Another day of cooking

Hi All



Right Wednesday we prepared quite a lot of dishes in the kitchen. It was a long lesson but we had loads of fun. Wednesday seems to be a bit of a blur right now, so until I remember all of it I will move on to Thursday now.



Thursday was our day off. So we could do whatever we wanted to for the day. But seeing as there was only one car amongst 11 it took quite a bit of organising to get everyone mobile for the day.



I spent the day with 3 of the great friends I have made here, Fiona, Angela and Denise. It was raining for most of the day so we stayed in and lazed around on the upstairs balcony with a view over the pool, we chatted and listened to music. Fiona played some Andrea Pochelli for us, and to our surprise one of the ladies that works here told us that she - Sylvia has written a song for him. Wow! It is a long story which I will tell to those who are interested when I see you again. The song is "Live for the Music"



Then when the rain had FINALLY cleared up we went to Poppi for the evening. Poppi has a wine festival this weekend and start the fest with a Firework show on the Thursday night at 24:00. There is a stunning castle in the town of Poppi, in the middle of the old side of town right up on a hill. So 6 of us had dinner at a really stunning restaurant and we had a wonderful time! We laughed and drank wine and just relaxed and had a dinner with "old friends". Perfect!!!

As we only left the Restaurant after 23:00 we walked to the Castle and were just in time for the start of the fireworks.



One can try but you had to be there to understand. The fireworks were done from inside the castle as well as on top of and the front of the castle. Trust me, Symphony of fires is nothing compared to how impressive this was. They had a fountain of fireworks run off the top of the castle all the way to the grass. Then the more fireworks the more smoke, so you had these wonderful colors and this castle in this smoking haze, so mid evil. It was a perfect end to the day.



Then at long last bed at about 2:00.



Take care all

D