Thursday 12th -Ravenna

It’s been on Eileen’s bucket list for decades, and today it got ticked off.

Essential 5th and 6th Century mosaics is what Ravenna is all about.

Maybe not obvious, but this selection of photos came from 5 separate buildings.

And the satnav is doing a fantastic job, even though it’s a bit old – what did we do before? Although it took a while to get used to some of her pronunciations –

“Boll-ogg-nar ” momentarily through us.

With the bucket list well and truly ticked off, there was also time left in the day for some light relief:

Eileen’s pistachio and fig flavours were up there with the best apparently.

Late afternoon by the pool – rather idyllic.

And found another friend