So it's only 19 days till Christmas now, and it's a mixed bag of things I have to report. I've come down with a cold--lovely--we take off for Berlin tomorrow and I've got a cold. I can't win, I wasn't well when we went to Amsterdam either!! And no rest for the weary, I have a friend I have to go out and meet in Wimbledon tonight (more than an hour's travel just to get over to that side of the city, and then again to get back) because she is leaving the country for good while I am gone this weekend.
But I'm still excited anyway. I've never been to Berlin before, although my family has done quite a bit of traveling in Bavaria. I can't wait to check out the Chriskindlmarkts, and we plan to check out the nightlife as well (read clubs!). And hopefully for my sake, a little history as well, maybe a walking tour.
For the upcoming Johnson Family Christmas, I think I've finished booking and confirming things. These include a Panto, a West End show, a lovely traditional turkey roast dinner for Christmas Eve, and something else I can't write here because it's a surprise for my parents and they do stop by and read this from time to time. Oh yes, and a big dinner with my family plus friends and housemates and significant others, so that my family can finally meet all the people I've been talking about. Then we'll spend New Years week in Italy at Jenn's parents' farmhouse--sounds like it will be a big family thing for New Years Eve, I can't wait! Last time I was there when Rita gathered all her family together it was as Italian as it gets. Good food, great wine and prosecco and grappa and limoncello, and lots of loud conversation with people talking all over each other. Love it. Tressa has apparently been promised to help out with the sausage making, so hopefully we'll do that too.
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