Tuesday April 26,2022
Monday was the Italian Liberation day and most everything was closed. Good day for the Roman Baths tour at Vasto. A medieval church was built next to and over the baths but a landslide in the 1950s uncovered intact mosaics. The mosaics were elaborate mythological designs done in white and black ivory. Our tour was in Italian but a young lady with her husband and two young girls had been an exchange student in Cincinnati and her husband had spent a year at the University of Minnesota and she offered to translate. Margaret returned the favor by producing two protein bars when the young girls got hungry and started tugging on their mother. They were from a nearby town, Cupello, which was having an artichoke festival.
Since Cupello was on our way home, we stopped at the festival. We skipped the mass dinner as the lines were long and mass dinners are just not appealing to us. But we had some fried artichokes and Spritzes and went into their very nice church. We left with 6 kilos of fava beans and 20 artichokes and a dozen pastries. Margaret distributed the beans, artichokes and pastries to our neighbors but we kept some back and had steamed artichokes as an appetizer for dinner tonight.
Our wood shed was a dark, dirty jumble of mismatched wood and today we cleaned it out and prepared it for the new load of wood. No snakes were found but I made sure I was careful. We had started to burn some of that old Elm wood and it makes for a nice long lasting fire. But the weather is getting warmer and an evening fire in the kitchen is not the necessity it was in the previous weeks.
Margaret wanted to grocery shop at a different store in the nearby hilltop town of Gissi. We can see it across the valley but it is higher and the drive up is steep with many hairpin turns. It is only 15-20 minutes away but seems longer especially as you see oncoming traffic passing on those turns.
We will take off Thursday and Friday and do some exploring
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