The Last Gothic Cathedral – #ThursdayDoors

Posted on August 1, 2024 by Gloria

I had been looking forward to many things about our holiday in Italy and one of them was collecting some doors pictures. I was not disappointed!

I was in awe at the amount of churches and cathedrals and little chapels in Como. The cathedral in the photos below is one of the most important buildings in the region of Como, Lombardy, Italy. It is the seat of the Bishop of Como and it is dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta – Duomo di Como

(The last gothic cathedral built in Italy)

More from Italy next week!

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In my Next Life

Posted on July 26, 2024 by Gloria

If you won two free plane tickets, where would you go?

If reincarnation is real, I’d like to be born in Italy, please!🙏

The first time I went to Italy was seventeen years ago. We went to a friend’s wedding in Lake Garda and it was the most beautiful place I’d ever been to.

We went on a day trip to Venice and lo and behold, Stephen proposed to me! He went down on one knee in the gondola and presented me with a beautiful ring!

I loved Italy so much and we always wanted to return.

And here we are as I write this; in Lake Como having a wonderful holiday with our 13-year-old daughter Lucy and Bella, my 13-year-old granddaughter.

Bella comes everywhere with us because she and Lucy are very close!

So, if I won two free plane tickets to anywhere in the world, it would be Italy. I’d like to go to Rome and Naples.

Thank you for reading today!

Do you read fiction?

Would you like a peek inside the pages of Secrets in the Babby House? You never know, it might just be your cup of tea!

Set in a gossipy small town in Ireland at a time when marriage is for keeps and sexuality is repressed, Secrets in the Babby House is a family saga over three decades that starts in 1956. It is a story of love, deception, and stolen diaries filled with sins and secrets.

Also available on Rakuten Kobo book.

MORE ABOUT ME, MY BOOKS AND MY CHARACTERS IN THIS YOUTUBE VIDEO!