Internet Trouble

Painting is called ‘Market Day’

You know… It’s really hard to run a blog without reliable internet coverage. It is totally frustrating when you have something to say and just can’t say it because the button you can normally just click on to be in contact with the rest of the world is simply there for decoration, impotent, useless. We are not sure if our internet problems come from the satellite or the company we are registered with… I am beginning to believe it is definitely the company – Skymesh. I cancelled our membership with them as our contract had finished anyway, they wouldn’t release us till the end of the month – yesterday, even though we have been without any internet for nearly a month. They wouldn’t send us their ‘letter of release’ and without this we are unable to change companies, kind of like being held hostage.
This morning however, with an expired internet service and with the heavy rain and wind of yesterday and last night (the excuse for our satellite not to work since November last year) we suddenly have a perfectly working internet – go figure?

Enough of my complaining. I wanted to share with you my next adventure…
In a few sleeps my sister Jenni and I are off on an over seas holiday. Late last year I won some art awards and my prize money is being put to good use. We are going to experience 8 fantastic days in Paris – I can’t wait to see all of the art works, then we are off to Rome for a quick visit (sculptures, sculptures) followed by a further week in Barcelona- those Gaudi Buildings OOoohh. I am taking not only my camera but pencils and paints, I hope I dont get a cse of the procrastinations while I am there and do at least a couple of drawings.

My sister then flies home and I hop on a train and spend a couple of days in a little town in Southern France called Carcassonne. It is a walled medieval town complete with turrets and drawbridges. My hotel is inside the walls and from the phots i’ve seen on Google Earth it will be one of the most surreal places I could visit in my whole lifew – there may even be a novel in there – what do you think? After my time there I hop on to another train and head to Geneva in Switzerland where I will stay a week with my friend Shauna. She is planning a couple of days off and we will go to Zermatt. Zermatt sits on the Matterhorn and we will go to visit an ice Palace… the temperature is about -16C (that’s minus sixteen) so a big change from our 36C hot and wet with the humidity of 90% +. Paris has been sitting on 3-6C and snowing, Barcelona about 13C, i’ve packed my winter woolies… yes… I’ve packed.

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