It is Sunday night and it is time for our weekend catch up. Great weekend. We went on a little trip with a few of our friends from class to Lucca on Saturday and Sunday was supposed to be a relaxing day at home with a brief stroll and then home for a lovely dinner but well no dinner and an awesome lunch out.
Saturday
First off we headed off to the markets for food and wine for Sunday night. Wine (sempre) meat and veggies. Brett was going to make beef cheeks with polenta. We were both very much looking forward to having this meal for tea on Sunday. Funnily enough I still haven't had time to look for a handbag at all. Maybe this week.
Off to Lucca, we were meeting everyone at the train station at 11. Everyone wanted a sleep in or rest before we had to head off.
Here is Marty and Kiwi waving goodbye to Florence. They were very excited to finally be getting out and about again.
Here is a photo of our friends from school.
By the time we got to Lucca it was lunch time. The streets were quite and it was such a lovely day. We were striding with purpose around the streets with the occassional stopping for some photos..
The above photo looks like it could be an album cover for a band.
It was time for lunch. Now this is always hard when you are in a new place but then add in that there was a group of us and Brian is a vegetarian. Eventually it was the piazza with the touristy places that had the tables in the sun. It turned out that the food wasnt half bad and the company was great.
I know they are a bit young to drink but really they only had a sip (well maybe hooter had more).
Below is Brian and Brett trying to look like really cool italian men- what do you think, did it work?
Here is me and the gang in front of Puccini statue (we saw this because one the girls with us is an opera singer and wanted to visit his house).
We went off to find this torre and climb it.
Brian was having a go at me about not be able to climb the duomo because of my fear but let me say neither Brian or I made it to the top. Brett and Birdie did and here is a shot of my lovely husband.
We had a lovely stroll around the wall and by that time Brett and I had decided it was time to head home. As the trip takes about 1:30 we would be home by 8:30 or so just in time for tea.
This is my friend Birdie (not real name, but nickname as I cant pronounce her name). Such a lovely day (mezzo) in Lucca and probably worth another visit so I can hire a bike to ride around the wall.
Sunday
Today was supposed to be a relaxing day at home. Saturday we use as our day off no homework etc so today is supposed to be about homework and just hanging out at home. So we got the hanging out at home bit but by lunch time we were ready to go and find where the hire car place was and find somewhere for lunch. I had done some research for where we would eat.
So off we went - now I was thinking a quick pasta and back home so brett (pane - new nickname as most italians cant say Brett it comes out like bread) could cook us an awesome meal. Well it didn't really go like that at all. This restaurant was awesome. We had two courses plus the freebie stuff they gave us on arrival. A glass of prosecco and some sort of fried bread (we knew then we were in trouble).
First course was ravioli with rabbit ragu for me and brett had ravioli with truffle sauce. Second course was baby roasted pig with roasted potatoes. A half bottle of wine and well you had to roll us out of there. Free biscoti (the best every). They even gave us a packet when we left. The owner of this place I just wanted to squish him with hugs etc as he was so cute. He was very short and stocky. So cute. Speaking of cute so was our waiter.
So we rolled out of there about 2:30 and came home had a nap and woke up about 6pm. I actually think this was Brett's plan all along as I wanted to go see i promessi spossi (they have made it a modern opera) and it was on at 16:30 today and it was the last day. Oh well I had such an awesome lunch I will let him pass.
So no dinner and no wine and have finished my homework (which was a bit hard as it is pronomi combinati (combine pronouns).
Hope you have all had a lovely weekend and work isnt too bad for you.
Love and kisses to you all (well maybe not all of you)
Love Monique, Brett, Marty, Kiwi and Hooter
Location:Piazza del Duomo,Florence,Italy
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