11/02/2025 – The Rambling Sloth 🦥

😆 I have actually just booked a trip to Florence in Italy for the end of the month.

It started with a post on Her Travel Circle FB page this morning.

I talked about my trip, with Melanie, to Milan last October.

I messaged Melanie to tell her I’d posted but couldn’t tag her.

I asked her when she fancied going to Florence and we have literally just booked to go at the end of February!!!

All in the interests of Her Travel Circle exploration, of course.

Now Melanie’s house won’t be able to become a HOST house, as she doesn’t have a spare room but it shows what’s possible when you make connections with people. (I spoke for her there……. she may want to rent out a side of the bed 😆😆)

I am a nervous, people pleasing Scotswummin and she’s a New Yorker Italian. She’s not backwards at coming forwards… that made me smile…. I can say things like that without offending her. We just clicked.

It’s all about the connection and I want everyone to experience that!

I plan to run around Italy asking any woman i see if they fancy becoming a Host for Her Travel Circle guests 😆😆😆

Wow.

Honestly, no one is more surprised than me.

Florence here we come. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✈️🇮🇹

I went through the usual Ryanair debacle…. are you sure you want to travel with the teeny, tiny bag we let you travel with? Are you sure you want to risk the middle seat (I booked a window!) are you sure you want to travel UNINSURED…. It’s so ridiculous! It takes ages just to book the basic flights!

So now it’s done I have that feeling of dread, that I am stepping out of my comfort zone in a big way that weekend. But I know I will love it.

Travelling is my dream but that doesn’t mean it comes easy to me. I go into planning overdrive. I’m already counting the days I get to rest before I go!! 😆 jeez I’m hard work at times.

One more thing I’ve been meaning to talk about for a while now.

Facebook….. first of all The Rambling Sloth page is still suffering from my being hacked a while back…. It’s not recommended to any new readers so can I ask, if you like what you read, can you share it or tell people about it as that’s the only way to grow the page.

Not that I need to grow the page but I’m sad that I can’t seem to get around this suspension at all.

I have tried.

Also my posts keep getting spammed and I thought I should tell you all how I deal with it.

If you ever see a message where someone asks you to contact them….

Do this…… I block 2 or 3 people every day.

Don’t be scared to do it if you see it anywhere… always block any new profiles they may create. Most of the time they pretend to be in the US Military but today it’s been women…