Today was a big day. We got to meet the lawnmower, which obviously isn’t nearly as interesting as eating ivy out of the flower beds. “I hate the stuff anyway,” was my hubby’s response. Can’t be good news for the ivy….we also like eating grass clippings, bark, dirt, moss and just about anything else we […]

So we’re still feeling some of that “wow, we have a puppy” shock from time to time but it’s getting a lot less. We are crating Ayla at night so we can all get some sleep and we had a 2:30am wake up call this morning which wasn’t exactly fun…especially when we got out there […]

Well we finally got to bring her home today. We took a trip up to the breeders yesterday evening so we could talk about the paperwork and all that. It was actually a rather wasted trip ’cause there wasn’t all that much to discuss but we got to see the puppies and man did they […]

<We spent the last two days discovering two of the climbing areas close to Locarno. Yesterday we headed out to Ponte Brolla, about 6km away from our apartment. Our Tom Tom had a little trouble finding the area so we spent the better part of an hour driving through the backcountry. The Defender handled well, […]

With the drive behind us, the car parked and our apartment checked into it was time to get settled in, it is now time to seek the other thing we hoped to find here in Locarno: PASTA. We are staying at the Residenza Motta in the heart of the old town of Locarno and the […]