'We're here! Went to bed about 11 PM after an ungodly (probably countable if I tried to figure it out) number of hours awake or snoozing on the plane and walking around airports, standing in lines, although in Italy, lines take on a round, mobbish shape, pressing forward. We stumbled on a great restaurant last night and ate a huge salad plus polpetti (round shapped, deep fried, meatball-like bits) one set made of egg plant and zucchini, the other veal. We also treated ourselves to some red wine. Had great fun talking to the waiters and other people eating there. When we left, they gave us a little gift, two terra cotta bowls for cooking maccaroni in that say the name of the restaurant, Spaccanapoli. Last time we were in Italy, Anita and I ate at
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