For those who have been wondering . . .

We are currently on tour in Italy. To date we have been in Florence for the last few days and have been having a mixed bag of weather. I wish that we could send the rain we have been having here back home so that you could all benefit from the water supply that simply falls regularly from the sky over here.

Italy is hot and sticky especially after rain however with the right gear on you can still have a great time.

I have not had the opportunity to look at the news recently and so have been unable to comment on things. However the American news papers have been having a field day with the Bali trials and complaining that the Australians are racist simply because they do not think much of the Indonesian legal system.

My only comment on this case of alleged smuggling is that the Aussie girl now convicted of smuggling dope has to be a real idiot if she is guilty since the cost of mary jane in Bali is around five times cheaper than she could have bought the stuff in Australia. So unless she is a complete idiot it is hard to accept that she would smuggle things into a country which sells it cheaper than she could buy it in Australia.