Tuesday 29th Sep
Another date with the priest for family history research. He has been a lot more cooperative than the last incumbent and we had a good run today from 10am to 4pm... I had to leave at 2.30pm for hair appointment...(can't be doing without a root touchup in the land of chic!) He probably thought we were mad working straight through - that is not the Italian way in Italy - we certainly heard him having his lunch and then retiring upstairs for his siesta!
A Canadian has booked into our Arsiero Hotel, left Italy (Piovene - over the road from Caltrano) as an 18 year old in 1966. Funny guy, a strangled Canadian accent with old country overtones, also quite a strange phrasing technique. We were enjoying our predinner campari when he stopped for a chat.
He was talking about his wife - back home in Canada - and described her as a plain sort of woman... and then he looked at Frank and said...like your wife.......me!!! Of course Frank barely kept from chortling, the bugger.
Blog is record of travels to eclectic choice of northern Italian destinations - as determined by "he who must be obeyed" I'm just along for the ride!
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