Snippet of thoughts

We just had our very good friends, Leslie and Guiseppe come over for dinner, and cook it for us. Guiseppe lives in Siracusa, Sicily, and Leslie lives here in Bologna. They had been to the fish market in the day and bought some very fresh anchovies and things similiar to mortan bay bugs. Guiseppie deep fried the anchovies in a wonderful flour and spice mix, and the bugs were quickly cooked in hot water. Hunter loved the bugs especially, and the anchoives were something you could eat all night. All this along with a simple green salad, along with a bottle of prosecco and then a Albana grape white wine. Followed up by some local ice-cream, plain, banana, and bacia.
This is life in italy.
Ewan is on a camp to Assisi overnight, which Hunter went on a couple of weeks ago, and like when Hunter was on it, it is quieter.
Today l caught up with Leslie and Guiseppe at Bar Sole, where you bring your own food, and drink mainly wine, it is from the 1400s, which is a bit older than Watsons Wine Bar
Jayne went to Milan to get her passport renewed, as we need it done before we go to NY in a few weeks.
Jo and Tim Edwards arrive in a few days, and 8 was launched this week, tomorrow the app arrives, so far so good, with some good articles in the Wall Street Journal.
At the moment they are digging up Via Ugo Bassi, and Via Rizzoli, and you can see old Roman walls and stone work, along with the old tram tracks that ran into Piazza Maggiore. Sadly it will be all covered over, but is being recorded for history. We hope the road will be returned to stone work , more than bitumen, but l fear it will not for convienence . Apparently they are going to have a tram run up the road for tourist and local traffic, possabily stopping car traffic, which will be great.
All the work in the studio is coming along well, and l sold two pictures to Francesco Cenerini yesterday of the Francesco Church interior in Bologna, they are going to hang in his office.

Palladio house near Asolo

Asolo street

View from the hotel room

Infront of the hotel in Asolo

Jayne at the hotel in Asolo