REQUIEM FOR THE LITTLE DOG WHO LOVED ITALY

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She really loved Italy and used to get very excited when seeing the suitcases as she knew that we were going to Bagni di Lucca. Actually, my husband used to joke about Tequila carrying more luggage than us...
For the past nine years, she came to Italy  with us at least  twice a year, in our car, staying overnight at hotels and coming with us everywhere we went: Bagni di Lucca, of course, where she was popular with neighbours and friends, Liguria, Emilia Romagna, Le Marche, Umbria, Lazio, Campania... From the Vatican to Loreto, From the Cinque Terre to the Costiera Amalfitana, from the Coliseum to Paestum...so many wonderful times and memories! Tequila loved pasta with grated cheese, enjoyed the "bistecca fiorentina" and would kill for gelatto. But she was 18 years of age, she already had a heart murmur and her collapsed tracchea was not getting better. We tried everything; however, we realized that 3 morphine injections a day were not giving her quality of life and it was selfish to prolongue her agony.
So this week, we had to let her go...
We will miss her enormously. Our morning coffee at Ponte a Serraglio or at the bar near our home will not be the same, but she had a good life with us after being abandoned by her previous owners. We think that she quickly forgot about those bad times.
Arrivederci, Tequila. We will meet again . And you will always be in our thoughts.

Have a safe journey Gala.

Thank you, Steve.  

Yup.  Safe journey Gala.     I hope the weather is as nice for you when you arrive as it is now.

Thanks, ghiro. I do hope that as well. It has been a long winter...

Safe travels, Gala.   

Thanks, Lisa. 

Nothing much has changed in Bagni, Gala, since you were last here; but the weather looks like it's perking up for your arrival.

Oh dear Gala, I'm sorry you've lost a member of your family. Dogs are the best friends ever.   

Thanks everyone! We made it!