airport which meant that we had a convoy of the 3 cars tring to keep together as we travelled through the centre of Rome Not easy!! Anyway, we eventually made it to our destination and had a brilliant week. The sun shone, the Painters painted and we non painters saw the sights and walked around the countryside.

Had a little problem getting back. It took longer than we thought to get to the airport and then longer than anticipated to return the hire cars. Normally that wouldn't have been a problem, but this particular day there was an Italian Air Traffickers strike for 4 hours such that our flight was called forward 30 mins (to beat the 'window') and we arrived just 5 mins after they closed the check-in gate! This was at 11:10 in the morning. We eventually got a flight at 2015 hrs..... It was a long day at the airport!!

Still never mind, eventually got home at around 11pm and with a day off the next day we seem to be fine.