I didn't have a choice about the Raphaels, sadly. It was a group tour organised by the host and we had a formal dinner afterwards. Anyway it was squeezed in between the end of a meeting and closing time at the Prado, so we would have been chased out anyway. I got the mushrooms and chestnuts on the first evening, after getting to the hotel, and picked up the quinces on the last night.
I need the phone to continue working for at least a bit, because it has a lot of phone numbers on it, and was last backed up a rather long time ago. I will have to change soon regardless, because the local network is moving to 4G exclusively in a year or two. I am thinking of one of the dual-SIM ones from ASUS, which are indeed very handy for people who travel a lot. I hung on to the old one because it has dual-SIM as well, and I was curious to know how long it would keep working (8 years, so far).
My mother is recovering from a knee replacement as well, but hers was straightforward, and she has started cautiously driving again. I hope that yours recovers quickly. I may be able to manage a trip over to the UK in April or May. Some friends of mine have just moved to Paris for the next couple of years, so I will be visiting them anyway. You are welcome to visit in the second half of next year. The house will be a lot more civilised than the flat the last time, I promise, and hopefully it will be a less stressful year than this one has been. I haven't had a holiday since four days in Kyoto in February, and the weekend in Vienna in between Brussels and Madrid last week (I got Sunday and Monday off, since Monday was Austrian National Day).
Brussels is worth a visit, just to walk around and collect madly beautiful Art Nouveau architecture.
I need the phone to continue working for at least a bit, because it has a lot of phone numbers on it, and was last backed up a rather long time ago. I will have to change soon regardless, because the local network is moving to 4G exclusively in a year or two. I am thinking of one of the dual-SIM ones from ASUS, which are indeed very handy for people who travel a lot. I hung on to the old one because it has dual-SIM as well, and I was curious to know how long it would keep working (8 years, so far).
My mother is recovering from a knee replacement as well, but hers was straightforward, and she has started cautiously driving again. I hope that yours recovers quickly. I may be able to manage a trip over to the UK in April or May. Some friends of mine have just moved to Paris for the next couple of years, so I will be visiting them anyway. You are welcome to visit in the second half of next year. The house will be a lot more civilised than the flat the last time, I promise, and hopefully it will be a less stressful year than this one has been. I haven't had a holiday since four days in Kyoto in February, and the weekend in Vienna in between Brussels and Madrid last week (I got Sunday and Monday off, since Monday was Austrian National Day).
Brussels is worth a visit, just to walk around and collect madly beautiful Art Nouveau architecture.
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