On May 8, 2:10 pm, bob > wrote:
[snip]
> 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.
>
> --
>
> una cerveza mas por favor

What a sad tale! My language would not have been quite so mild re the
septic debacle. However, it's probably a while back and you can
almost see the funny side now.
Have fun planning your trip to Italy, we kept the calouries at bay by
walking everywhere, eating lightly for breakfast and lunch, enjoying
the divine icecreams and a great dinner in the evening with a bottle
of red (avoiding the whites generally speaking).
Cheers
Bron