Verona

I am arrived at the Hotel San Marco in Verona. It’s a beautiful day and I’m eating a toasted cheese sandwich and drinking a cold beer in the familiar surroudings of the hotel which has is and has been the venue for the PHPDay conference. I’m here two days early and have plenty of time to rehearse and refine my talk After finishing my blog post last night I sat down and started to read my book. I was reading my book because I purchased it a an hour earlier at a book shop. The foreign section of foreign bookshops often have a distilled selection of the classics - Moby Dick, The Great Gatsby, 1984, etc. I had read most of the ones I recognised decades ago but there two that I hadn’t - “Tender is the Night” by Scott Fitzgerald and “To the Lighthouse”. I’ve never read Virginia Wolfe.