Finally woke up to snow this morning! Not quite enough to make a snowball, but snow nevertheless. Now that I have achieved the only thing on my bucket list, I guess I’ll need a new purpose in life 🙂 Not much has been happening travel wise – but last weekend we had the Escalade festival which celebrates the Swiss fighting off their French attackers in 1602. This is a huge event in Geneva and it seemed the whole town turned out for it. They have a ‘secret passage’ which they open up once a year and naturally we made a beeline for it. I have to say I expected a bit more out of a secret passage, though it was interesting to walk in the footsteps of those who have gone before us over 400 years ago.

Our big adventure starts next week  – we’re off to Florence for xmas and new year’s so there will be more frequent blog updates over the next six weeks. What comes after that has changed many times, but we should have some news soon… Meanwhile, my capacity for alcohol consumption has increased dramatically. I’ll shortly be able to drink my own body weight in an evening. Oh, by the way I’m getting a gym membership when I get back to Australia in Feb!