today was going to be another take-it-easy day. pottered about the house in the morning, taking a closer look at the reading material left behind, largely a collection of nora roberts/sidney sheldon romances/potboilers along with iain pears’ theme-appropriate medieval mystery ‘an instance of the fingerpost.’
headed out around noon. found castello nipozzano closed. decided to try l’acquacheta again. closed as well. decided to head back to the mall for lunch. checked out the nicely-fonted Café, which turned out to be the canteen for spiffily turned-out sales assistants. had a slice of cappriciosa pizza and a tuna salad at the cafeteria.
thought that we’d head into incisa to check out some malls and fell for the well sign-posted cuoierie fiorentina outlet malls. E pronounced it to be the italian version of a friendship store. found out that cuoierie fiorentina was actually a brand. then we left. came across the d&g outlet, which, not unexpectedly, remained too rich and outré for my blood. salvaged the day by going to a new coop, the one in pontassieve.


took a passeggiata after dinner along the gravel path that led to the paved road.