Life is Good!!

I have some very bad news for Tom.  Domenico’s Enoteca has a new sign hanging outside of it and we had someone translate it for us.  “Proxima apperatura Noveau Guestione,” apparently it means, “Next Opening New Ownership.”  So it seems that Tom drank and ate them out of food, drink and a business. Sorry we missed it Tom, because so far all the other places you recommended have been outstanding. 

Tonight we experienced Bolle in Pentola for the 7 item antipasti and it was great.  It consisted of a bulgur wheat, mussels and calamari salad, spinach stuffed mussels and spinach stuffed sardines, a potato cake with a piece of white fish on top, fried polenta balls (as Carlos called these Heaven on a plate), cheese stuffed calamari and raw shrimp (the shrimp here are different from our shrimp at home, they are very sweet)   We would have stayed for dinner but Angel had prepared a plate of antipasto prior to leaving the hotel room of three local cheeses, olives, the biggest capers known to man and a bottle of Chianti.  (Life is good!)  So after the second course of antipasti we cried uncle and fulfilled our nightly ritual of gelato.

Still no dinner invitation from that Armani dude, he must not know we are here in La Spezia.

I know I mentioned the apparent lack of Health Department inspectors (due to all the dogs in restaurants) well they don’t  have social services lurking around every corner here either.   You see mothers and grandmothers smacking their kids all the time and disciplining them, the other day I saw a grandma yelling up a storm and smacking her grandson in the head.   No one paid any attention to her or tried to interfere.  They just kept walking by like that was normal behavior.  It’s good to see good old fashion discipline still exists in some parts of the world, no time outs or counting to three here.