Giusi wrote:
> 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.
>

The weather has definitely been quite changeable! It's pretty out today...

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