Sunday, May 23rd: Today is our last full day in Tuscany. Wow…we have enjoyed “staying put” in one spot!!! We have made new friends, worldwide, and made some town people very happy for our business! We strolled into our favorite coffee bar and we decided to have our coffee out of the sidewalk, where we could enjoy a view of the bicyclists that were racing through town. The specialty grocers, next door to the coffee bar, brought out their colorful banners, and were selling porchetta (think of a whole pig, gutted, salted heavily, sewn together, and then deep fried), special cheeses, breads, olives, and an assortment of other delights…the shop owner was Sicilian, and was VERY boisterous!!! He had us laughing, sampling his specialties, and he even gave us a bottle of Sicilian wine for being
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