Dear Followers of Bliss,

Juliet and I depart for Italy in the early hours on Monday. I will post my traditional Haiku post tomorrow and a little Italy surprise on Monday and then my wonderful guest bloggers will be featured for the next 3+ weeks.

For this evening I wanted to share just a few shots of Juliet's farewell dinner at Sushi Den to celebrate the end of her assignment.

This was our fourth trip to Sushi Den in the past 8 weeks and it may have been the best. The fish was something from the great handbooks of sushi masters and our chat with Chef Yasu was like being at home.

It is with a bit of heavy heart that I embark upon this journey. The closeness with so many of you in our daily comments will be missed sorely as I am many time zones east of home and likely involved in some serious sensory overload each day on the roads of Italia. I will miss you but TBA will live on in our guest posts and I implore you all to share your thoughts with these talented bloggers while I am absent.

Cheers to an enormously successful period here at TBA and I hope my occasional posts from the boot of Europe will be well received.

Ci vediamo amici

Michael