Bracing for another wave of administration...

Hey there, a brief venice update: 

Today was a splendid Santo Stefano, gloriously sunny and dare I say even warm here, particularly so when you're walking down a calle and there's just a spear of sunlight coming down illuminating all and making you feel blessed...

Santo Stefano is the saint associated with December 26th - in the Italian/catholic calendar there is a saint for (nearly) every day. Today we didn't do much, just (!) visited the Basilica di San Marco, wandered around a bit and saw an organ concert at Chiesa dei Frari, one of my favourite churches in Venice. Some fantastic singing and just a wonderful ambience to be in a centuries-old church listening to a 250 year old pipe organ being played alongside effortless sopranos.

The title of this post relates to tomorrow, when I have to help Ali with stage 1 of the italian administrative circus, signing her up for a cartavenezia (cheap vaporetto tickets) and the most important number in italy - one's own codice fiscale...Ali can let you know how it goes...

Ciao tutti, hope christmas went well!

Paul.