The cigale

Do you necessarily have to love the Cigales when you live in the south of Europe?! The French adores them, and loves to put the replicas of their beloved insects on their walls, terraces, doors and so on... Even better if they have a little battery driven speaker to make the same noise as the real ones! Personally I don't see the fascination and when the incredibly loud noise stops it feels like heaven - divine silence!
Unfortunately I have a big tree just outside my bedroom window that allows the little devils to be even closer to myself....

VIVA L' ITALIA !

After having put the Italian flag up on the balcony yesterday (tacky yes! but living abroad we love our country even more), we went to Milan only too see the match among our friends. I think we would have felt slightly outnumbered if we'd remained here... It was amazing to see Milan explode with joy, waving thousands of flags and to see the Italians for once feeling proud to be Italians.

solved the problem!

Now I've seemed to solve the problem with uploading the photos. Yep, it was as it said on the Help pages: probably a problem with the firewall. However the credit of managing to upload the photos goes to my dr. fix-it Lorenzo.

Not SO difficult, right?

I've spent a few days now looking around the web for info about blogging. Wow there's a lot out there... However I was so pleased to find this site http://thrbrtemplates.blogspot.com/ made by Thur Broeders that have nice templates to download and heaps of useful (and understandable) info for a beginner like myself. Thanks Thur!
Now I want to learn about the HTML code so that I can modify the templates (that is put in the info, photos, colours, links/linking) for my use =)

Time flies when you're having fun on the web....

photo?

Didn't quite manage to add that photo... hmmm I just have to try again

My neighbourhood

This is a beautiful lighthouse to the entrance of the port close to my house. When I often see it in beautiful sunsets or in the morning light I wish I could paint it. However I have to content myself at least for the moment being, to do a digital photo of it instead.

Now the settings are done (I think...) the way I want them. It isn't so difficult however the HELP page is up and running all the time. Oh well, a bit of patience and I can learn everything =)

how is this working?

Ok, I'd like to learn how to make, configure and do my own blog. And here I go....