What are your future travel plans?

I can tell you what my immediate future plans are.

Rewind one day. We arrived in Bergamo (from Ireland) last night and landed in the early stages of a storm. Lucky our flight wasn’t delayed landing, as many were, because of the storm.

We were flying with Ryanair and, well, I’m sure the pilot said “Feck it, we’ll be grand” and he kept on going!

We landed fine!

Coming from Ireland, the first thing you notice when you step off the plane is the heat. Even during an Irish heatwave, the warmth from the sun is so different from the Mediterranean sun. (Same sun, yes, but you know what I mean)

Today, we are in the midst of the storm: thunder, lightening, and heavy rain. As we boarded our plane in Ireland, it was raining.

Am I annoyed? Not at all, because from experience I know that it won’t last longer than a few hours — at home it rains for days or weeks at a time.

It’s warm rain here. It’s refreshing because the climate is so hot. It’s forecast to end in less than an hour, and I hope it will take with it some of the dead heat.

Tomorrow we travel to Lake Como and we’ll stay there for five nights. I think it will be a little cooler there.

We love some heat and sunshine, but our Irish bodies are not equipped to cope with too much of it. It takes longer than a few days to become climatised.

Next week we’ll be back in Ireland and we plan to spend a few days in Kerry.

After that, we’ll travel to Westport for a family camping trip; weather permitting.

Our final trip for this summer will be a few days in London.

Then it will be back to school and work and looking forward to autumn — my favourite month!

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Thank you for reading.

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