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[Alameda]

please please I beg on my knees

Ciao a tutti, still in Milan (longest layover without actually taking up residence here!) so waving frantically at those of you qui vicino.

Come si dice 'my foot is bright blue because someone stood on it ieri and turned it into a swollen bloody mess that doesn't fit in my boots, so am protecting it with vetwrap' per favore? .

Apparently venti sei/sette gradi in Catania oggi!

Povera Alameda! Can you still walk?

Ti augero Milan!

(at least it is azzurri! forza!)

Ciao! Yes, think of me as an elderly zia who loves to complain about illness and injury! It kills when I walk actually but am just sitting around for now.

What's all this about floods in Liguria, severe maltempo, evacuations? Lost without subtitles!

Heavy rain and flooding . We had strong venti al mare giving aqua alta and it was high. Domani the same. Sorry about your piede hope it gets meglio soon.

How awful Rosa- I hope everything and everyone's okay!

Stasira, mi bambini are going out for Halloween (si, di buon ora!).

DS1 era avirrissi iri a the back of end of his friend's horse, ma allora ha lasciato con la ragazza. Dissi che, comu impressionare la ragazza quannu assomigliraria the back end of a horse? DS3 dissi che nun te tuppara generalementi- imagine saying that about my pfb?! Cosi ora iddu sia un salvataggio.

DD2 sia un footballer, nun avia vidiriu un footballer cu stilettos e leather hot pants ma c'a dire? Sigh.

DS2, 3 e 4 sia Harry, Ron e Hermione!

DD2 is stuck in the house with me and is cross. Ach well.

Povera Rosa, is it tutti mainland Italia? Penso you in Vicenza?

Heh at those costumes ma perché dd2 non going out annunziata?

molto happy ora, quest'una bellissima camera and ho downed una bottiglia di vino rosso and can hardly feel piede at all! Siracusa still full of people eating drinking and laughing in the streets, is bene, like estate :) medal perche non molesto Luigi the room service person invece voglio

Hd to smile at the back end of a horse!!!!! Glad teh rosso ha fatto bene... Noi tutto ok- il maltempo va verso giu oggi. Sta mattina vento forte - sono in Venezia , ache oggi the sirene hanno suonato aqua alta ancora on its way. Verso Liguria mi sa it was worse with flooding .....oggi amici a pranzo Roast beef , yorkshie puddings e un buon valpoliccella!!!!

hope the roast beef keeps the weather out! I am looking at the sea, (at my table for one on my holiday for one) wondering what monsters to eat from it later today

Alameda that sounds absolutely wonderful! Here am I watching the rain! (although thats not half as scary as aqua alta eek)

We are having roast beef too tonight!

DD2 solo avi 14 anni, the others were at parties/ clubbing :)

ah mia figlia #tre ha 13 anni, quite glad she is show jumping in England today and not sulking here with me - she would love this hotel though, it must have been very posh once. I am not too sure about the slightly yellow tap water yet!

Ho bisogno di scrivere il mio libro somewhere today, is 23 gradi no rain forecast so I will find somewhere to sit and build an appetite for lunch.

Oh wow Alameda, how absolutely lovely! And glad the foot is not as bad as yesterday. I saw a pic taken yesterday on the beach nr Palermo, people still in their swimming costumes!
Oggi fa freddo qui, Rosa come va l'acqua?

Lol at Annunziata's ds dressed like mezzo cavallo

I have 14 friends for lunch today (14 between adults and children, plus us), we are doing brunch.

Yes people (well one mad man) in the sea qui (Ortigia) this morning.

Franca can we start a little business, some sort of bespoke holiday thing? And can it be my job to traipse round Sicily for some reason? Annunziata can translate everything into sishhhilianuuu, what do we think?

That'd be great! Taylor made holidays in Sicily, perhaps? For wealthy Londoners? Will they abandon the security of villas with swimming pool in Marbella for something more adventurous and unpredictable? It'd be great!!!!

I was offered a job taking tourists through villages in the Taurus mountains once, no hotels, just exploiting paying for villagers' hospitality but they ended up doing something on small yachts in the med instead.

Think it would be nice to get paid for watching the siciliani, although they spend more time staring at me

SEA URCHINS for lunch

I wish myself all the luck in the world.

Alora, ti mangia the urchins?! Ti piache?

I think I could only possibly translate from an office in Taormina I sneak onto thinksicily.com when I am bored. Wow the houses are beddu!

oh the poor waiter! 'ma signora, bedda signora, ricci di mare e (?) buONISSSSSSimo' as i struggled through mangiato (is that a past tense?) several forkfuls, almost half the portion, non c'e male actually but, as I tried to reassure the poor waiter, is simply uno nuovo gusto. He was extremely anxious that I should like them.

I didn't not like them, to be honest I was more worried about there being onions AND garlic in same dish but am comforted to know this is not a common thing. I always knew it was wrong, surely one or the other - what's your thinking on this?

Need a lie down now to recover from the shock of what I have eaten but look how sunny it is out there!

office in taormina sounds great - ah imagine, but you couldn't manage somewhere a little cheaper to start with?

why did I look at thinksicily.com?

want to do this so so so so much now

Meh, I wouldn't be surprised if there were onions and garlic but I tend to use either or myself :) Brava for trying them though!!!

Sono guiliso di sole, chi'e scuru pioggia! Enjoy!

Gelosia on the view and Taormina but pass on the urchins grazie .... Good the piede is meglio. Qui fuori e 5 gradi ...sta mattina era 17. Vento e pioggia.. Domani devo cercare scarves and hats se continua cosa...ancira roba x dd 1 da perdere.

Che caldo :(

Si, sunni sempri perdriennu tutti guanti, hats, scarves, boh. Una giorna li cusi supra soi manu!

5! Rather you. Just checked meteo locale and è 18 gradi ora, adesso, and I got them to bring me an extra duvet because it seemed cold

I love Holiday For One even though as a chatterbox it is strange not having anyone to talk to, there was an American woman at a table near mine but she was complaining so much about cigarette smoke (prob mostly mine) and the calamari (she can't eat anything that isn't fried, she said?) that I pretended to be tedesco and distanced myself.

Gahh l'mericanu sounds annoying! Glad you are having a good time- parri assai sicilianu?!

Hope everyone's day and lunches went well! Bonasira!!

Lol at pretending to be tedesco!!

Well done for trying the urchins. I like spaghetti with ricci. I also like garlic and cipolla, but I like 99% of food.

Qui fa freddissimo, ho tirato fuori le giacche pesanti.