This blog will necessarily be more sympathetic than most of ours. Indeed may even be unapologetically soppy in parts. I did ask "why here?" Not convinced I ever got the answer! Anyway : (Apparently) For no other reason that I can fathom, than that the happy couple once enjoyed going somewhere else completely(!), that isn't now available, our great friends Jack P and the beautiful Hannah are tying a Windsor knot in Tuscania, north of Rome. Scicily wasn't available, this is.
Delayed by the pandemic we hope this heralds a return to some normality!
Fair play, it is beautiful here. this is the entire reason we have been travelling from Scicily up to Italy with the intention, finally, of getting a free lunch!
So Thursday, was the first gathering of the entire wedding party. Pizza, wine and reunions!
extraordinary hosts - many thanks on behalf of all the guests!
As so often seems to happen when our friends get together, I was forced to over indulge, my memory is perhaps a little sketchy. A speech by Freddie certainly rates with one of the best I've heard, and sets a very high bar for the coming wedding speeches, well done young man!
Much expected and richly deserved quality piss taking! Uni tales from Durham, Jak the Lad, the hardest man in the north, a lingering undercurrent of anti-Etonian sentiment, the unfortunate Barnaby, and the gentlemanly way JP wormed his way into Doddsies life (my polite version) in the back of an ambulance!
Day 1 of the wedding ended well back (literally) at our ranch, with gin and Martini Fiero (around £12 at Ocado- do not miss this point!).
Day 2 into the sweetest village of Tuscania for lunch ( for 5 with tripe(?!) beans, gnocchi, beer and wine etc €50! Very nearly the free lunch we came for!)
I've decided the wedding itself deserves another soppy post which I shall write later. Just to say so far - how amazing this is turning out to be!!!! More later .....,
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