Volterra is a remarkable walled Medieval hill city, renowned for its
Etruscan artifacts and alabaster craftwork. Also, apparently, they filmed
some bit of some US movie here, and the place is full of posters, shirts,
books. *sigh*
For dinner tonight, we are spoiled by using as napkins special embossed
Tuscan-region paper, carefully separated and folded by an authentic Italian
grandmother! Such luxurious treatment!
Mary overcame her discomfort about people buying things for her to let Stan
buy her the cute red purse she was looking at.
Noshing at Rivoire on the Piazza della Signoria. Uno birra, per favore!
It’s the ceremonial wedding gelato in front of Neptune’s fountain! What a
country!
Huzzah for the Happy Couple!
Mary & Stan, looking lovely. Now, a bit of privacy.
A limoncello (et al.) toast to Stan & Mary.
Jim cooking chicken at the villa. Yum.
Kay and I ascended the Leaning Tower. Great view from up there (behatted
tourists not included).
Yeah, we’re silly tourists.
I think this where we’re spending the rest of the day. 🙂
Stan ponders the olives.
My sooper-sekrit, strictly Not Allowed, covertly snapped photo of
Michelangelo’s statue that REALLY TRULY EXISTS. Wow!
Arno River from the Vasarian Corridor off of the Uffizi Gallery (large
windows to photograph through courtesy of Benito Mussolini).
It’s a scosh shady and cool right now,but when the sun is high it should be
lovely …
Temple to Neptune (well, Apollo, as it turns out) in Paestum.
Kay and Ginger, looking for a smackerel of something.
Happy Italian Birthday, Kitten!
Yeah, we had to force ourselves to choke dessert down.