Day 8
WEDNESDAY
– May 14
FLORENCE - MONTELORO
We got up early and
Mike and Mary came to breakfast at our apartment. We drove to Sieci.
Our landlord is a doctor there and he had arranged a dentist appointment
at 10:15 for my wife who had lost a filling in a molar our last day in Padua.
Mary went armed with her Italian dictionary.
The dentist was very kind and understood some English.
He said that his father lived in Chicago.
He put in a temporary filling, with the permanent one to be put in on
Friday.
We stopped at the
grocery in Sieci on the way home. I
went to the pool on the villa property to read, but I kept falling asleep.
My wife took a nap to recover from her dentist ordeal.
We had lunch at Mike and Mary’s apartment.
Down by the pool is
a cute little cabana with nice furniture. W
e
all sat down there and read and napped. We
were rather tired and decided just to relax and do nothing.
This was the day that we had planned on going to Siena and if time
permitted on to Assisi. I guess we
will have to put that off until another trip.
We had brief lunch stop in Siena on our Globus trip in 2004.
My wife and I rush up to the cathedral, but there was a long line so we
didn’t have time to go in.
We had our happy
hour at the cabana and then went up the road to try Orlando’s again.
It was open and we there for most of the evening.
It is the only building in Monteloro – one website calls it “Downtown
Monteloro”. We had a hard time with the menu. They didn’t have any English
menus. My wife had ravioli with
cheese and anarugula salad.
I ordered steak. The waiter
brought out a huge slab of meat, but I indicated I wanted something smaller.
They sold it by the pound. It was very tasty but a little tough.
We had dessert “in a cup” from the ice cream freezer . Mike and Mary
had been there many times, and it had always been crowded, but this time we were
the only people there for most of the dinner. It
took a long time for the waitress to figure the bill.
