Pescara

Oh, hi Blog! Fancy seeing you here.

I've avoided you recently, for lack of anything nice to say. It's just started getting to me how much I miss particular people. It's interesting what time and distance can do to a person. I loev it here, I really do, perhaps if they joined me, then I'd be ok.

This has been the best trip of my life, my whole family has gotten on pretty fantastically despite being so close it can be hard to escape. The family we're staying with have gone out of their way for us, helping my dad and brother go skiing without it costing an arm and a leg. We're taken shopping, we eat feasts of meals twice a day, foce fed food we can't possibly fit in our tummy's. We're invited to houses with people mum met more than 30 years ago and we all joke and laugh and have the grandest time, just as you'd imagine an Italian family dinner would be. Even with the language barrier for dad and Tom, they still manage to communicate, through mum, through me, through the Italians that can speak English and hand signs and slow talking. It's beyond comprehension, beyond what I can explain only with words. It's amazing, it's a dream, it's a scene from a film, it's my world, it's my life.

I am ever so greatful. I am not taking this for granted.

<3 to your mother.