April 18, 2017
Well, one last Italian pizza for this trip. One last gelato. And perhaps the last good deed for this trip.
We went back to the pizza place where we grabbed a couple of slices on Friday night, and ordered Margaretta pizza – yummy tomato sauce and cheese. The proprietor understood that we did not want a kilogram of pizza and said we could buy it by the slice. One bottle of water and 8 slices. 5 euro.
Then we went on down the street to where we had last purchased gelato, and I had a cone of coffee flavor and she had chocolate. 4 euro.
Heading back to the flat, because it suddenly turned cold, we noticed a line of coax cable hanging from somewhere up above (do they have Kodi in heaven) and it was tangled in the front license plate of a parked car. The line was being jiggled by hands out of sight, but no progress was being made. I stepped between two parked cars and looked up. A face peered over the edge, and hands were trying to free the cable. I pulled it out from where it was held fast, and let it slide through my fingers as it was pulled up. When the last of the cable went over the top of the balcony railing, the head reappeared and waved me a thank you. Priceless.
We are mostly packed. Bonnie fixed one suitcase for the baggage hold, and the other will be completed with today’s clothes when we chuck them off for pajamas later this evening, and our toilet kits in the morning.
Our driver comes at noon to take us to Leonardo da Vinci Airport for an 8 p.m. flight to Lisbon. A driver will meet us in Lisbon to take us to a hotel (for our 12 hour layover) and then take us back to the airport Thursday morning where we’ll fly to Miami. A third driver will take us to Fort Lauderdale where we will reclaim “Frank,” and head north. We’ll stop for the night and return to Augusta on Friday. It’s been a good trip and we’ve had a good time, but we are ready to be back at 233 (if someone will stop by the house Thursday afternoon or Friday morning and set the A/C at 75 degrees please – it is 57 here and I turned the radiators on).
I shall now turn the keyboard over to Bonnie for the last installment from Westerdam 2017.
TTFN
Well, our day started whenever we woke up. I sat the table for breakfast, got out bread for his toast, put pans of water on to boil so I can do dishes, got out his egg, butter and jelly and sliced a piece of sweet cake for me. I know. Don’t you love run on sentences. I also made some oj for me. He made his cup of coffee and then I plugged in the panini maker to do his toast. After he fried his egg, we sat down to consume our breakfast. After that he showered while I did dishes. Then, I showered. We had to go to the Pam store before venturing out. We got another 30cent large bottle of water and a couple of cokes for tonight. We wanted the water to get cold so we purchased the drinks and walked back to the apartment. I went upstairs to put them in fridge because I can open the door and he can not.
Then, we headed off in the direction of the train station which is the way we had to go to get to the church of the Japanese martyrs. As we walked down the sidewalk I spied a euro penny in the street. I used my cane to pull it closer because the cars were speeding by. Yes I got my cent. It looked like rain as we walked back to the apartment from the Pam store, so I had picked up our umbrellas. It took about 25 minutes to get to the church and low and behold the doors were open. As all the churches we have visited on this trip, it was very ornate and beautiful. It had high domed ceilings and beautiful art works. The lilies from Easter were still in the church and you were greeted with a wonderful fragrance when you entered. He took pictures and I sat and enjoyed the quiet. I put a euro in their poor box. I always try to do that when we visit and take pictures.
After we came out of the church and started back, it began to rain. So we put up our umbrellas and walked on. It was not a hard rain just light rain. We put them down before we got to the café for lunch. After the church before the café, we did a little bit of shopping in a couple of stores. We stopped in the book store again and they actually had some books in English. They had a group books to help teach kids to read that were interesting. They had books on Sherlock Holmes, Phantom of the Opera, Jane Eyer, Scarlet letter and lots more. We stopped in a store and bought a purse I had seen and liked. Then, went to a small toy store called Maga Mogo. Picked up some stuff for grand for the grand kids.
Then we headed to the café where I ordered a chicken breast sandwich with lettuce, tomatoes and mayo. He had a double cheeseburger. We had fries, onion rings, pepper rings (deep fried lightly) and mozzarella sticks. The chicken turned out to be processed chicken, so I ate the bread , tomatoes and lettuce. Very tasty. The FF were very hot and very good. So were the other things. After lunch we enjoyed a small cup of gelato. Then, back to the apartment
It was about 1 and nap time. We napped then I worked on my suitcase. I swapped purses so I could carry my new one home. Then, I sat down to write all my post cards, which I plan to mail from Ft Lauderdale. I figure I will still beat them home. I had thought about mailing them from here but it is really expensive and we haven’t seen a post office anywhere.
Well, after that it was almost 6 and the pizza place we wanted to eat at was supposed to be open. So we put on shoes and jackets and headed out. It was 6:30 when we got there and it looked like they had just started. We sat down and ordered our pizza and a bottle of water. It took about 10 minutes or so and it was ready. It was very good and very inexpensive. I loved every bite. Then, back for more gelato. By the time we started to walk home the wind had picked up and it was very cold.
When we got into the building and got to the stairs a young couple was standing at the elevator with their suitcases. We walked on up the stairs. In a few minutes we heard them arrive on our floor and they started knocking on the door across from us. No one answered even though they knocked for several minutes. Then, they knocked on ours. We did not answer. They did not speak English and we don’t speak Italian. They had tried to talk to us when we met them at the elevator. They left. Several minutes later someone was ringing our doorbell from outside. We didn’t answer that either. If it would have been our landlord, he has a key. So someone was ringing the bells trying to get someone to leave them into the building.
Well, it is time for nightclothes, some cards, (don’t ask) and a drink before taking the nighttime pills and heading to bed. It will be a long 2 days ahead traveling. I will try to be patient. Our driver should be here at noon and off we will go.
Love you all. See you soon. Hugs and kisses to everybody. Hope everybody likes their postcards they are all different. There are 13 in all.
Mom, Granny and Bonnie
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