Arrivederci

Thank you to everyone for your lovely comments on my posts and photographs from Italy.  It was a wonderful holiday and nice to be able to share a little of it with you. 
Here's an "arty" shot that I took from my laying on the beach in the sun position on Capri -

I was fairly exhausted when we got back, the heat plus the excursions was rather too much but both were also wonderful!  I am now having enforced rest as I managed to fall down the stairs this afternoon and, after three hours in A&E now have a splint on my knee and my very first zimmer frame as I'm not allowed to put any weight on my leg!  There's nothing broken according to the x-ray but a lot of swelling and a lot of pain so it's R&R and then back to the hospital on Tuesday for a scan!  I sure know how to get out of doing the holiday washing and ironing and I'll be able to catch up with the blog posts I've missed while away. :)
Saz and I did a little evaluation of our holiday on the way back and have decided that we love Italy and were impressed with our tour company but wouldn't return to the hotel we stayed in.  We'd love to return to the Campania region and spend more time, maybe at a cooler time of year.  I have quite a lot of quilt inspiration and Saz is very keen to get stitiching.  She used the lovely bag she made all week while we were out and about, it's covered in the dust of Pompeii and Vesuvius, I wonder whether she'll want to wash it.

Vesuvius has got to feature in a quilt, it dominates the whole place, you can see it from wherever you are and it is both benevolent and malevolent, a sleeping dragon.
A lot of the ceramic plaques that are made in the area would translate well into a stained glass window style quilt panel -

Sadly I didn't find a shop selling Aurifil thread and we didn't buy any fabric but there's always next time.  It's time for arrivederci, thank you for joining our trip

OMG my grandson's cute!