It's a great temptation to make the journey on to Milan last a fortnight, passing as it does through some of northern Italy's finest cities: Padua and its vast elliptical square lined with statues; Vicenza and its cluster of buildings by Palladio; Verona and its Roman Arena; Brescia and its circular Romanesque cathedral.
Not a fortnight has passed since the board of easyJet thought it might finally have drawn a line under its wranglings with Sir Stelios Hajitsoannou, its founder and 38% shareholder.
Yet nothing puts Sollecito and Knox in the room with him, apart from the newspaper reports that Guede would have seen during the fortnight that passed before his arrest in Germany.
And before a fortnight had passed, residents from all 50 states had taken to the White House's online petition tool to... well...ask the White House for permission to secede from the United States.
A fortnight ago parliament passed a bill that permits the government to take on off-budget debt equivalent to the combined annual economic output of Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia.The centrepiece of the spending plan is a network of high-speed railway lines to connect the country's four main regions with Bangkok.
As the fortnight with my guy passed, my grief deepened.
A bunch of books by Brazilian photographers (including the great Thomas Farkas, who passed away a fortnight ago), one of those hefty collections of John Updike's essays, "More Matter," and a couple of books about tennis that I'm reviewing.
Permission not quite granted, Rautert eventually got to work: Not a fortnight, no, three weeks have already passed since my arrival; I should really start taking photographs.
Permission not quite granted, Rautert eventually got to work: > Not a fortnight, no, three weeks have already passed since my arrival; I should really start taking photographs.
