After the New Year

After the New Year's partying we did some business and paid some bills....and generally chilled out.

Here I am on the bike I bought for Tony's use in Gozo.

And a ride up to the lower regions of Nadur, rewards you with a pretty good view...and a bit of a sweat.

We then shot off to Sicily (Taormina) for a week of shopping, eating, drinking & walking.

From the Corso Umberto (where we stayed in the Hotel Isobella) we zig-zagged up the roads of the small city for a couple of hours. There is a "Castello" & church that straddle the hill-top above the town, and just below them a restaurant with this glorious view of Mt. Etna.

A few glasses of Prosecco & some hand-made pasta, watching the white puffs venting above the snows of the distant volcano, and we were ready to go down.


600 sloping steps and twenty minutes later, we were back to our start point!





But we enjoyed all the exercise...and felt that we deserved our over-indulgences in the restaurants.

I think that this means that I am "bristling".

But I wasn't. Jean enjoyed the shopping (picking up some boots, a coat & some fancy tights for New York).

I was seduced in to buying 10 pairs of long socks!