Normally when I’m away somewhere I try to travel a bit on the weekends, but not this time. I stayed close to home. We had a big company dinner on Friday night. Saturday I just moseyed down to the beach and had a really expensive gnocchi with cheese sauce lunch. The waiter seemed bothered that I was there.
That’s one funny thing about Italy…I’ve been in restaraunts that seem to have 4 waiters for 8 tables and are extremely happy to tell you everthing on the menu, everything that they recommend, everything that was fresh today, etc etc. and I’ve been to restaurants where the staff seems to ignore you and treat you with contempt. It does seem that if you know someone you do get much better service.

Today just drove up to the castle and then up into the mountains a bit to see a famous marble quarry (when they’re selling Italian marble it probably came from this area). It was impressive, but I didn’t go inside the mine. Still a nice drive.
Stayed in and watched some movies on my laptop.

Nice relaxing weekend…