...and this is Uma :-)

This sweetypie here is Uma. Some of you know her story. We took her from our neighbour which had her closed up in a 1 square meter (metric system) room, with a fenced door and no way to get out or to make her things somewhere else as where she lived and ate. She was a horrible aspect and such a lovely soul. So we decided to take her in a friendly way from my neighbour. Unfortunately here in the country side lots of people are treating especially there dogs like a box of paper and just use them whenever they want. They don't know what it is to love an animal or have respect. My neighbours think we are insane because our dogs not only live with us in the house, but they even sleep on our bed. But interesting is, that this called neighbour met us the other day while I was walking Uma and Milou. She was astonished about Uma's looking and told me, that she hardly recognized her. Shiny fur, bright eyes and this little more weight on her bones...

She is realling learning hard to be a well behaved dog and to know the difference to make things outside and not in home. And she's just adorable. We all love her lots, even our cat Sati makes all efforts to be friend with her. Uma gained in 1 week 1 kg (which would be similar to 4 pounds) but it will take a longer time to feed her to her weight she should have.

cari saluti

Christina

comments from my clients

How nice to have my clients writing me back! This one reached me today and I was very fond of the picture of the original Chianti Classico rooster (this time with a white tail) Will shot.

This is the comment he and his lovely wife Jessica wrote:

Christina,

Sorry about the delay, but Jessica and I wanted to write you and thank you for such a great tour! It really was one of the greatest highlights of our honeymoon! Your knowledge about the wine is superb, but your true expertise lies in immersing your guests into the local culture. Having your personal assistant, Milo, along for the ride makes the experience that much better. Be sure to keep up your blog so we can read all about your adventures. Thanks again!

-Will and Jessica Barrett

Thank's to you dear Jessica and Will! I hope you enjoyed your honeymoon trip around Italy and will it be in your memory and something you will talk about with your grandchildren.

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Christina

soaking in the tourists

This morning I went shopping in Florence. I stopped at "Peter's Teahouse" in Piazza San Pancrazio 2/R, just a stone throw from Palazzo Strozzi. What a delightful shop for Tea and everyting around it! Loredana really knows everything about Tea and does find out in a second what kind of tea drinker one is. Afterwards I went through our alleys and watched the nicely dressed Saturday walkers. I call them like that because on a Saturday, lots of Florentine women seem to be more dressed up than usual. In fact, at stores like Zara you have to queu 20 minutes at the cash desk.

2 p.m., sitting at "Nella" in Via delle Terme 19 (very close to Ponte Vecchio), where I had a real good dish with Lasagne and where I soaked tourist in. What a joy to see 8 english people sitting and enjoying there lunch, chatting, laughing and telling each other where they had there best meals. What would Florence be without them?

Thank you for coming to Florence :-)

cari saluti

Christina

New safety measures for hand luggage on flights within or outbond Europe

From tomorrow 6th November on, the new safety rules for hand luggage on EU flights will start to be active. To read the detailes please visit http://www.lufthansa.de and choose your language. People flying within the next weeks will have to accept longer waiting times at airports.

Your wine or other goods may be packed directly in your luggage or if not, use our delivery service! To get more information about it, please drop me a line.

cari saluti

Christina

Neue Handgepäckvorschriften für EU Staaten

Ab Morgen 6. November gelten in ganz Europa die neuen Vorschriften für Handgepäck, welches auf Flugreisen mitgeführt wird. Die ausführlichen Erläuterungen dazu finden Sie auf der website der http://www.lufthansa.de sowohl in Deutsch als auch in Englisch. Wer in den nächsten Wochen in Europa fliegt, wird mit längeren Wartezeiten am Flughafen rechnen müssen.

Wenn Sie ihren Wein jedoch lieber nach Hause versenden wollen, nutzen sie doch unseren Speditionsservice! Für nähere Information mailen Sie mir bitte.

lg Christina