Liberazione!

Today was Italy's liberation day from the Nazis. We went up into Fiesole to go to Mass and we see this group of people in red scarfs and think " Oh, we are going to miss the communist parade while we are in church" not really the case. 1) no parade, 2) no communists. they were a choir and there was band. They were playing patriotic type marches and people seemed to know the words. It was pretty interesting.
Mass was very interesting. The cool thing about being Catholic is that every where you go its the same so even if you don't know the language you can still follow along. The priest was pretty un-emotive except for his eyebrows that seemed to have a life of their own. Very amusing. Here is the question of the day I need my friends back home to help me answer. What would make a nun late to mass? Picking up her habit from the dry cleaners? Its not like she was eating breakfast. Got lost in prayer? Who knows but it amused us.
Then we got some tasty lunch at a restaurant that the owner of the B&B we are staying at recommended. I had some soup that was largely tomatoes and bread. James had some pasta in sausage sauce. then some fried zucchini flowers that were only ok. we wandered around a bit and then headed home for some napping. when I finally woke up we took a route to San Domenico that has what the map calls "breathtaking views". The view out my window right now is breath taking. This whole place is breathtaking. Its hard to think it could get any better. It was a nice walk with lovely views. We stopped in San Domenico for some pizza and gelato and coffee. all tasty! James likes the strawberry gelato, that I have to admit is pretty good but I've always been a lemon fan and its really good here. then we went to the San Domenico church and then walked down a road to a church called Badia Fiesolana. It was a lovely church on the outside. Its facade is in white and green marble, typical of the Tuscan Romanesque. It was built a lot earlier than the other churches we have been to. I can only comment on the outside because they wouldn't let us inside. Maybe we will go back and see the inside. When we got gelato we also picked up some croissants for later. I'm looking forward to them because for whatever reason our hostess has stopped serving them at breakfast. :( my life is so hard! here is a picture of the church with the pretty marble facade.



And here is a picture of a typical dinner for us. Bread, 2 kinds of cheese(belle paese and smoked provolone), olives and some sort of fruit. this night it was plums! yummy! We sit in our room and pig out. so good. tonight is the first night since we got here that we went out for dinner because the grocery store is closed on Sunday. Ciao my friends!