Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Goodbyes - Enzo, Sara, Elettra


Italy Journal
Friday, March 15, 2013


LUNCH WITH ENZO

Enzo came over for lunch with me while Peter was at a conference at the university. We made pasta, and Enzo brought some of his tasty green cheese sprea that I love, and I provided some bread to go with it. He also brought some cream to whip and merangue drops to put in the whipped cream. When I added strawberries, we had a luscious dessert, too. Then, we went to Café Cavour to have some coffee. That’s his favorite café in town.

The big event of our time together was that Enzo discovered how to talk to people at the gate that want to come in and how to open our gate downstairs remotely from our house! This was big news, and I would love to be there when Daniel hears this. At our Suppers this year Daniel was the one who ran down the 2 flights of stairs to open the gate by hand every time someone rang the bell! We could have been opening the gate from inside the house all this time!!! Che Bello!

Saturday, March 16, 2013

LUNCH WITH SARA


It was a huge relief to get to spend the lunch hour with Sara Matteodo, our friend and former Italian tutor. Battaglino was the restaurant I chose for us to eat lunch, and it was again a wonderful meal – cooked ham, some spinach filled pasta pocket of some sort, and fried fish with broccoli and fried potatoes. Dessert consisted of a scrumptious tiramisu, with coffee afterward. YUUUUUMY!

Sara was relieved, too, when she realized that we would be returning to Bra in only 2 months. I expect by then Sara will be able to report a new job. Good luck with that, Sara! I really enjoyed getting caught up with you. See you on Skype at granmorich!

Baci e abbracci,

Colleen

ELETTRA AND AFFAGATO

I have been missing Elettra on her weekends at home from college, so this weekend I made sure I contacted her early so that we would be able to find a time to meet before we leave on Tuesday. We finally decided to go for affagato (are you seeing a trend?) in the afternoon today, and Bar Cavour had just what we wanted. She surprised me with a beautiful stone necklace that is very comfortable and looks great on me. I like it soooooo much. Thank you, Elettra, for this sweet reminder of a delightful young lady. I really enjoy spending time with you! Hopefully, we can get together again when we come back at the end of May!!!

Ciao, Bella!

Colleen

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