You have started the New Year for me splendidly.

I expect I will be back around the first of February.

I am now trying to "get back," but, I need more time.

I can only put the trip down to the wrong side of the ledger.

Personally, I got a lot out of it, but I am not sent over here to improve my knowledge of Europe, but to furnish news and stories and that has not happened.
I am constantly running against folks who knew you in Florence, and I regret to say most of them are in business at the Chatham bar.