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| Ready for dinner |
Yesterday was our first full day in Tuscany and after running around Paris and Florence, Howard and I were both ready for a little down time...translation, we stayed in our PJs till 2pm. Wow quite a treat! We finally ventured out but since it was rainy we decided to stay close to home and we hit the local market. A cross between Ralphs, Gelsons and WalMart! We were able to buy everything from toilet paper to home made pasta to a flat screen tv! Crazy. It was a bit challenging given that absolutely no one spoke English but we managed pretty well. I was anxious to do some home cooking and decided project #1 was to tackle the pizza oven.
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| The star of the meal...my pizza! |
They have a beautiful 300 year old pizza oven which was a blast to cook on. I think I did pretty well for my rookie try. All in all the first dinner was a huge hit. Today we decided to hit the road even though it was still raining. Our first outing was to Lucca which is only about 20 minutes away. Lucca is a charming ancient walled town which is now filled with enotecca's (wine shops), restaurants, clothing shops etc...one little problem, most of the shops completely shut down between 12:30-3:30...precisely when we arrived! We walked around and did some
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Howard in Lucca
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| All ready for dinner! |
"window shopping" until the stores opened back up but we wont be making that mistake again...thats a nice little custom of the italians...no wonder they are always so happy! Tomorrow we are off to Pietrasanta, a medieval and artistic town which hosts an antique market the first sunday of every month! That will be fun. OXOX
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