Supper with Lucie & Dan

We returned the car this morning around 8AM. We had not filled up on gas last night and hoped we could find something along the way. Luckily there was a station on the way and it was even full service. No need to figure which pump to use, how to pay etc... The car rental company we used is on the other side of the wall but only about 5 minutes by car from where we parked. We walked back which takes about 30 minutes. We stopped at a bakery and each had a pastry for breakfast. They were yummy. Wendy had a glazed chocolate croissant thing, she said she is now too old to have glazed anything at 8AM, never thought I would hear that!

I worked on pictures in the first part of the morning and the blog. We also booked the underground tour at the Colosseum in Rome. Tickets only go on sale once a month and today was the day for March tickets. The tickets sell out if you don't book on the day they come out or close to it. Only limited numbers are sold. The website was so slow but we finally managed to get tickets.

Around 10, I walked to the supermarket to get some groceries as the fridge is almost empty. Along the way, I stopped at a place where they sell everything small that you need for the home. Better than a Dollarama but not too much better stuff. I bough some rope to be able to tied my grocery bag to my bike for 1 Euro.

I filled up one Sobeys Green reusable bag to the top and the bill came to only 14 Euro. If you stick to what is on sale, you can get some good values. Now that we have groceries, we had a nice large green salad for lunch with some olive bread.

While I was grocery shopping the landlord lady came by. The sink is leaking in a container under the sink. Wendy says she is in 4 inch stilettos heals and skin tight leather pants and she is squatting to look under the sink. I know Wendy could not do that. Anyway, I talked to her for a minute as she was leaving when I got back. Then she hopped on her bike and took off.

Lunch time walk for us today was to get directions to where we are going to meet Lucie & Dan tonight. It is at the same Cycle Bar that we went to the other night near the amphitheatre. We just wanted to make sure they had the right address.

Typical lunch for us with Olive oil and Balsamic vinegar as a dressing

Lots (all) old doors here in town

Class just got let out at the art school

Large trees growing on the wall

with people enjoying the sun at lunch time

A couple of areas have swings and stuff for the young children.

We had contacted a seafood restaurant via Facebook to see if they were open tonight as many are not on Mondays. We got a reply that they were not. Will need to find somewhere else to go tonight.

The rest of the afternoon was spent going thru my pictures from this weekend and completing the blogs.

We were to meet Lucie and Dan at 7:30 at the cycle bar. We left around 7:10 since it is a good 10-15 minutes walk to the bar we were going to meet them. Not too far on the next street from our place, we see Lucie and Dan walking towards us. I figured they were coming to our place but no, they were completely twisted around. This city does that easily! They had 4 bottles of wine for us, so we walked backed to the apartment and drop them off. Gave them the 5 minutes tour of our place and off we go to find a restaurant that is open and looks good.

We start our walk towards the amphitheatre area of town as lots of the restaurant are located there. We find a place on the street next to our place that looks interesting.

We sit down and order water and Chianti wine that the waitress recommended to start. The menu is mostly Italian with the odd thing translated in English. The Specials on the wall are all in Italian as well. The table next to us had ordered a plate of antipasto (prosciutto, salami, another cured meat and cheese) to start with, so we decided to order that too.

Lucie, Dan and I ordered Osso Bucco as it was on the special board and we knew what that meant and we all like it very much. Wendy was not sure what she wanted and what was on the menu. We asked the waitress to explain the specials to us. She knew some English but not very much. Wendy decided to order some pasta off the menu. When we got our meals , Wendy ended up being pork in a mustard sauce topped with a pile of arugula with lots of olive oil. It was actually delicious

We had a second bottle of wine with the meal. We talked a lot of their trip to Cinque Terre, and Venice when Dan proposed to Lucie in a Gondola last week-end. Lots of excitement, a beautiful ring, looking forward to hearing wedding plans, Italy?

We decided to have dessert and asked what was on the menu and the waitress said no dessert but the chef was finishing some cream brule. We all said yes. Not the best I ever had but it still tasted good. Wendy's was not cooked enough and was too runny for her, so she only eat the top half as it was more set.

We asked for lemoncello but none was available but she suggested a sweet Italian wine instead. It tasted a lot like port which we all enjoyed very much.  Will have to go back and get the name as we will try to find some for the apartment.  I pretended to steal the bottle and the waitress said I could but I left it behind. 

We walked Lucie and Dan back to where they parked their car and said our goodbyes as they are leaving to go back to NB tomorrow.