Welcome to Episode 177 of my podcasts The view from the crow's nest. It is Tuesday the 15th of December 2020, and today is a very special day because today is my anniversary or our anniversary some honours and I know you may be the eagle eared amongst you may be thinking well hang on a minute Didn't you guys have a 10 year anniversary back in June. And whereas, it's true. Our 10 year anniversary of our wedding was back in June. Today marks 13 years that we met. This is our anniversary of meeting, and it also coincides very Luckily, whoops, sorry, putting water in something to put into so that didn't work. It also coincided very Luckily, with having really good weather. We had about a week of rain, we've had very good weather this year in south of Italy we had weaker rain, and then yesterday or the day before it started getting better. And yeah, Sunny got better. Yesterday was good. Today was really nice. I mean, beautiful blue skies so we actually had. We decided you know I'm gonna take the day off of work, and it was meant to be the morning stroke mid afternoon, it was always going to be the day. And we had breakfast outside, on, on the balcony I was in. In, you know, shirtsleeves having breakfast in the sun, it was just gorgeous. Then we went to my to Jupiter, the village about 20 minute drive where my father in law is from. And the plan was to drop the kids at his and then go for a walk. It's Tibbets is one of the famous things about Jupiter is a UNESCO World Heritage village. Nestled in the mountains like proper in the mountains. And next to it, there's a gorge cut by this river The ragged Hello, and there's this bridge the devil's bridge, and we have been down there a couple of times, once or maybe twice in a car with my parents for years ago. And then we walked down there once like probably about 13 years ago 12 years ago something like that. And so we were going to walk down there for that'd be very nice. And we got there and my father in law was asleep. And he had, he had a bit of an accident and they had been in hospital is all fine but we thought we best let him sleep so we just kind of hung about for. I mean, we've got aunts and cousins and stuff. So we hung about for a couple hours point being, by the time he woke up, we, it was lunchtime and we were really hungry so we made some lunch, and then the kids wanted to sort of watch cartoons were like, you know, you guys can watch cartoons while we're eating, we're going to be outside. So we had lunch the three of us my sister and my father in law out on the, the little sub bar panorama the Vantage one of the vantage points which looks down into the gorge and down to the valley and it's really beautiful and it's really peaceful. I share quite often share photos or videos from that place. There's picnic benches there And generally, only this time of year there's not many people that go for it. There weren't anybody while we were there for lunch. And, again, shirtsleeves sunshine I thought this is nice, good wine that helped. So we did that and then we're like right okay now we're gonna walk down to the gorge so seminar I did, and it's a, You know, it's, it's not easy going on the knees to get down there, and then getting back up is certainly not easy I want any part of your body, but it was a really glorious walk. And we went right down actually went down past the bridge which itself is quite a tall bridge over the gorge and we went down right to the, the actual water, really really nice and then after having that nice lunch nice way to walk out. And then after that we came back got the kids came back home. And then, watched an hour's documentary of the Brian Johnson from AC DC has been doing this series life on the road where he interviews, people from other musicians basically have spent 3040 years on the road, and they're really good I really like them. And so we watch one with Mark Knopfler today, but yeah and then that's it now we're gonna have a nice early night. S
