We had no plan for today so we had a late breakfast and when we finished we had a chat with Janet and Joe Lenzo, an Australian couple from Melbourne that we met at the cooking class on Tuesday. This is the certificate we all received for our effort.
They were planning to drive to the town of Castelnuovo di Garfagnana to find a unique restaurant called the "Old Mill" in Italian. They kindly invited us to join them so we met them in the lobby at 11:30 and they used their Tom Tom to locate the town. Joe found a parking spot in the centre of town and we took off in separate directions to look around. It was the first restaurant we came to. The church and the tower were a feature of the town as usual.
Not long after we bumped into Janet and Joe again so we found our way back to the Vecchio Moulino and ordered lunch using signs and simple words: cheese, meat, salad. We sat at a large table and received the usual big basket of bread varieties. They placed three huge boards before us with a wide selection of cold meat and cheese and a tomato salad. We struggled to do justice to the amount of food but we downed about three quarters of it and the manager told us that all the food was sourced locally. It was an enjoyable and educational meal. No dinner for us tonight.
In France we found food shops of many types ending in -iere. In Italy the ending is -eria.
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