8 gennaio
I am sitting in the kitchen at the beautiful table, with the armadio full of dishes in front of me, and the other full of pots and pans behind me… most of the furniture and pictures and fixtures and lights and mirrors in this house are either old or antique… there is a woven fabric framed wall hanging, about 8 feet tall and 3-4 feet wide in the living room that is from the 18th century… all mixed with a modern kitchen and a balcony with a view of Siena and beyond… you must experience this to understand how well appointed this apartment is.
Trudy and I spent the morning cleaning up some cupboards in the kitchen—after a season of students living here, and with the last couple weeks of construction in one of the bathrooms (tile cutting in the living room!!?!) we decided to pitch in and earn our keep by cleaning up some of the kitchen… then I started a soup from some beans I soaked last night. I made a minestrone, and the dark green kale/cabbage that I bought was unlike any I’d seen, so prepared it like I would kale, and it added a nice touch to the soup. Tonight we will have a cena (dinner) at the house as we have the last couple nights—it’s great to cook in after so many restaurants! Pino will come for cena, and if the other roommate Catherine is here and wants dinner we will invite her. I will make some simple bruschetta with tomatoes and olive oil, and we will eat the soup with some wine, and for dessert some vin santo with cantucci, and basta! There is a supermarket in the middle of the old town where you can get anything you want, and then there are the meat, cheese, vegetable, salami markets within the town, as well as several small markets, some very close to the apartment.
We have shopped a little and bought a few things at the sales—many of the stores have their last-season clothes on 20-50% off sales, so we have bought some tshirts, and tanks, and sweaters… now tomorrow we will pack up our boxes of things that we bought in Florence and some that we have been wearing but don’t need any longer, and we will each ship a box home.
The travel plans have been fluid, and although I keep thinking and planning to go to Puglia, and to Bari where my grandfather’s parents were born, and where he was raised, it is not to be on this trip. We will stay in Siena another day, and on Saturday will leave for Naples and stay in Sorrento… more later… ciao tutti!
I am sitting in the kitchen at the beautiful table, with the armadio full of dishes in front of me, and the other full of pots and pans behind me… most of the furniture and pictures and fixtures and lights and mirrors in this house are either old or antique… there is a woven fabric framed wall hanging, about 8 feet tall and 3-4 feet wide in the living room that is from the 18th century… all mixed with a modern kitchen and a balcony with a view of Siena and beyond… you must experience this to understand how well appointed this apartment is.
Trudy and I spent the morning cleaning up some cupboards in the kitchen—after a season of students living here, and with the last couple weeks of construction in one of the bathrooms (tile cutting in the living room!!?!) we decided to pitch in and earn our keep by cleaning up some of the kitchen… then I started a soup from some beans I soaked last night. I made a minestrone, and the dark green kale/cabbage that I bought was unlike any I’d seen, so prepared it like I would kale, and it added a nice touch to the soup. Tonight we will have a cena (dinner) at the house as we have the last couple nights—it’s great to cook in after so many restaurants! Pino will come for cena, and if the other roommate Catherine is here and wants dinner we will invite her. I will make some simple bruschetta with tomatoes and olive oil, and we will eat the soup with some wine, and for dessert some vin santo with cantucci, and basta! There is a supermarket in the middle of the old town where you can get anything you want, and then there are the meat, cheese, vegetable, salami markets within the town, as well as several small markets, some very close to the apartment.
We have shopped a little and bought a few things at the sales—many of the stores have their last-season clothes on 20-50% off sales, so we have bought some tshirts, and tanks, and sweaters… now tomorrow we will pack up our boxes of things that we bought in Florence and some that we have been wearing but don’t need any longer, and we will each ship a box home.
The travel plans have been fluid, and although I keep thinking and planning to go to Puglia, and to Bari where my grandfather’s parents were born, and where he was raised, it is not to be on this trip. We will stay in Siena another day, and on Saturday will leave for Naples and stay in Sorrento… more later… ciao tutti!
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