Sunday, July 3
Hello,
Sorry about the title. I'm getting desperate! While I don't think this will be the last post, our trip is basically over. Tomorrow we fly to London and stay with Molly and Martin for 10 days. Since Dad and I have been in London many times, we won't be seeing the sights there. We are trying to get tickets for a play, but no results yet. We will also spend time with our youngest brother and his very pregnant wife. She is due in 3-4 weeks--the twin boys I mentioned in an email a couple months ago. I can't wait to see them.
The little pink and blue things are cotton balls. I've never seen them colored until now.
Today we went outside the city (Rome being the city) and visited 2 lakes and 2 small towns. The first one, Gandolfo, is where the Popes can go when they need to get out of the city. Pope Francis has decided that he is not going to use the Summer Castle, but maybe things will get crampy at the Vatican and he will change his mind. The village has a population of 8,000. It's on Albano Lake.
Then we drove to Nemi Lake. They are known for their really small strawberries. We had a little torte-like thing that was really nice tasting. On the way there, we stopped on Rocca di Papa. It is a road that is clearly going uphill. Our driver got out with a water bottle, laid it in the road, and the bottle rolled uphill. We looked behind us, and the road was definitely going downhill. Very odd. He was hoping that Molly could explain it. She's a scientist, but her specialty is brains, not hills! She had no idea why. We thought it was an optical illusion, but really--the road is going uphill.
We had a rather fancy lunch. It was some of the best food we've had. Equal in taste to all the lunches we had in China. I could not begin to know what we ate--just that it was delicious. This place is a famous winery. We went down to the wine cellar--huge. The most expensive bottle was 9,000 euros. The oldest one they had was from 1962.
Molly has been wanting to try a nice Italian wine, but the one they brought to her turned out to be from France. It had to do with her telling them what type of wine she likes. I guess it didn't match any of the Italian choices. So much for getting Italian wine.
We came back to the hotel, watched some tennis, went out for our last gelato, packed up, and then we all put on a face mask. Dad is not sure he likes these things, but he's always willing to don one. Although after about 3 minutes, he was ready to take it off!
Our trip is not over, but the touring part is. Now we can stay put and take walks and help Martin eat the 17 jars of jam that he made! I know one of them has my name on it. :))
amy
Oh--Germany beating Italy was good news for our family! Now we wait for the match against France. Football/soccer I'm talking.
x
Hello,
Sorry about the title. I'm getting desperate! While I don't think this will be the last post, our trip is basically over. Tomorrow we fly to London and stay with Molly and Martin for 10 days. Since Dad and I have been in London many times, we won't be seeing the sights there. We are trying to get tickets for a play, but no results yet. We will also spend time with our youngest brother and his very pregnant wife. She is due in 3-4 weeks--the twin boys I mentioned in an email a couple months ago. I can't wait to see them.
The little pink and blue things are cotton balls. I've never seen them colored until now.
Today we went outside the city (Rome being the city) and visited 2 lakes and 2 small towns. The first one, Gandolfo, is where the Popes can go when they need to get out of the city. Pope Francis has decided that he is not going to use the Summer Castle, but maybe things will get crampy at the Vatican and he will change his mind. The village has a population of 8,000. It's on Albano Lake.
Then we drove to Nemi Lake. They are known for their really small strawberries. We had a little torte-like thing that was really nice tasting. On the way there, we stopped on Rocca di Papa. It is a road that is clearly going uphill. Our driver got out with a water bottle, laid it in the road, and the bottle rolled uphill. We looked behind us, and the road was definitely going downhill. Very odd. He was hoping that Molly could explain it. She's a scientist, but her specialty is brains, not hills! She had no idea why. We thought it was an optical illusion, but really--the road is going uphill.
We had a rather fancy lunch. It was some of the best food we've had. Equal in taste to all the lunches we had in China. I could not begin to know what we ate--just that it was delicious. This place is a famous winery. We went down to the wine cellar--huge. The most expensive bottle was 9,000 euros. The oldest one they had was from 1962.
Molly has been wanting to try a nice Italian wine, but the one they brought to her turned out to be from France. It had to do with her telling them what type of wine she likes. I guess it didn't match any of the Italian choices. So much for getting Italian wine.
We came back to the hotel, watched some tennis, went out for our last gelato, packed up, and then we all put on a face mask. Dad is not sure he likes these things, but he's always willing to don one. Although after about 3 minutes, he was ready to take it off!
Our trip is not over, but the touring part is. Now we can stay put and take walks and help Martin eat the 17 jars of jam that he made! I know one of them has my name on it. :))
amy
Oh--Germany beating Italy was good news for our family! Now we wait for the match against France. Football/soccer I'm talking.
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| Pope's summer castle in Gandolfo. |
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| Santa Tommaso del Villa Nova church. It's parallel to the Pope's castle. |
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| Gandolfo village |
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| More of Gandolfo. |
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| View of Albano Lake from Gandolfo |
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| More of the same. |
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| Pano of Albano Lake |
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| The first Post Box, dated 1820. I'm becoming skeptical of these 'first' sights we have seen. Molly just googled it--Wiki says Paris had the first post box in 1653 . . .? |
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| Veg and meat market in Nemi. |
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| Just liked all the flowers. |
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| Dad patiently waiting for us to stop shopping! |
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| Pano of Nemi Lake |
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| Our last lunch on the road! Pagnanelli restaurant. |
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| Nemi Lake from our restaurant |
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| And looking the other way as we ate. |
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