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'.
The last week we visited Venice and Milan so restaurant choices were
'hit and miss' but really, we didn't have a bad meal all month.
Brilliant blue skies dogged us all April, turned out to be the warmest
April for 100 years!
Hope you enjoy looking at these pix. URL: http://community.webshots.com/user/bronwynferrier

--
Cheers
Bronwyn
Oz

"Bronwyn" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> Hi folks,
> Just returned from four weeks in Italy travelling around with husband,
> Franklin.
> Brilliant blue skies dogged us all April, turned out to be the warmest
> April for 100 years!
> Hope you enjoy looking at these pix. URL:
> http://community.webshots.com/user/bronwynferrier
>
> --
> Cheers
> Bronwyn
> Oz

Very nice. We wee there end of March into April and it happened to be the
coolest time just before your warmest time.

There is, however, no bad food in Italy. We had good food in the
restaurants and were able to find quality ingredients in the markets. Glad
you had such a good time.
--
Ed
http://pages.cthome.net/edhome/

On May 8, 11:31 am, "Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote:
> "Bronwyn" > wrote in message
>
> ups.com...
>
> > Hi folks,
> > Just returned from four weeks in Italy travelling around with husband,
> > Franklin.
> > Brilliant blue skies dogged us all April, turned out to be the warmest
> > April for 100 years!
> > Hope you enjoy looking at these pix. URL:
> >http://community.webshots.com/user/bronwynferrier
>
> > --
> > Cheers
> > Bronwyn
> > Oz
>
> Very nice. We wee there end of March into April and it happened to be the
> coolest time just before your warmest time.
>
> There is, however, no bad food in Italy. We had good food in the
> restaurants and were able to find quality ingredients in the markets. Glad
> you had such a good time.
> --
> Edhttp://pages.cthome.net/edhome/


That's right Ed! Heard about the cold snap just before we arrived! The
Romans were still rugged up in scarves and coats in the sunshine not
quite sure whether the warm weather was staying! Glad you had a good
time, a wonderful country to be sure for foodophiles.

Thx for looking at the pix.
Bron

"Bronwyn" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> Hi folks,
>
> Hope you enjoy looking at these pix. URL:
> http://community.webshots.com/user/bronwynferrier
>

Just wondrful! The most appealing looking dish to me was yours!
The Veal & Proscuitto 'birds' over Umbrian style green lentil and vegetable
stew.
Have you posted a recipe for this?

On May 8, 1:30 pm, "cybercat" > wrote:
> "Bronwyn" > wrote in message
>
> ups.com...
>
> > Hi folks,
>
> > Hope you enjoy looking at these pix. URL:
> >http://community.webshots.com/user/bronwynferrier
>
> Just wondrful! The most appealing looking dish to me was yours!
> The Veal & Proscuitto 'birds' over Umbrian style green lentil and vegetable
> stew.
> Have you posted a recipe for this?


Thanks for that! I just made the dish up Italian stye.
Flatten some veal scallopine pieces, season, lay on top of similar
sized proscuitto(s) slices and roll up tightly so the proscuitto is on
the outside. Secure with a toothpick pierced with a fresh sage leaf.
Saute gently until just brown in olive oil. I allow 2 'birds' per
person.
Meanwhile, in an ovenproof shallow pan/dish, saute mire poix of finely
chopped carrot, onion and celery in olive oil. Add crushed garlic and
some finely chopped herbs like parsley, thyme. Cook gently and stir in
a quantity of green puys lentils (can be pre-soaked in water for half
hour). Add quantity of hot chicken or veg. stock to just cover. A
little dry red or white wine can be added too if desired by deglazing
pan in which the meat was sauted. Place the 'birds' snugly on top.
Cover dish with foil tightly and oven bake mod oven for say, 1 hr max.
The aroma will send sane people mad and keen to be your very best
friend!
--
Bron

"Bronwyn" > wrote
> Cover dish with foil tightly and oven bake mod oven for say, 1 hr max.
> The aroma will send sane people mad and keen to be your very best
> friend!

Saved in my Recipe file, thank you! Very creative, looks delish.

On 7 May 2007 17:32:30 -0700, Bronwyn >
magnanimously proffered:

>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.

My wife and I planned to take a similar trip (also taking in Venice
and Rome), and renting a villa near enough to Florence that we could
spend a week to ten days enjoying Florence's art & culinary treasures.

Unfortunately, our septic system decided to choose that time to have a
nervous breakdown and we ended up spending our holiday money on
engineer's reports, council permits and the installation of an
expensive, new system that recycles wastewater so we can use it to
irrigate our trees. We called our new system, Florence, and when asked
about our holiday we tell people that we decided to sit in deck chairs
and look at the new septic tank instead.

Our time will come, however. And when it does, I've already told the
travel broker we're using that while my wife travels with all of her
senses, I travel with my appetite. I cannot wait to eat my way around
Italy.



--

una cerveza mas por favor ...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~

On May 8, 2:10 pm, bob > wrote:
[snip]
> My wife and I planned to take a similar trip (also taking in Venice
> and Rome), and renting a villa near enough to Florence that we could
> spend a week to ten days enjoying Florence's art & culinary treasures.
>
> Unfortunately, our septic system decided to choose that time to have a
> nervous breakdown and we ended up spending our holiday money on
> engineer's reports, council permits and the installation of an
> expensive, new system that recycles wastewater so we can use it to
> irrigate our trees. We called our new system, Florence, and when asked
> about our holiday we tell people that we decided to sit in deck chairs
> and look at the new septic tank instead.
>
> Our time will come, however. And when it does, I've already told the
> travel broker we're using that while my wife travels with all of her
> senses, I travel with my appetite. I cannot wait to eat my way around
> Italy.
>
> --
>
> una cerveza mas por favor

What a sad tale! My language would not have been quite so mild re the
septic debacle. However, it's probably a while back and you can
almost see the funny side now.
Have fun planning your trip to Italy, we kept the calouries at bay by
walking everywhere, eating lightly for breakfast and lunch, enjoying
the divine icecreams and a great dinner in the evening with a bottle
of red (avoiding the whites generally speaking).
Cheers
Bron

bob > wrote:
> Bronwyn writes:
>
> >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.
>
> My wife and I planned to take a similar trip
>
> Unfortunately, our septic system decided to choose that time to have a
> nervous breakdown and we ended up spending our holiday money on
> engineer's reports, council permits and the installation of an
> expensive, new system that recycles wastewater so we can use it to
> irrigate our trees. We called our new system, Florence, and when asked
> about our holiday we tell people that we decided to sit in deck chairs
> and look at the new septic tank instead.

PUH-leeeze! People are eating here!

Some people's idea of dinner table conversation... you vacuuous
lout... feh!

And you're no kind of writer, commas are NOT garnish.

Sheldon

"bob" > wrote in message
> My wife and I planned to take a similar trip (also taking in Venice
> and Rome), and renting a villa near enough to Florence that we could
> spend a week to ten days enjoying Florence's art & culinary treasures.
>

Sorry to hear of your problem. If you do go, this is the place we rented.
It was a great location, reasonable price, outstanding facilities.

http://www.villeinitalia.com/houses/...tHouseNumber=8

The agent was good also. This is just outside of Florence so you can drive
in in 20 minutes or take the train nearby.

The drive from here to Venice is about 3 hours.

On Wed, 09 May 2007 01:52:22 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski" >
magnanimously proffered:

>
>"bob" > wrote in message
>> My wife and I planned to take a similar trip (also taking in Venice
>> and Rome), and renting a villa near enough to Florence that we could
>> spend a week to ten days enjoying Florence's art & culinary treasures.
>>
>
>Sorry to hear of your problem. If you do go, this is the place we rented.
>It was a great location, reasonable price, outstanding facilities.
>
>http://www.villeinitalia.com/houses/...tHouseNumber=8
>
>The agent was good also. This is just outside of Florence so you can drive
>in in 20 minutes or take the train nearby.
>
>The drive from here to Venice is about 3 hours.

Many thanks for the link. That place looks perfect ... and very
reasonably priced. Being able to train into Florence is a HUGE
advantage. I'd better get back to my Italian lessons. Cheers, b


--

una cerveza mas por favor ...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~
Wax-up and drop-in of Surfing's Golden Years: <http://www.surfwriter.net>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~

Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
> "bob" > wrote in message
>> My wife and I planned to take a similar trip (also taking in Venice
>> and Rome), and renting a villa near enough to Florence that we could
>> spend a week to ten days enjoying Florence's art & culinary treasures.
>>
>
> Sorry to hear of your problem. If you do go, this is the place we rented.
> It was a great location, reasonable price, outstanding facilities.
>
> http://www.villeinitalia.com/houses/...tHouseNumber=8
>
> The agent was good also. This is just outside of Florence so you can drive
> in in 20 minutes or take the train nearby.
>
> The drive from here to Venice is about 3 hours.
>
Even for a small place without pool, that's really cheap. Good for you
for finding it.

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"Giusi" > wrote in message
>>
>> http://www.villeinitalia.com/houses/...tHouseNumber=8

>>
> Even for a small place without pool, that's really cheap. Good for you
> for finding it.

The owner figures he is priced 20% less without a pool. That is fine with me
as we don't care about a pool and would not be using it. He won't put a
pool in because it would not be fitting with the character of the existing
house and land use. They have many fruit trees and over 100 varieties of
plants.

One reason we chose that place was the first floor had only two steps inside
as my wife cannot take steps well. It was like living in a castle!
--
Ed
http://pages.cthome.net/edhome/

bob > wrote in
news

> Unfortunately, our septic system decided to choose that time to have a
> nervous breakdown and we ended up spending our holiday money on
> engineer's reports, council permits and the installation of an
> expensive, new system that recycles wastewater so we can use it to
> irrigate our trees.


http://www.biolytix.com/index.php


????



--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

"People sleep safely in their beds because rough men stand ready in
the night to do violence to those who would do them harm"
-- George Orwell

On Wed, 9 May 2007 04:10:23 +0200 (CEST), PeterL
> magnanimously proffered:

>bob > wrote in
>news >
>
>> Unfortunately, our septic system decided to choose that time to have a
>> nervous breakdown and we ended up spending our holiday money on
>> engineer's reports, council permits and the installation of an
>> expensive, new system that recycles wastewater so we can use it to
>> irrigate our trees.
>
>
>http://www.biolytix.com/index.php
>
>
>????

A similar idea and in the neighbourhood, but different technology from
across the ditch. This is the system we settled on:
http://www.oasisclearwater.co.nz/

Biolytix continues to work if there's a power outage and the Oasis
Clearwater system doesn't. However, the OCS will still continue to
accept wastewater for several days and then process it when the power
is restored.

In heavy soil like we have (clay), the self-contained Oasis Clearwater
system works better because the soil really isn't porous and drainage
is bad - which is one of the reasons why our conventional septic
system failed in the first place, even though it was less than eight
years old! The other was that two of our three ten metre deep sink
holes (drainage bores) were put over springs and filled up with water,
and only one sink hole was operable.

According to the engineer's report, there were no guarantees that we
wouldn't encounter the same kind of failure a few years down the line
even with five or six new sink holes.

Our postponed holiday in Italy aside, the new system has been worth
the expense. We live right on the northeast coast of New Zealand's
North Island in an area known for its dry summers and exposure to
wind. Since Florence was installed, the trees along our boundary
(planted as windbreaks) have flourished like never before and our
olive trees have benefited from the wind protection. To bring it back
on-topic, the next things on our agenda are fruit trees and a vege
garden like we left behind at our last property. Who says a septic
tank ain 't worth shit?


--

una cerveza mas por favor ...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~
Wax-up and drop-in of Surfing's Golden Years: <http://www.surfwriter.net>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~

bob > wrote in
:

> On Wed, 9 May 2007 04:10:23 +0200 (CEST), PeterL
> > magnanimously proffered:
>
>>bob > wrote in
>>news >>
>>
>>> Unfortunately, our septic system decided to choose that time to have
a
>>> nervous breakdown and we ended up spending our holiday money on
>>> engineer's reports, council permits and the installation of an
>>> expensive, new system that recycles wastewater so we can use it to
>>> irrigate our trees.
>>
>>
>>http://www.biolytix.com/index.php
>>
>>
>>????
>
> A similar idea and in the neighbourhood, but different technology from
> across the ditch. This is the system we settled on:
> http://www.oasisclearwater.co.nz/


Seems quite simple.


>
> Biolytix continues to work if there's a power outage and the Oasis
> Clearwater system doesn't. However, the OCS will still continue to
> accept wastewater for several days and then process it when the power
> is restored.


What they haven't nutted out yet is how to stop the phone alarm from
screwing with the landline connections. I've been having problems for
quite some time with the phones/ADSL connections and have been getting
quite irrate with the phone company. Today, a new technician came out
as, once again, we had lost our landline.

He spent 5 mins looking over the layout of the wiring, then cut the line
to the crapper tank. Problem solvered!!

No static, stable ADSL, clear phone lines.

So now Biolytic is going to have to send someone out to look at why
there's a short in the tank.



> garden like we left behind at our last property. Who says a septic
> tank ain 't worth shit?
>


LOL!! I definitely won't be using the worms in mine to go fishing with!!


--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS! Das computermachine ist nicht fuer
gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk,
blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken
bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-
pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das
blinkenlichten

On 7 May 2007 17:32:30 -0700, 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'.
>The last week we visited Venice and Milan so restaurant choices were
>'hit and miss' but really, we didn't have a bad meal all month.
>Brilliant blue skies dogged us all April, turned out to be the warmest
>April for 100 years!
>Hope you enjoy looking at these pix. URL: http://community.webshots.com/user/bronwynferrier

Thank you for taking me to Italy with you.
I really enjoyed the photos.
Koko
---
Blog in progress
http://kokoscorner.blogspot.com
updated 4/14 Irish Pub page.

"There is no love more sincere than the love of food"
George Bernard Shaw

On May 8, 2:16 pm, Koko wrote:
> On 7 May 2007 17:32:30 -0700, 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'.
> >The last week we visited Venice and Milan so restaurant choices were
> >'hit and miss' but really, we didn't have a bad meal all month.
> >Brilliant blue skies dogged us all April, turned out to be the warmest
> >April for 100 years!
> >Hope you enjoy looking at these pix. URL: http://community.webshots.com/user/bronwynferrier
>
> Thank you for taking me to Italy with you.
> I really enjoyed the photos.
> Koko
> ---
> Blog in progresshttp://kokoscorner.blogspot.com
> updated 4/14 Irish Pub page.
>
> "There is no love more sincere than the love of food"
> George Bernard Shaw


You're most welcome!

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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On May 8, 6:38 pm, 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.
>
> --
> Posted via a free Usenet account fromhttp://www.teranews.com


Guisi, thanks for that interesting response. As a child I grew up in
Melbourne Australia which has a large Italian population, so I always
familiar with Italian meals and produce. My mother, Australian, loved
to cook, she was very adept at French and Italian cuisines. Now, in
my 50's, Italian cooking is the mainstay of my cooking, but (modestly)
I cook Indian, Thai and anything else I can get a recipe (southwestern
US cooking,creole, whatever).
This recent trip was my first to Italy - I had been saving it up for a
special trip - and I was not disappointed! As you can see from my
photographs, an interest in cooking gives a wonderful focal point for
travel. Yes, we saw lots of galleries, churches and architecture
too...but it will be the food I will remember!
You are an Italian American, right? How wonderful that you live in
Italy now, whereabouts?

I am glad you got some rain after we left -- everything was very dry
indeed.
Cheers
Bronwyn

Bronwyn wrote:
> On May 8, 6:38 pm, Giusi > wrote:
>> Bronwyn wrote:

> You are an Italian American, right? How wonderful that you live in
> Italy now, whereabouts?
>
> I am glad you got some rain after we left -- everything was very dry
> indeed.
> Cheers
> Bronwyn
>
No, I am French-English American who is Italian by choice. In Umbria.

We are still facing a possible failure of the crops in the most fertile
area of Italy. We've missed a lot of rain and had almost no snow at all
this year.

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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...

--
"All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one
quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once."
- Billy the Werewolf, The Dresden Files

On May 7, 5:32 pm, 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'.
> The last week we visited Venice and Milan so restaurant choices were
> 'hit and miss' but really, we didn't have a bad meal all month.
> Brilliant blue skies dogged us all April, turned out to be the warmest
> April for 100 years!
> Hope you enjoy looking at these pix. URL: http://community.webshots.com/user/bronwynferrier
>
> --
> Cheers
> Bronwyn
> Oz

Thanks for sharing your great pics- I was in Italy about 10 years ago,
and had the time of my life! Like you, I had no bad food. I thought it
was funny when, at restaurants, you were asked "gas or no gas" when it
came to water.