Island Hopping 2024: Giarratana, another Rain-Out

Friday April 19: Weather remains unseasonably cold which we can easily handle and pouring rain which we would prefer to avoid.  

So, today’s events were breakfast at the Café which is equally as enjoyable for our morning coffee as it is for hanging out with the friends we have made.  We have reached the status of regulars now and the people that we continue to run into have taken an interest in us and where we come from.  Much of the time we don’t know what each other is saying, but we carry on conversations nonetheless.

These pasticcini keep drawing us back

Somebody must have said something funny

After doing household chores and preparing for guests who are soon to join us, we spent the rest of the day relaxing in our AirBnB.  Later in the evening we ate again at the Eventi Devini, where here, too, we are becoming regulars. We know we are regulars because when we walk in they start making the Negronis for us without us saying a word.  Tonight Sandy and I had Pinse (sort of a pizza).  The crust of  a pinse differs from our pizzas back in the U.S. (and here) in the that it is light as a cloud.  Sandy had a Caprese pinse with mozzarella cheese, basil, and tomatoes.  I had a cavelo pinse, horse meat.  I have had horse meat before in France and did not overly enjoy it.  Here, on the pinse with cheese and onions it was delizioso.

This is our combination waiter and Negroni maker.  We are talking as usual through Google Translate

Sandy with her Pinse Caprese

The crust is so light that they have to put the toppings on to keep it from floating away

Pinse Cavallo