😲 Wow! It’s Thursday already. We’ve been back a week…a busy week.
Exploring the possibilities of a Wise account. It appears, to me, to be very much modern day banking.
🥱 Tired, oh so tired. The last few weeks traveling and a busy return have caught up with me.
Today I voted for the first time as newly minted US Citizen. It feels good to finally have a say in the country where I have lived for the last fifteen years. Feeling empowered. 🇺🇸
Falling Back
Sunday, November 6, 2022
While we were in Europe I appreciated that Sunday morning on October 29th when the clocks went back, and Daylight Savings Time in Europe (or British Summer Time as we referred to it in the UK) dropped away with the arrival of autumn. We had just completed a long drive into the foothills of the Italian Alps at the start of an Italian holiday weekend. This was something that I was not aware of at the time, and I had assumed that the roads were always this busy, and that the Italians enjoyed racing each other to see who could be the first to Lake Como.
Phew 😮💨, it’s humid today.
The shadowed outlines of the Maui landscape emerge in the pre-dawn light, as a jet lagged me drinks his early morning coffee on my first morning back home for many weeks. ☕️
🏡 Home.
Looking out of my hotel window as flocks of birds fly by in the dawn light.
🏝 Getting ready to leave for the final part of the journey home.
🛫 Looking out over Heathrow on this sunny morning as we wait to board.
A moody, wet Lake Como, with clouds hugging the mountains, as we set off.
I have found time before leaving to quickly edit my monthly newsletter. Hopefully not too many typos and the English is coherent. It will be sent out while we are driving to Milan’s Linate Airport. If you are interested in subscribing, head over here. 📰
October 2022 newsletter letter
Monday, October 31, 2022
October 2022 Hello and welcome to my October 2022 newsletter. I am writing this at the end of a long visit to Europe. I’ll be starting my journey home as this newsletter goes out. Most of the posts that I have shared here come from the journey of the last six weeks. My wife and I left Maui in the closing days of September and now November is just beginning. As I was putting together the newsletter, even finding time on this trip to do that has been a challenge, looking back through my blog I was amazed at the ground that we have covered, both literally and figuratively.
🛄 Starting the long journey home today.
This morning’s view at Lake Como.
🕑 I’m appreciating the clocks going back last night. The extra hour came at just the right time.
🧖♂ Resting after a sauna and jacuzzi. We had a long day’s drive and I needed a break.
😮💨 Exhausted after a day of driving. Resting before heading out to eat.
Two men in Siena.
I’m trying to learn a little more from @maique’s examples.
