Tuesday, 10 December 2013

Vincenza, it's got nothing on Verona!


A day trip to Vincenza today which is another old town but there doesn't seem to be a lot to do. There is a tour about architecture so we use that to guide us around the town and have a few gelatos. After a day of walking and knowing that we have to travel to Venice tomorrow we plan to go back to the house, eat pizza and chill out. Our host has other ideas! When Enea picks us up he has a friend with him and instead of going back to the house he drives us to his local pub which is full of his friends. We have a great time listening to Pink Floyd and being treated to drinks and although we don't speak Italian and they don't speak English we manage to communicate and even get told a joke in Italian about the pope in a limo. The joke goes over James' head but he laughs so that he doesn't offend the joke teller, Fabio. After Enea's friends chase each other around with a baseball bat for a bit its time to go back to the house. Enea tells us that Fabio wants to cook for us...pork risotto! Christine doesn't eat pork and doesn't like risotto so we decline and manage to offend Fabio, oops! Enea has to go out to teach a choir so we think that we will be alone for the evening but nope, Fabio and more friends have turned up! We are still set for our quiet night so we say goodnight and leave them to it.
In the morning Enea tells us that when he got back he asked Fabio where we were and he said "I fight with James because he didn't eat my rice!" Heehee!
 We had fun with Enea so hope to return to stay with him again and maybe try some of Fabio's food :-)
On to Venice!

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