Change of plans. We were planning to join Stefania and her family on their boat and go to the island of Giglio. Stefano was going with his family to have lunch at a friend's place. But the weather didn’t cooperate. It was only a bit cloudy in the country, but apparently, it was raining along the coast so our respective hosts cancelled plans.
It was nice to do nothing for a bit.
Our kids enjoyed playing with Francesco (4) and Andrea (1). By now Olivia had the alter-ego of “mamina” as she looked after baby Andrea and made him laugh. After a morning of playing on the lawn, we all went to Capalbio for lunch. Baby Andrea slept throughout. After we had eaten a very basic (for Tuscany) meal, we had a passeggiatta and showed our friends around the small historical center of Capalbio.
We had planned to visit the Niki de St. Phalle Giardino di Tarot in the afternoon, but the weather cleared up. It became hot. So we changed plans again and decided to return to the pool.
In the evening, Selvaggia came over to babyist so the adults could go out to dinner -- the adulst plus one that is. Baby Andrea joined us and cooperated by sleeping throughout the meal, again. We dined at Al Cartello on the recommendation of our Italian neighbors – in fact Alessandro called for us to make the reservation to be sure we would get a good table. And we did – our table was right on the water, and the sandy beach. We arrived just before sunset and took some photos. Then we enjoyed a delicious meal. We had some excellent raw fish as an antipasto and then shared some pasta and a huge Fragolina (called such for its reddish skin color). I even had a crème brulee for dessert – that’s a first for my year in Italy.
It was truly a wonderful evening out – even if we did have to mind the clock since we had to be home for the babysitter tonight by 10:30pm.
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