We are so thankful to be on the right side of the Channel for Easter and not stuck at Stanstill airport (or worse…).

This is the view of the city of the Renaissance from Poggio Gherardo yesterday.

The place was Janet Ross’s (Tuscany’s ‘queen bee’) home until 1927 when she bequeathed it to another travel author Lina Waterfield.

if these names mean nothing to you then do read my post at https://wp.me/p4KnVs-yE

Incidentally, from the ‘wrong’ side of the channel.we received this comment from an old university friend there:

‘We are positively luxuriating in the non- existent trains, gridlocked roads, salad-free supermarkets, ordure-infested rivers and beaches. But we have blue passports. If only we could use them…😊😊”