It's been a few days since Pompei. The boys arrived safely and we had a couple of days in Rome (Coliseum, Vaticano, Navona and others) - lots of introductions for them into Italian food and drink. Went with RyanAir up to Milano - you must use RyanAir people. I have never caught a flight, landed, collected baggage and walked out of the airport 10 minutes before the plane was due to land!
Hectic couple of days here with Romanian relatives - wonderful people and had a great time expostulating on my best Italian - truly it is 90% hand gestures and the right attitude in the voice - also possibly helped along by copious Limoncello with Gigel!
Wish we had flown RyanAir to Geneva where we caught our shuttle to here in Chamonix. Flew British Airways and it was not good to the least - late, missed connections, lost bookings, etc. Anyway - long story - we're here now and boarding and skiing and it's wonderful.
Mont Blanc view from apartment window! As a school kid and uni student reading so much about climbing here, especially winter ascents in the Grandes Jorasses, I am humbled to be here sitting and wondering how Chris Bonington and friends climbed here with so little technical winter equipment compared to what's available today. I am in further awe if that's possible of what those guys did. It's -19 degrees here after all.
Ben did really well in school results - 89.75 ATAR - which I'm informed is pretty good! Writing this using my iPhone at the local McDonalds sipping reasonable Espresso using free wifi for the Internet connection. What a connected world we live in - I can hear American, English, French, Russian, and Italian accents without even really trying. Can you guess what the majority are looking at on their various devices? Correct - FaceBook! Sitting in a beautiful place with magnificent views and other people to talk to and talking to people on the other side of the world!
Cheers all.
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89.75 is pretty good! I saw that Ben was listed on the honour roll for Winmalee as being above 90 in PDHPE.
Heathrow is closed today Sunday so you may not get away as expected. Mum says you are going to XXX Square (Times?) for xmas. Should be interesting at any temperature.
Hi... been thinking of you with all that snow!!!! Have had a couple of emails from Cosmin but he didn't mention you guys...did you see him? At home sick with Central heating ON! Bloody freezing here so we can empathise.
Well done Ben... I also saw his name in SMH Gord brought it home from work. Mary's Michael did exceptionally well and got 94.something. He wants to do art/history teaching and already had early entry into Catholic Uni which I think is where he wants to go.
Looking forward to Christmas break.
oh that last comment was from me! Sonia!
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