Tuscan Photographs

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I've put some pix from my recent trip to Tuscany in Italy on-line.

In other news, my wife has suggested a brilliant and radical re-interpretation of the Swedish 70s dansband pop hit "Margareta", by Sten & Stanley. Comprehensible only to speakers of Scandy, I'm afraid.

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It looks wonderful, and still very green. It would be interesting to compare with pictures taken at the end of the summer.

Judging from these pictures I think you could have had a worse vacation.

These are beautiful photos. I hope you don't mind, but I've added you as a contact on flickr so as to see any other pictures of tiny mice and such that you may post.