Our thoughts and prayers today are with our Italian friends and their families in the Abruzzo region of Italy. DMJ was there in 2007 as a guest of SIM - Scuola Italiana di Pesca a Mosca (school of fly-fishing) in the little village of Castel di Sangro in the province of l'Aquila, the epicentre of the earthquake. He made many friends and the hospitality shown him was sensational. Il dio e con voi.