Italy

      I've been here a few days now, well two days anyway. We're staying in this little lakeside village called Lierna, my dad's friend has a place here, she's away for the summer and is letting us stay. I've never actually met her but she seems really cool judging from her house. She has a little statue of a Hungarian Horntail (the dragon Harry Potter faces in the Goblet of Fire). Her place is awesome, bar the giant spiders that occasionally crawl over you in your sleep. It's got a magnificent view, of which I'll include a picture at the bottom. The only problem with this place is that it's about halfway up a very steep mountain. It's quite a trek to get up here but at least I'm probably not going to get fat on this holiday, no matter how much nice Italian food I eat. It's kinda sad though cos the day I come back Weronika's cousin arrives meaning I'm not going to see Weronika until she comes back from Poland, a few days before my birthday (late August). It's probably the longest time we've been apart since we became such close friends and it's a shame but what can you do, I'm sure we'll manage to survive. Sure I have people to hang out with in Ireland and I'm  going to Finland for a few weeks too (yay).  I'm going to Milan later today which I'm looking forward to, we're meeting one of my dad's friends  there.
     Goodbye my munchkins,
     Ruska

     The view from the balcony, very picturesque. Like something you would see on a post card, not in real life.