Kelley and Larry you guys need to move to Italy…..dinner NEVER starts before 8p and like tonite not until 9p. Therefore, we are never home before 11p and we are up by 8a. And we write all this before we go to bed, whew….but we’re still having a ball.
We were off and running again today…and on the shuttle by 930a…..it was going to be a long ride, about 2hrs.
Our road trip today was long, but worth it. They don’t believe in rest stops here, so to use a potty it’s a gas station….or a small café….where it is rude to use the toilette if you don’t buy something….so we were all dying and we finally got to stop but we all had to have a drink of some sort…..once that was done we were off to Abbazia di Sant’ Antimo. www.edizioni.antimo.it This is an abbey and we needed to be there in time for the 1245p chant. There were 3 monks for that…it was very interesting…didn’t last long, but I’d never seen or heard that before. We read that they do this 7 times a day….wow.
Then we headed to Croce Di Mezzo winery for lunch. It was wonderful. Again, the cold meat tray and bread and brochette, then a pasta with red sauce, then chicken/ribs/sausage roasted potatoes and salad….lots of wine and dessert. Then we toured the winery and headed off to the town of Montalcino. Another small walking town that has a wonderful cheese shop. We had a gelato and kept moving. On to Montepulciano winery. …home of the world renowned Vino Nobile wine. Their wine cellar is known to many as the most beautiful wine cellar in the world. Not sure about beautiful, but for sure VERY old.
By this time it is almost 7p and we have a 1.5 hr ride back to Soriano….and of course dinner. Actually we could all most likely go to our apts and crash. However, we are being hosted this evening by some friends at their BandB…so we graciously go.
Most of us slept on the ride back…..we are whopped but keep going!!!
It was a lovely home the wood floors were amazing. We had another fine dinner. Starter, 3 different types of brochette, followed by pasta, which we were told is called Midnight Pasta. Where we in the USA have pizza at midnight to kill the craving, they fix this. It was very simple…spaghetti pasta/olive oil/little red pepper and romano cheese….yum and sort of light. Then followed by English peas, roasted potatoes, and a thin sliced roasted pork with prosciutto on it. Then dessert was a cream type tart with pine nuts and another tart that we are not sure what the filling was….but nice. Her home-made biscotti was the best we’ve had so far.
We said our thank you’s and headed back to Soriano…a very short ride thankfully. Once again we headed up our several hills around 11p…..we are very glad tomorrow is a short ride to do some shopping and lunch and back to the villa to cook.
See ya on the web-cam tomorrow…..good night from chilly Italy!!!
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