Travelled evening of Maundy Thursday: taxi, train, plane — all straightforward and hitch-free. Dedi met us at Treviso. Had some dinner when we got to Nonna’s — minestrone and some meats; then to bed pretty sharpish.
Friday seeing some of the family. 
Perhaps we went to IperLando, or maybe that was Saturday. Stefi, Bruna, Renzo, Selena, Alvise, Morena, Assunta, Giada, Marco, Claudio… I went down to Tasca and bought some sockets to replace some of Cesarina’s, which had blown (some of them over ten years ago!). Fitted those.
Saturday, the girls helped Nonna and Bruna make pasta and put the pasticcio together. Lola particularly good with the mixing and then the putting through the machine. Saw Francesca, Elena, Marina…
Sunday, of course, the big Easter do. 13 at the table for lunch – no Selena or Alvise though, as Selana was worried by the fact that Morena has shingles (though she’s had chicknpox, so no actual risk). Selena is significantly more risk-averse now she is pregnant. Even when it’s demonstrable that there is no risk.
Monday — pasquetta — went with Selena and Alvise and Bruna and Renzo to a bonkers place in the montello, “Pioppi”, which would give UK health and safety fans a series of major heart attacks. Adventure playground run out the back of a big trattoria; huge great “homemade” slides, roller-coaster things, and various ingenious but potentially lethal Heath-Robinsonesque divertimenti.
Tues Isa feeling a bit wobbly – albeit not sure if this was an illness or just an adjustment… Weds, though, saw high fever and a day in bed; same for much of Thursday.
Weds Dedi took the girls and me to Jeselo (Lola and Neve’s vote). They had a lovely time paddling and collecting shells and rolling around in the fine sand. Beach was pretty much deserted; some tractors working on the sand; dog walkers; a couple of groups of teens playing beach games…
It’s a great drive out to Jesolo – Dedi takes the old route, following the Sile out to portegrandi. Including that series of old “named” houses that, Dedi was saying, were commissioned by Mussolini.
Thurs, Fri. Some short bike rides; got skirting board cut (by Stefano) and stuck it up where missing in the kitchen. Must have gone to Tasca to get glue the day before… (Unfortunately, this was not the “no-more-nails” type I had assumed it would be, but a smelly impact adhesive. Still, seemed to do the job.)
Saturday, Isa up and about. We went into Treviso after lunch. Dedi dropped us off at Via Montello and we hung around outside the wall a bit, watching the ducks and rabbits. Then a stroll through town, window-shopping and chilling. Stopped at a bar by the fish market and had a spritz.
Sun we went out on the bikes with Giada, geocaching – couldn’t find the one on the pista cyclabile, but found the one off Via Croce. Stopped off at Dedi’s gelateria on the way back where the kids tasted approximately every icecream flavour available.
Monday we went to Venice. Walked around cannaregio area (misericorda, insert viewranger link), art shop with family where wife from somerset, lunch near there but not so good, despite recommendation by said artists; then walk up to madonna dell’orto and caught vaporetto round island to san pietro del campostello, an amazingly wastelandy part of Venice. See the viewranger route here.
Tues went into Treviso, saw Susi. Isa’s hair, girls extensions. Bus home, Bruna interception at Ponzano, buy cake tin, got home, had dins. Then Lola and Neve made bday cake for Dedi.
Weds morning, I managed to get out for first (and last!) early morning bike ride. Did about 20k in foggy drizzle, across b-roads and dirt tracks up to the Montello and up a real hill through the woods before returning via a slightly circular route. Utterly fantastic: beautiful countryside, pheasants wandering across the roads, 
irrigation canals disappearing into the mist, ancient stone-built houses in the middle of nowhere (can I buy one for 20k euros and do it up? can I? can I? [No – Ed]). One year (next year?) we’re going to do huge bike rides every day, and Lola will be speeding around…
Weds also Dedi’s bday, doing icing, lunch, Castelfranco, Neve flagging complaining of tummyache, high fever by time home. Had been constipated a few days; and patatina still burny despite antibiotics… So she and Isa stayed at home while Lola and I and the rest of the family went out for pizza in Paderno. All back to Nonna’s house for coffee and the cake Lola and Neve had made. This greeted with great enthusiasm by all.
Thurs, Neve still with high temp. In bed much of day. Isa went to supermarket with Nonna, and later to sign a document with the lawyer, finalising some of the division. Earlier in the holiday, we’d looked at the papers listing how the division was made.
Fri and Neve’s temperature is the on way down. Isa and I went to Treviso after lunch–Isa driving Dedi’s car. We wandered around window shopping; went to Pietrobon but their stock not what is used to be. Isa bought two pairs of jeans at Sisley, then we stopped at the optician and caught up with Grazia, and booked an appt for Lola the following day for eye test.
Thus, Saturday saw us heading to Treviso to give Lola’s eyes a polish. Stefi gave us a lift in her tiny little car. While Lola was being tortured with little letters, we went out for a drink and snack at a local bar. Then back to pick Lola and Isa up, and goodbye to Grazia and out for another quick pit stop in a lovely little bar/pasticceria for a coffee and snack. I had a black croissant — make with ‘carbone vegetale’. Very nice.
Finally, we are over the various illnesses and have acclimatised, destressed and are beginning to relax — ready to begin our holiday only… drat — tomorrow is our last day!
spedicolata – Renzo’s word to describe Selena’s driving… Actually, I think I misheard, he must have said spericolata (daredevil)
Neve accepted with great patience that she would have to wait until she was seven before she could spend the day with Dad at the office. That’s the age Lola was when she came.
Chris was working from home, so Neve sat at his desk, doing her puzzles, a bit of reading, a bit of writing on the walls… I got on with work. We went to the cafe for elevenses, and then out to Balfour for lunch where Neve chose the lasagne – just the job for such a hot day. She did mention, in fact, how it warmed up her insides!