On Monday, for the first time in over a month, we drove beyond Tramin, to Ritten, a mountain near Bozen, to help a friend with cataloguing art books from her father's library. It's the same gig I had done for about two weeks in August. We'd decided we'd return to it again for two weeks between end November and early December.

It's been good to be able to move between towns, even though South Tyrol still feels deserted, thanks to the continuing lockdown. In four days there will be a gradual re-opening, and maybe the curfew will be lifted too.