Today we “live like Italians” (well sorta). First agenda item in the morning is to buy pasta and pasta sauce for dinner, bread, salami and cheese for lunch. A trip to the market with a little haggling and we have everything we need. Next agenda item is to get rid of our accumulated trash. The guy who checked us into the apartment, showed us where to dispose of the trash with a broad sweep of his hand, pointing somewhere to the southwest. Needing to be more specific, we scouted the area and found the trash receptacles in the Piazza della Unita Italia (where else could it be). Next on the “live like an Italian” agenda is to find a caffeteria for an Italian cup of coffee (latte, cappuccino, etc). Then a light lunch, siesta, another walk, and then to find an osteria (tavern) for an aperitif before dinner.
All we needed to do for dinner was heat the sauce and cook the pasta. The apartment was well stocked with pots and pans, but we couldn’t get the stove to work. After much head scratching, we realized that we had an induction stove and a kitchen full of aluminum pots and pans. Back in the corner, we found two unused hot pink pots (apparently made of steel, because they worked!). The “revenge tourist” in me stuck the pots all the way in the back again…snicker, snicker! The dinner, once cooked, was molto buono!
For tomorrow, our second to last day, we plan to see the tower of Pisa.
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