Tuesday 11 October 2011
A relatively lazy day, that got downright exciting by night.
Charles camped out at the beach for a couple of hours, lounging on a small float boat sitting on the sand and listening to the surf roll in, with endless blue and the city of Manfredonia in the distance. No people to speak of, no ships, just blessed sea and sky. Huge white clouds that eventually burned away, leaving it actually warm with a nice breeze. Nicole drew and walked around and swung on the swings and put up four blog pages, yay! Dian painted rocks she had found while beachcombing, and (by choice) spent the first half of the day in silence. In the afternoon Nicole and Dian rehearsed some songs for their upcoming gig in the village of Piegaro. They decided to give it a trial run, and after ordering the most exotic pizza
on the menu, strolled into the kitchen and serenaded the chef Matteo as he rolled and tossed,with "Funiculi, Funicula" and "Santa Lucia finishing with the very American "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy/Route 66"combo. He was so delighted he not only treated us to our "strong" pizza, he let us name it! We decided to call it "Olive Me," a play on a song Dian has always performed (maybe Charles' very favorite -- he fell in love to that song), and with not much English being understood, they got the joke (and by the next day newly printed menus listed it -- what an honor, to get to name a pizza in Italy!!).
A relatively lazy day, that got downright exciting by night.
Charles camped out at the beach for a couple of hours, lounging on a small float boat sitting on the sand and listening to the surf roll in, with endless blue and the city of Manfredonia in the distance. No people to speak of, no ships, just blessed sea and sky. Huge white clouds that eventually burned away, leaving it actually warm with a nice breeze. Nicole drew and walked around and swung on the swings and put up four blog pages, yay! Dian painted rocks she had found while beachcombing, and (by choice) spent the first half of the day in silence. In the afternoon Nicole and Dian rehearsed some songs for their upcoming gig in the village of Piegaro. They decided to give it a trial run, and after ordering the most exotic pizza
on the menu, strolled into the kitchen and serenaded the chef Matteo as he rolled and tossed,with "Funiculi, Funicula" and "Santa Lucia finishing with the very American "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy/Route 66"combo. He was so delighted he not only treated us to our "strong" pizza, he let us name it! We decided to call it "Olive Me," a play on a song Dian has always performed (maybe Charles' very favorite -- he fell in love to that song), and with not much English being understood, they got the joke (and by the next day newly printed menus listed it -- what an honor, to get to name a pizza in Italy!!).
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