Vince, this TR is all well and good, but weren't you just a bit farther
afield recently? Two of them "I" countries, as I recall... :-)

Sure and Begorrah, I was! Two weeks in Ireland, whence came my
ancestors; two in Italy, where lives my younger daughter; and ten
days In England.

Didn't do any fishing (I know, I know!) but I did walk along about a
mile of the Itchen, saw Isaac Walton's tombstone and window in the
Fishermen's Chapel of Winchester Cathedral, and visited Nether Wallop
and Over Wallop, on a trib of the River Test. How could I go to
England and not visit towns called Nether Wallop and Over Wallop?

I'll bring some pix to the Clave, if anyone would like to see them.

BTW, it rained most of today and more showers are forecast through
next Monday.

vince