Mercure Grande Albergo Internazionale
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Italia , 18$/Gal Avgas
... with EU money but the Airport is closed waiting for permission form the Goverment to open it.
When I asked an mechanic how the Airplane he was working on got here, he told me "special permission and we only fly when nobody is around " viva Italia".
end of October , it is getting cold in Switzerland and it is time to go to Florida to sell my House there and catch up with everything there while my SX is parked in Altenrhein LSZA Switzerland.
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Farewell Italia
... payment was not successful ........ Well we have tickets and we will be boarding. REPORT ..... Pegasus is fantastic - we are in exit row - preordered meal very satisfactory and only a two hour ten minute flight - most impressed. My lasting memories of Puglia will be the olive trees, the trullis, the Sunday cakes, great coffee, exceptionally good cheap wine, the harvesting of the almonds and grapes, the old towns beautifully perched on the ...
Wine - start to almost finish
... that squashed those grapes was enough for me to say NO. Then there was the clean up and of course we all ended up wet and covered in grape refuse - was fun. Benadetta arrived with lunch which was splendid crumbed and fried ricotta, lasagne, roasted peppers and caponata - red wine of course. Franco usually takes the grapes to a commercial wine stores in San Vito but since the tax has been imposed on the squashed grape remnants which are used to make grappa - they have shut up shop ...
Lecce
... up at the fabulous buildings and monuments. The churches are ornate both inside and out. Lecce dates back to the time of the Trojan Wars then the city was conquered by the Romans in the 3rd century BC. Lecce was governed by the Byzantine Empire from 549 AD for 5 centuries. The Normas conquered the city in the 11th century and Lecce began to grow as a commercial center for the area. Roman Amphitheater ...
The long lunch
... We are amazed by the number of courses consumed here - we are just so used to one dinner. But it was a joy and it ended up in a ten hour lunch - I like a long lunch. But as the evening progressed so did the intrigue, conversation, repartee, music, dancing, drinking and ended with a few surprising relevations - our secret. Roger drove home, sal, bill and I walked the few kms thinking it would be safer - well we made it. It really was the most wonderful day - one to ...