Woke up early and dark. By the time the daylight came up the view out of the window was one of fog fog and more fog - like it had all been a dream and someone had stolen Tuscany away from us. As the sun came up and burnt away the fog, little islands of hills and buildings arose like a surreal game of SimCity and waved at us through the haze.
A cold day today, below freezing overnight. In to work fairly early and trying to extract as much from my boss whilst she's here (back to US tomorrow). Long day, 12 hours, punctuated by some lovely pasta and zucchini, a meeting with my Italian teacher and I missed the ex-pats trip to the 14th century hospital in Siena, deciding to have a 4 hour meeting with my boss and interim instead. Discovered that the building that we are in is "The Master's House" of the main villa. I say "discovered" - this involved reading the sign by the door. Clever hover.
Back home late and on with the first of the cheap wine testings! I've decided to try all the cheapish wines (nothing over 2 EURO) in the supermarket to see if any of them are any good. We bought four different ones the other night - two were 1 EURO, one was 1.90 and one 1.99.
The first is a sparkling red (!!!!) - a lambrusco at a mighty cost of EURO 1.90. Strength by volume 8%. Well I can report that it went down very well. Rather like a sparkling grape juice. It was fantastic - didn't really taste like wine, but I enjoyed it a lot!
Nothing much else happened, didn't get home much before 9pm, and need to be in by 8 and fasted to have a medical, with a blood test!
Ciao!
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