Friday, June 29, 2012

Day 40, Thursday June 7, 2012


Goodbye Il Paluffo. We started by driving up past Firenze and hitting an outlet mall. It seemed a little to exclusive, so we moved on.


Drove to Rome and clawed our way to the hotel. Roman driving is challenging. We picked up a bottle of wine for my cousin Madeline, who was hosting us for dinner. My cousin Lucia picked us up at 7:45 and we took the short drive over to Madeline's. It was great to see everyone.


We got all sorts of sordid family details. Eventually all the daughters were there. Natalia, Lucy's oldest, had it together. Unfortunately, Madeline's husband was away supervising some house renovations in Tuscany. We had a really nice dinner with cheese risotto and a vegetable flan. The strawberries and ice cream dessert was great.


Lots of talk about the family and so on. Kimberley got on great with the younger kids.


We left around 11:15, though we could have talked a few more hours. We then had a so-so sleep back at the Tiberio hotel.


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