Another gorgeous day. We went to the beach after breakfast -- which means we didn’t get there until lunch time. We had organized with the bagnino to get better seats today, and were happily placed in the front row -- for a nice tip. We had a picnic lunch, we swam, we took the pedalo boat out for a spin. It was a beautiful afternoon at the beach.
On our way home, we drove to the market in Orbetello. Once back at the villa, Avery napped and the girls swam in the pool. I made an ambitious dinner of cozze (mussels) steamed with garlic, white wine and butter (not bad for my first attempt – it was actually much easier than I thought) and several whole fish -- spigola. Yum. Love that spigola fish.
We had a hard time waking Avery up from his nap. He might have slept through the night. But wake him we must, because we had plans to go up to the castle at Marsiliana for an olive oil tasting organized by our hosts. Each week, the agent hosts a tasting to give their guests an opportunity to meet one another and to see the castle. We tasted three different oils (which tasted very similar to me), along with toasted and fresh breads, tomatoes, salt, pepper and also with sugar. This was a great dessert for the kids: fresh bread with olive oil and sugar makes for quite a nice treat.
It was late when we left, and there was some talk of returning home. But I encouraged the troupes to press onwards to Capalbio where the first night of “Afrodesia” was being hosted. We paid admission to listen to two African music bands – one from Senegal and one from Mali. I can’t say either was really fantastic, but the kids enjoyed going to the concert and hearing the interesting looking instruments being played.
It was 11pm again before we returned home. We’ve certainly succeeded in putting the kids on the real Italian program of staying out late.
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