Bombardino contest results

One of our party out here in Limone is Ashley Gurdon, Nee Roberts. Her brother is renowned historian and author Andrew Roberts, much maligned in Private Eye if I am not mistaken. I believe that he was always keen to be a historian but felt there was not much future in it. She has enormous good taste not especially shown in the picture below having married her husband Mark who is depicted below in typical pose. However that renowned good taste was clearly absent when she decided to marry her husband, Mark. Frankly I cannot see the attraction but apparently beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, all I can suggest is that laser treatment is long overdue.

Mark Gurdon looking a lot better after winter in England

The weather has been sublime throughout, the Arrucado where we are staying if a wonderful boutique hotel and restaurant reachable only by skis or skidoo after the pistes have closed. So once you get there its a bit of a lock in, but to be locked in to their fabulous restaurant and great Italian wine list is far from hardship. The first night was enlivened by some Barolo and last night we partook of an Amerone from heaven, well Italy. I had never before succumbed to the delights of Italian wine other then barolo, but on this occasion I weakened.

Before that, yesterday was designated bombardino Wednesday. A bombardino is a coffee found in Italy (at least I found it a few years ago) made with a local liqueur called Vov and a whisky and often covered in a mountain of cream. They vary in quality, and so it was decided by that nice lady decorator to try a bombardino in each cafe on the mountain. A rating system based on 1 – 10 was quickly established and the final ratings were decided in the Hammam at the hotel before dinner. I have no idea of the result and I don’t believe any of our party did either, and neither were they in any state to care. I do remember that the public schoolboys amongst our party were in the element, enjoying a ritual de bagging of the only council house boy on the trip. I have now spent enough time in the presence of such chaps that I am resigned to their enjoyment of schoolboy ritual, and thank my maker that I had a normal enough up bringing without having to worry about the sexual proclivities of the prefects, the verger or any house-masters of dubious sexual intent.

Thankfully all I try to do is to rescue people from the clutches of their banks when moving foreign exchange by introducing them to the glory that is Currencies Direct so I am able to claim that throughout this short trip to the Alps, I have been working.

Chris France
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