Bronwyn wrote:
> Hi folks,
> Just returned from four weeks in Italy travelling around with husband,
> Franklin. The middle two weeks we rented two villas - one in Umbria
> about 10 miles out of Assisi in the hills, and one in Tuscany between
> Lucca and Florence.
> It was such fun shopping for provisions for the two weeks. After
> sightseeing all day and walking our feet off, my relaxation was to get
> in the kitchen and cook up a storm! The second villa we had friends
> from NZ join us. I cooked all the dinners, Mary did the breakfasts.
> The first week we spent in Rome and were given a list of restaurants
> to visit from an Aussie friend who lived there for 10+ years. They
> were all wonderful, simple and honest Roman food, and 'off the beaten
> tourist track'.


I'm pleased that you enjoyed you culinary adventure with us. It's
fairly easy to eat well here, isn't it? It doesn't sound like you hit
even one impossible place, although they exist-- a minority, but existent.

It took me a year to be able to read labels in the supermarket. I'm
impressed that you worked it out so quickly. At the beginning it could
take me an hour to buy food for one meal. I hadn't a clue what a lot of
things were and what you'd do with them. It was two years before I felt
capable of going to cookery school and understanding what they had to
say-- and I had studied Italian at university many years ago.

We had June in April and May has been April instead. 8 days of rain
after heat and dust for a month.

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