Geo: 45.7446, 11.6555We had arranged to meet Nonno and Nonna in the little village of Santa Catarina di Luisana, in the hills behind Bassano, as this is the village that Nonna's mother and father came from. We arrived, after a very pretty drive from Marostica, to be met by a woman we had never seen before, saying "you must be Rita's son – I'll give you my car park!" No doubting that it is a small town – she turned out to be Anna, the wife of Rita's cousin.We waited for a while in the car park, looking at the war memorial which has dozens of Steven's fore-bearers on it, and only a few dozen names in total. Then, Rita and Elio arrived – they had been to the bank where the ATM swallowed Rita's card
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