Italy 2021

Giorno quindici

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Il Sole splende! (The sun shines!) Si, il sole. (Yes, the sun)


Back to a regular routine of walking the wall. È stata una buona giornata per fare foto (It was a beautiful day to take pictures.)


We found a tunnel in the wall and followed it for a while. Really interesting as there are tunnels off the main tunnels that have been bricked shut. This must have been a maze in the past.


Had lunch at Antica Osteria. Dow had shrimp, calamari, cabras roe, and toscanini beans first and then lasagna with lamb ragù.  I had fresh taglionini pasta with pink prawns, cuttlefish and cabras roe. Then I had  pork cheeks slow cooked for 3 hours in a cast iron pan served with creamed potatoes. We were blown away with the quality of the food and unusual dishes. So unusual that we had trouble reading the  Italian menu with items that we did not know and had to ask for an English menu (example pork, cheeks, wild mallard, cockerel - that is a first.


Walked later in the afternoon and found another cardboard exhibit titled “Hybris”. Ho comprato la torta di mele. (I bought an apple cake/pie.) We then stopped in Piazza St. Michele for an aperol spritz and “people watched”.




One entrance to the wall
Street sweeper - has to be small to get through the streets
Canal flowing through the city
Oh, oh, an expensive parking ticket
Rentals for tourists for wall travel
Luigi Boccherini - famous composer and cellist from Lucca
Osteria Antica
bella donna
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fresh taglionini pasta with pink prawns, cuttlefish and cabras roe
shrimp, calamari, cabras roe, and toscanini beans
pork cheeks slow cooked for 3 hours in a cast iron pan served with creamed potatoes.
Lasagna with lamb ragù
Starting to fill up
Good dog
Notice her right hand
Hybris
Tunnels
Weather is clear so the mountains appear
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looks different with the afternoon shadows
having a late afternoon aperol spritz
La torta di mele - apple cake/pie

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