
Not content with having only just recently booked a week in Dubrovnik, Croatia, the girlfriend and I already have another one booked in. This one’s with my family, at a villa in Tuscany for a week in September.
My mum’s been rabbiting on about doing a “family holiday” for a while now, as both my sister and I have left home and we don’t really do much as a foursome any more. The occasions when all four of us are in the same place at the same time are becoming ever less frequent, and the last time all four of us went on holiday was at Christmas 2004, when they came to the town in Germany where I lived.
Being my mum, she wanted everything sorted as early as possible, and after umpteen phone calls to me to check every last detail, she booked it over the weekend. I sort of agreed blindly, but today she sent me a link to the villa we’ll be staying in, which looks very nice indeed.
The idea of a week with my parents is a touch unnerving, but at least we’ll have two cars, so the girlfriend and I (and maybe my sister) can head off to do our own thing on a few days. I really want to take the girlfriend to Florence, just over an hour away, because it’s gorgeous and also because I really want to see Michelangelo’s David again. It’s the only piece of art which I’ve really been absolutely stunned by, and it’s worth the drive.
