Life certainly quietens down when I’m not going to school. The last couple of days have been most sedate. Yesterday I wandered about the town checking out a few things I wanted and going to a church of the lesser variety that nonetheless has some beautiful carvings. I have a problem (as always) with printing my tickets/ boarding passes so I went in search of somewhere to buy a USB so I can take stuff to a commercial place to print. Hows that for an exciting mission?? It rained on and off yesterday so that was my excuse not to do too much after I’d farewelled Chris.
Today I went and had my coffee etc, came home and did a bit of school revision and a tad of …OMG!!…ironing!! I got home to find I had left my kindle at the coffee shop so had to hot foot back to (fortunately) retrieve it. Then I went out to meet the friend of Angie Berry’s who’s in Lucca this week, Caroline. She remembers all you kids from picking grapes at the land. She remembers you all as fabulous kids!! We went to have a bowl of soup for lunch (and a glass of wine, I think I may have rather shocked her!!). She is a delight and it was lovely to have such pleasant company for lunch.
Then I wandered the town with her for a while going here and there, having a coffee, I show her my lovely walled garden and she showed me the best place to buy wine in town….excellent discovery for me. Then returning her to her B&B. I’m not sure how much we’ll see each other although she does want to go for a bike ride at some stage I think and will no doubt be in touch. While I was waiting to meet her before lunch I went a bit shopping mad (so unusual for me) and bought myself a leather handbag (bright red) and a leather computer case thing (bright red!!!). What can I say??? How much will I have to throw away to be able to accommodate them??
I think I’ll take a little trip to Prato one day but otherwise I’m going to enjoy a slow week and try to discipline myself to ensure I do a bit of Italian each day.
Ciao all….hi Tonga familyt!! I’m planning a visit to Fiji so standby!!