Luna di miele

The winterpoodles are now on their honeymoon, hence "Honeypoodles", and are presently staying at Taormini in Sicily having visited Venice in the North of Italy. The access to Taormina was via nightrain express , a 17 hour journey in a wagon lit which was fine and dandy apart from the lack of sustenance available on board. No dining car but the attendant was able to produce a highly homogenised and preserved ham panini that had been assembled in June (it now being late November). The poodles are non carne types so the dead pigs bottom had to be extracted and the resultant salty mush was consumed reluctantly. This might have contributed to the difficult nights sleep but what a joy to awake in Calabria and cross the Straits of Messina on the train on the boat, reminding me of a song about being "on my pony on my boat" by Lyle Lovett.