Italy Journal
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Day 2 Bra: Walk Around Town
We have really struck it rich! Valerio’s apartment is
wonderful! Thank you, Valerio, for sharing your place while you are on
vacation!
When we left the apartment, we heard lots of noise in the
town and found over 1,000 bikers preparing for some race or event of some sort.
It was amazing to see that many people lined up in the street just outside of
Bar Chiavassa! Just in front of the waiting bikers was a group of police and
others who were having a final huddle to make sure the bikers would be safe. As
the day progressed, we saw bikers all over town! It was such fun!
We went on about our walk and immediately ran into our
friend Alberto, who is our most famous wine guy ever. We may have dinner with
him tonight! Peter can hardly wait to pick his brain about the wine producers
to contact this week!
As we continued, we did a long walk around the hill and
ended up at our favorite pasta shop where we greeted Mara and Valerio Grimaldi!
We were all so glad to see each other, and they have invited us to their house
tomorrow for supper. We’re super excited about that! We bought some pasta for
tonight, then went on our way.
We took home the pasta we’d bought, then took off again to
the Gastronomic Society for lunch. It was delightful, and of course there we
saw Silvio and Gael cooking and Antonio eating with some friends. We got a
recipe for wonderful nocciola cookies made with sunflower oil from Gael,
enjoyed a luscious meal and walked back home for Peter to take a short nap while I contacted
Konny (German) to go and get gelato with us. He was all for it, and we learned
that he is now the head chef at a restaurant in town La Bocca Buona. We spent
most of the afternoon catching up with him while we ate gelato and drank coffee
(them, not me!). We were so pleased when he invited us to arrange a dinner for
our last night in Bra, to be held at his summer house that he is renovating in
Pocopaglia, about 6 km from Bra. We jumped at the chance and immediately
started making a guest list. We know the food will be delicious, and won’t that
just be more fun! Later, we went back to La Bocca Buona for a magnificent
supper alla Konny! Thanks, Konny. Have fun on your stage this week, and call us
when you return.
Ciao! Ciao!
Colleen
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