July lay-out

We did these and lots of other things in July - it was warm, we ate strawberries and picked blue berries, went to Hamina Horse Show, to Lovisa, Sofia went to the riding camp, Daniele to the sailing camp and it was Carlotta's birthday.

Ferragosto, autumn feelings and a summer lay-out

Today it's Ferragosto in Italy and the summer holidays begin for lots of people. Here in Finland schools start and the weather is really autumn like, so here there is a summer-is-over-feeling. Again, we are very lucky, because when we get back to Italy in about ten days, summer still continues!
I did a digital lay-out about our four days in a summer cottage. It was so nice and relaxing. It was windy there most of the time, rained a little bit, but the water still was warm and we had at least one swim after the sauna every day. The children went swimming also without the sauna.
This was about the only moment when it wasn't windy at all and we went out rowing before going to the sauna.

Summer days

July is over already! We came to Finland on the 1st of July and have almost only had sunshine here. Today on the 1st of August the air was much cooler, but still very nice. I have been working quite a lot, but have also had time to go horse riding, see some friends and relatives (not so many, though), to swimming, eat strawberries, blue berries and raspberries and Daniele and Sofia have been to their summer camps. Nice summer days and we are lucky to have quite a few more to go before schools start in Italy in September!

Last days of our mountain holiday

The third and fourth day in Peio

The first days of our mountain holiday in Trentino

Summer week in the mountains

Long time no updating. The third week of June we went to the mountains and just got home to unpack and do some laundry and on the 1st of July we were off to Finland. Our week in Trentino was very good. There are beautiful sceneries where ever you look and I took hundreds of photos. Every day we went out hiking, some days longer hikes and most days just shorter ones. In the hotel we had a nice sauna where we could relax after the walks. There were quite a lot of children in the hotel and Carlotta played a lot with the hotel keeper's daughter who was the same age. On the third day the hotel organized a nice barbeque and there we got to know another family from Brescia who had a boy and a girl Daniele and Sofia got a long well with. The last days we hiked together with them and also asked to join our tables in the hotel restaurant so we could have dinner together. It only rained a bit one day and the day we arrived there, so we were very lucky with the weather again.