Two Polish Lowland Sheepdog brothers in Italy - now about to head to France
Saturday, 27 December 2008
Todi's Roman amphitheatre.
Drove into Todi earlier today for a coffee and some grocery shopping. What a glorious day -blue sky and sun but still with the bitter northerly wind. On the walk into town took a side turning and came across the old Roman amphitheatre with houses in an oval pattern where the stands stood and a church built into the centre of the arena. The gate was locked but I'll find out when it's open and take some pictures. Typical of Italy, things that would be tourist magnets anywhere else, are simply ignored and left unsignposted.
2004 - We sell the farm in Scotland and move to the warmth of southern Europe. 2 lively Polish Lowland Sheepdogs - Wilf and Digby - our patient and comical companions. After a year in Provence we head to Italy to restore a hilltop Roman watchtower . Following an unpleasant 'housejacking' in late 2009 we set off for new adventures in South West Franceto get to grips with a large and exceedingly rickety old farmhouse. Empty nesters life after the violence of Italy has a gentler tempo. Digby passed on from piroplasmosis in May 2010. HIs brother, despite being diagnosed with cancer and having become blind ,soldiered on for another two years. Bob and Sophie joined us in 2013. Bob passed on in 2019. Sophie enjoyed the fresh air in Scotland after we returned in late 2022 but ran ahead in the summer of 23. This blog records all those little things about living with dogs that are too unimportant to make it into a diary but which make life, life.
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