My "disappearing acts" ....

First, thanks to everybody who has contacted me during my long and many absences from RetouchPRO, to ask if I was all right!!!

Fact is ... I live like a "gypsy" ... My husband and I spend 6 months in Europe (Italy-Germany-UK), and 6 months in South Africa.
I consider myself very lucky for this, but, there are many disadvantages as well... the worst are:

• doubled possibility of problems
• half the time to solve them..
• re-thinking and re-organizing my life ... twice a year
• packing and unpacking suitcases
• spending endless hours at airports and on airplanes..

Talking about airplanes... I still remember a long lazy afternoon of a scorching Italian summer, when it was too hot to even decide what to play at .... My brother, my friends and I (I was 5 or 6 years old) were just lying in the grass under the protecting shadow of a big tree when, very high in the sky, I saw a small silver 'dot' moving...
Wishing it with all my heart, I simply said that one day I would fly on a plane!!!
Everybody laughed at me ... none of our families had enough money for us to even take such a possibility into consideration!!

Well, looking back, I couldn't agree more with the saying 'you should be careful with what you wish... it might come true!!'