After dropping Loreta at home and having a coffee with her we picked up the children from their passeggiata and arrived at Zio Nino's & Zia Rita's at about 7pm. In Italy this is still a very sunny time of the day. Nino was out the back picking ripe figs off his trees. They were delicious and big. The views and colours in the afternoon were great. They have a great spot.
A lovely BBQ was had and the kids played soccer in the yard with Sandro, Cassandra's little boy. Cassandra is Nino and Rita's daughter by the way. Nino & Rita have a big room at the entrance level of the house for entertaining in. It is almost like a hall and Nino has decorated it with all sorts of artifacts he has found in his travels. The evening was finished with large helpings to the freshly picked figs. There was a purple variety and a smaller, sweeter green variety.
On the way home at about midnight, Adri, myself and Kailin dropped into the Celano main piazza to see the end of a jazz concert in the concert hall and to observe the decorations that were being prepared for Sunday morning. It looked like they would be working on it all night! The project seemed to be modelled on the decorative festival artwork of some towns in Perugia where they decorate the piazza pavements with pictures made from the petals of flowers. Apparently it was the first time Celano had done anything like this and they were using painted wood shavings instead of flower petals. Nonetheless it promised to be quite effective. The piazza promised to be a very colourful place in the morning.
Fred
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