On 7 May 2007 17:32:30 -0700, Bronwyn >
magnanimously proffered:

>Hi folks,
>Just returned from four weeks in Italy travelling around with husband,
>Franklin. The middle two weeks we rented two villas - one in Umbria
>about 10 miles out of Assisi in the hills, and one in Tuscany between
>Lucca and Florence.

My wife and I planned to take a similar trip (also taking in Venice
and Rome), and renting a villa near enough to Florence that we could
spend a week to ten days enjoying Florence's art & culinary treasures.

Unfortunately, our septic system decided to choose that time to have a
nervous breakdown and we ended up spending our holiday money on
engineer's reports, council permits and the installation of an
expensive, new system that recycles wastewater so we can use it to
irrigate our trees. We called our new system, Florence, and when asked
about our holiday we tell people that we decided to sit in deck chairs
and look at the new septic tank instead.

Our time will come, however. And when it does, I've already told the
travel broker we're using that while my wife travels with all of her
senses, I travel with my appetite. I cannot wait to eat my way around
Italy.



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