Today was a day off in Italy. We had originally planned to move this weekend but since there’s still some paperwork hanging we will likely need to wait until January. For this reason we had no real plans for the weekend. Last night we were checking hotels in the alps on Slovenian, Austrian and Italian sides but could not make up our mind. Therefor this morning we basically started driving in direction of Tarvisio with no real target than hopefully some snow and sledding, maybe premier on skies for the kids, maybe a Christmas market. When we arrived in Tarvisio it was raining so we started driving towards Premollo, that was so foggy and empty that we did not even want to exit the car. At this point of time the kids had fallen asleep, and were ready for a serious quarrel on who’s fault it was that we did not have a hotel yet, that no one had checked the forecast and that this was in general a very poorly planned excursion.

Standing between driving back to Trieste or stopping for lunch in Tarvisio to calm down and realign options we decided for the latter... luckily... now after a fantastic meal, some sledding in Tarvisio, an evening tour at a fantastically winter lit Kraniska gora; we ended up in an apartment hotel larger than our current apartment with autonomous heating. The kids have been playing, now they sleep and the rain has turned to big white flakes falling outside the window, with some continued luck we will ski tomorrow!

I love how good the children are nowadays at helping out at home, and the passion they have for creating, cooking, baking, drawing and constructing things. It makes life so much easier when I can give them a project and know they will be busy with that for the next hour. Yesterday it was constructing and decorating a gingerbread house. We were lazy and bought the Build it yourself pack from IKEA.

My phone died after a brutal milk on the table accident. Since when are phones so fragile that they do not even survive touching a bit of milk from a poured out glass??? I remember my old Nokia that survived both a swim in the sea as well as in the washing machine. It would probably work still if it had not been lost after many moves. Eventually it was exchanged for a younger model somewhere around 2010.

Today we decided to take a walk at the hills over the sea of Strugnano. Warm fall day, and beautiful views mixed of open blue seas, olive and khaki trees. The kids have really gotten so good at walking long distances during this fall. I start to dream of mountain hiking and camping with them already next summer. Let's see if we feel ready by then.