Bored of report writing, I've taken 10 minutes out to snap part of the vista from my office at Tuscan Towers. I haven't compressed the image as much as I normally do (i.e. be patient with the download for slower connections), as I wanted to show, amongst other things, the twin towers of Vinci (one grey and one white) in the far distance, which is where I go to get my basic quaffing red (and very nice it is, too). Florence is dead ahead in the pic, about 20 miles away. Hot, humid, and tourist infested in this peak Italian holiday week, even the threat of red-hot needles dug into my eyes wouldn't take me there before mid-September at the very earliest. However, I might be persuaded to turn up there if I heard Monica was in town. I'd definitely like to reacquaint myself with that most impressive young lady. If I can paraphrase the late, now lamented Benny Hill: Tuscan Tony likes 'em big.
Update: hell's teeth! The twin towers of Vinci weren't that clear, so here's an enlargement (they're to the right of the furthest right leaf of the almond tree. Hope that helps!):
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I looked for more than 2 minutes, and still couldn't find the twin towers... guess one really has to know where to look (not just what to look for. Or are my eyes not sharp enough? ;-))
Fine post Tony...Good on yer!
Today Mrs S and I were in Waitrose, and I saw this and thought of you!
Toodle-pip!
http://www.mendocinowineco.com/2003-tuskn-red--750ml.htm
-eve- - I've done an update for you - they were a bit tricky to spot in the first pic!
scrobs - the swine! I'll sue their raggedy bottoms for passing off! How's the war wound?
Eve
You must understand, Tony is 43 years old and a drunkard , he sees things differently to the rest of us. Those towers are probably miles away but he imagines that he can see them , they are real to him.
As a future Dr you will no doubt study the cruel effects that age and alcohol abuse can have on some people.
He frequently telephones me in the middle of the night in a confused state. Its tragic really.
Hitch:
1. 42, so stop over-inflating me, next thing I know I'll be nearly as venerably ancient as you by your reckoning!
2. The midnight caller is probably one of those impersonator-chappies, i.e. have you grilled that top Eiro-Kentish blogger, the inimitable Mr O'Blene as to his movements at the time of the abusive call?!?!??
You'll always know it's me on the hoot 'n holler, Mr H - first off, the phone charges will be reversed. In any case, I'd only midnight call someone that falls into all of the following 3 categories:
1. female
2. of asian extraction
3. very, very large breasts, a minimum of, oh, I don't know, say an E80 bra.
I wonder if -eve- knows of anyone that fits that description?
You, sir, Mr Hitch, sir, meet only requirement #3 and therefore do not make the cut.
Steady TT, you'll hurt his feeling.
I thought I had failing eyesight so crept quietly away earlier..thank you for the update. What a fabulous view.
Sorry even the update doesn't help the old lady, but the nearby view is pretty stunning so I enjoyed that. There is no place like Italy.
Thank you for the update, Tuscan Tony. Yes, I DO see them now (after Hitch told me to look miles away ... :-))
Awww... my sis wears E80, but my size is only C75 (although with a little stretch of the imagination, I might be able to pass off as D80). Would that do...? :-)
Eve, my pleasure.
You'd be made to feel very very welcome, more so than any E80, my #3 spec is the least serious of them all (still a little bit serious, of course, but...!!!
lilith, I spend a great deal of time via email letting The Hitch's tyres down, he'd explode of his own accord otherwise as he well knows!
jmb, its late here, 1.15am now, will try a better pic update for you tomorrow first thing I promise. Welsome to the blog, by the way!
Thanks for coming to visit me TT. I know Tuscany is a long way from Vancouver, but I've been 10 times to Italy from here. Vale la pena. Then so is Vancouver.
regards
jmb
jmb, your timing is impeccable, I was working on, and have now done, a second enlargement of the towers just for you!
Pleasure, will revisit to find out what's happening over there. We have a family friend who is a garlic farmer on Vancouver Island.
TT, this morning the Hitch has gone. I told you you'd upset him ;-O
Thank you, that is much better, although I can just see the darker tower. The old lady has cataracts you know.
I've done eleven posts about Italy, where I first went on my honeymoon 46 years ago. I recently did a six part story about a trip we did in 1984 for my daughter's graduation from high school. She came back to Vancouver and studied Italian as well as French, although she has a PhD in French. She married an Italian from Biella and is now very fluent, even though they live in the States.
I've been to Italy three times to go to language school and do a homestay with a family. The first time was in Florence, which you can see from your window. One day I will post about it.
The red tile roofs of Italy. They remind me of Australia although the greenery is a bit different.
regards
jmb
Lilith, although as we all know he's a gentle, sensitive plant, I suspect that his diappearance is more to do with dirty work at the crossroads than sharrp words from me! All we can hope for is that the Portuguese police haven't been engaged to find him - if so, its "goodnight Vienna".
jmb, pleased to have helped. If you return to Italy, and haven't been there before, do try Bologna, one of the most surprising cities on this peninsula.
What a lovely sight - no, not you Eve, the view. Brings back happy memories. TT, I chanced to call my chum in POM on the electric telephone - actually Skype (which Allah preserve), and he tells me that the infant mortality amongst the "Grice", has enforced a longer stay in Italy this summer. Mrs Chum (who is in possession of a cushion with the motto "We interrupt this marriage to bring you the shooting season") was apparently singularly unsympathetic. Who'd have thunk it?!
I want one of those cushions, 45govt, and I want it now!
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