Wander the main street, which winds snail-like to the top. Stop in a few shops, like the hand made shoe shop. (Karin bought hand made boots in Venice.) Buy the espresso maker (small coffee pot) we'd been looking for. Nice lunch in a sidewalk café...canneloni for three and sandwich for one, and bean soup for one. Uno liter Chianti della casa, acqua minerale too. For desert: panna cotta (like a flan but less eggy), choc. souffle, and for Sue Anne, una torte della nonna (which translates to grandma's cake...a lemony custardy thing. Delish.) We try to have some local specialty foods. On the way into the restaurant K&D bumped into the couple from Massachusetts whom they had met in Venice. Though they knew we were all coming to Radda, it was still a surprise to find them so quickly.
Note three languages on the sign below. Very common here.
There are a lots of guidebooks here at the villa, which is actually a rebuilt farm house. We'll take more pictures tomorrow. Huge beams on the ceilings, quality built tile floors etc. The pool is closed for the season. Three bedrooms and three bathrooms like in Venice. Quite the luxury.
Karin, Dan, and Cathy set off for nearby Castellina, while Bruce and Sue Anne stayed in Radda. Sue Anne did a few sketches and Bruce headed off to the Internet café to post yesterday's blog and check mail. They have wireless service there, so he spent his time at a table out on the patio with his tablet PC. Not a bad way to communicate. Finished up with gelato.
Saw a sign for a mushroom festival (festa di funghi) in a nearby town, but by then it would have been to late to go. Spent a bit of time in the little town park, then back to our villa. Shower, check the state of the wash, relax. K&D&C back from their jaunt. We learned the word for non-alcoholic beer which Dan bought by mistake.
The TV channels here are almost all in German, even if originally in Italian.
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