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OK so we didn't quite meet him, but we went to mass with him on Easter Sunday and he waved to us . . . and the other thousands of people all there to say hello.

          

We've had quite a busy week all in all, we made it to Pompeii (there are some pictures under big adventures on the right), and then travelled back up to Rome which is where we have spent the last few days. We've seen lots of sights including the Colusseum and Vatican City although the real highlight had to be seeing the pope on Easter Sunday. We travel again tomorow this time to Florence where we'll be spending a few days visiting Florence and the surrounding area. I think we're at a camp site for this one which should be interesting. Unfortunately my time is about up on the internet so going to have to cut this short.

Hope everyone else had a fantastic Easter, I'll try and get some descriptions up of the pictures soon (thanks Jim for pointing that out), and tell you a bit more next time, until then . . . ciao!

The weather was a little grey to start with today after a spot of rain early in the morning. After a quick check on the weather for the day, we set off for Trelissick and the closer we got, the better the weather! It turned into a really warm and sunny day, which was great for walking around the garden. There was plenty to see, but also signs of damage caused by the recent bad weather.

We also managed to get ourselves on a house tour limited to 10 people for the day, giving a glimpse of the second floor and cellars that are normally closed to the public. It was intersting to see a few different bits including the rather grand billiards room and the quite extensive wine cellars.

In the evening we headed out for dinner to Pizza Express in St. Ives. We arrived a little early for the table we had booked, but this gave us a chance to see the RNLI lifeboat being towed back in. Dinner was nice, and on the walk back to the car, I took a few more night photos before calling it a night.  

I had looked at a few other blog type sites and decided I wanted to simplify the URLs for the website. After a quick read around on the Internet I came across Apache mod rewrite for the .htaccess file. Now that's more than likely meaningless to anyone that might look at the site and up until very recently didn't mean a lot to me either. After having a looking on a couple of different websites, it seemed to achieve what I was looking for with very little effort.

To begin with I had to create a .htaccess file in notepad as there wasn't one in the root directory of my hosting account.

I started by adding:

Options +FollowSymLinks -Multiviews

This enabled mod rewrite on my hosting account with godaddy

I then started by removing the requirement for .php at the end of my php pages. I copied and pasted the code for this from a site I came across:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}.php [L] 

I then added a few custom rewrites to simplify access of the blog and album elements of the website. Having very little experience of mod rewrite I was really pleased to find an automated tool in the shape of www.generateit.net/mod-rewrite/index.php.

That's pretty much it, now I have super simple URLs instead of those long php parameterised ones that I had before!