Will a seascape do??

Last August we managed to get away for a few days - the main part of our holiday was in Slovenia, calling in to Trieste on the way home for a couple of nights - we had boooked in a hotel Robert had stayed in a couple of times for work and although he told me it was fine he kept sort of trying to under play the whole thing - it's true, the drive into the hotel isn't the best - it's about 3 km outside the city on a really really busy road - it was hot (very), the roads were pretty crowded and we were there over the busiest bank holiday in the Italian year - Ferragagosto - you can bar humbug me now - Italians love this holiday but I don't, I seriously don't - the roads are terrible (one year it took me 2.5 hours to drive 6 miles at 3 o'clock in the morning!) , don't even think about making onto a beach - if you do, you will get inundated with water bombs, you can't get a drink at the bar (on the beach) because of the crowds and, by the time the middle of August comes round I have usually had it with the summer - I want a jumper, jeans and normal service to resume (even now, trying to get anything done in Italy in August is a trial.....) - anyway, last year, on August 14th we pulled into the hotel drive - for those 2 days we had our own private terrace, with our own private cormorants, we walked to the same restauarnt on both evenings and while Italy was heaving with all those tourists we enjoyed this....... it was perfect (and the photos do not do it justice - but just looking at them makes me feel better......).

Day 1......

......of no biscuits, bread or chocolate. We're not into Lent yet but I'm starting early - and I'm putting it down pen on paper - of sorts - so that I can remind myself of this 'promise' every time I come onto the blog to catch up with my blogging buddies (daily). I am not huge, I am not really even big but I feel uncomfortable and, over the last few years I've seen that it gets harder and harder to shift those unwnated extra pounds - but, experience has shown me that if I cut out biscuits and bread (and chocolate but really there is never any chocolate in the house anyway) I can "de-bloat" - but why? well, we have finally bought tickets to go to Canada in the summer - for Robert his first trip back in 16 years and for me, my first trip out of Europe and my first to see his family and friends - and yes, my ID card says I am 45 years old but really I am still 15 - we will be seeing/I will be meeting people I have never seen and, call me pathetic, but I want to look and feel as good as I possibly can - so hopefully this is the nudge I need to leave all the biscuits and bread just where it is. Wish me luck........