It didnt take us very long to have a look at the local things which meant that we were finished way before lunch so we decided to head to Asciano to do our shopping. Now we only have like four nights left in this amazing place but we ended up buying five bottles of wine, some beer and prosecco and that was just the alcohol. So we had to bring it all home first so that the white wine was ready for us that afternoon after lunch. So home we went. Now this is where I really should have listened to Brett. The I am so confident I can get us to Buonconvento without a map attitude took over. We had received a recommendation from someone over the last few days plus it was in one of the books that there is a little restaurant called "marios" in Buonconvento. Now we had been through this place several times so I was so confident that I could get us back there for lunch without the map. In hindsight (always a wonderful thing) this was not such a great idea. I got the first part right but instead of going into the town and then out the otherside, I skipped the town and we ended up going in the rather large circle back towards Asciano. By this stage I knew we were heading the wrong way and had to say something.
However we kept going to Asciaano and we thought we could just have lunch somewhere else. Lucky there was a sign at the roundabout just before going into town and we followed it to Buonconvento. A couple of times I still wasn't 100% that we were going the right way but the views and scenery from the road were amazing so we kept driving. It was the right road and it took us a little longer than I had planned to get us to lunch but it was so worth it.
This was definitely where the locals ate. There is no menu and when he told us the menu we were a little overwhelmed and zeroed in on what we understood which was wild boar stew. It was fantastic. When we heard the menu read out to everyone else you hear that there is 3 or 4 types of pasta you can have with several different sauces for the first course, and then there is the second course. It really is not that complicated but when he was telling us it seemed harder.
In these little places if you want a glass of house wine they bring you the whole bottle and you pay for what you drink. I had one glass and it cost 1 euro, yep you read right 1 euro. Brett didn't have any wine as he was driving. We weren't going to have dessert but well I was silly enough to ask and then well before you know it you have ordered something and are eating dessert.
The trip home was along the same road we came and the weather was just perfect for driving slowly and just looking.
Now to wine time, I had planned that we would have apertivo (this is where you have a drink and snack after work and before dinner). It was too early for this so we opened the white wine, grabbed our comics headed down to the pool area and laid around in the sun drinking and reading. An hour or so later it was time for aperitivo (snacks and drinks). At this point we decided that it wouldn't be a good idea to open another two bottles of wine (1 for aperitivo and then 1 for dinner) so we combined and only opened the red. The prosecco will have to wait for another day.
Thursday night is il giovane montiblanco (the young montiblanco) so we stayed up till 9:30 to watch him. I look forward to the day where I can understand all of it.
Love Monique, Brett, Marty, Kiwi and Hooter
Location:Somewhere in Tuscany
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