Ahhhh!

Sitting down with my feet up for a few minutes. It is 3pm here.

Breakfast included croissant from the bakery. Cleaned up and set off with Liz for a tour of a couple of old churches and La Grancia.

La Grancia is a complex at the edge of the village where the town "royalty" lived centuries ago. As big landowners, primary crops were grapes and olives. Workers would have had plots where they grew other foods for their famil and La Grancia.

The family gave or sold the property to an order of monks at some point and they continued with grapes and olives as well as running a hostelry for travelers.

La Grancia is now owned privately by a family that has had it for several generations. They still grow grapes and make wine and grow olives for olive oil. Recently, four small apartments that can be rented by the week, have been added to augment the agricultural income. The owner, Augusto, works in Rome to support his "money pit".

We walked up the Castello, saw a lovely ginger cat and the old white cat that is always there. Dotore is more senile than last year, still king of the Castello if one counts his property assets. Sad to see him otherwise debilitated.

For lunch I served leftovers from Roberto's, a tossed salad, chhese and bread and figs that Ivo picked in the garden just before lunch. He also picked three delicious cucumbers that I just sliced for eating plain. All of this yumminess rounded out with store bought cookies. The favorite is the crispy wafers with hazelnut filling. Beats the chocolate even.

Now, most are knitting.The kitty is laying in the warm garden.