Simone and I walked to Cantoniera beach after lunch. Simone had arranged to meet Jaba there, and we ran into Gabrielle at the bar too. Simone and I went swimming, and Jaba came to join us on the beach after. Danielle came to join us too, and we played briscola. I’ve played briscola before and it’s actually a simple game, but I couldn’t remember for the life of me how to play the game so I just flipped out my cards on Simone’s cue.
We went to Il Buco for aperitivi after, and I chose to ride on Jaba’s bike instead of Danielle’s cos I felt that Simone’s ass was bigger so he deserved to ride on Danielle’s bigger scooter. I kinda regretted being nice, cos I bounced up and down on Jaba’s bike all the way to Buco… Lucky the distance’s short. The guy at the bar got my order wrong and gave me a frizzantino with campari. Ugh, I dislike campari. So Simone ended up with 2 drinks for himself and ordered another frizzantino for me. I’ve always liked the food that Buco displays on their bar counter. This day, they had a plate of very yummy beef carpaccio.
Upon leaving Buco, I chose to ride on Danielle’s bike this time. Hee… I thought we were going home, then we ended up at the new pub in Fortezza for another drink. I got another frizzantino this time. The glass is a bit smaller, but they filled it to the brim. I took to a bowl with little cubes of foccacia bread this time. The thing I’ve discovered about foccacia., it’s good on its own. Combined with a spread or with prosciutto, it loses its own flavour.
Danielle and Jaba took us home after the pub, and we ran into Franco and Francesco just outside the house. The guys started a big discussion about the palio again, while I took a shower. Patrizia had prepared pan-baked vegetables consisting of potatoes, zucchini and bell peppers. She’d also bought an assortment of frozen prawn balls, octopus balls and so on which she popped into the deep-fryer. Not exactly a big show of her fabulous culinary skills, but it was still a good dinner.
