Day 2, Friday Night

Day 2: Part 2


I'm writing about Friday night on Saturday afternoon, it was so good that it took me this long to figure out what to say. We left the hotel at 8:30 and went to Buca De San'Antonio restaurant inside of the Lucca old city walls. It was beyond extraordinary. It is simply not possible that food this good exists in the United States. We actually had a waiter who spoke very good English which made things easier. Ally had Lamb Chops and I had Pork Chops, that really doesn't sound very fancy, but I speak for both of us when I say that we never had any type of meat that was prepared or tasted as good as what they gave us. I should have taken a photo of the food I think. So... we drank a bottle of wine (only one as we were behaving ourselves) and savored every last drop of our dinner, then at 11:00 they tossed us out onto the street when they closed the restaurant.

We began to walk back to get a taxi when we noticed a cluster of people down a cobbled street, we headed down there and found a little sidewalk cafe which was serving wine and pizza. We stopped by there for a nightcap, the wine was $2.00 per glass, so we had one...then another....then another...then another. It was so peaceful and serene, it was very relaxed. The next thing you know it's 1am and they had to close, our last wine was served in a plastic dixie cup. It was so fitting for us to sitting streetside in Tuscany, drinking Italian wine out of plastic cups. It was very Berks indeed.

The next hour or so was spent wandering the streets, totally lost and confused. No map, no taxi, no clue about where to go. We did safely make it home at about 2 am, which is insanely irresponsible and ridiculous, even by our standards. Did we learn our lesson about what NOT to do in a foreign country? Probably not, but it sure was a lot of fun almost having to sleep on the street. We met a man at the train station who actually had the keys to the train station and let us inside. Why? I don't know, he just hauled out keys and let us in. It was weird. I think Italian men like Ally uite a lot, they don't seem to be able to take their eyes off of her.

We'll, that's the very condensed version of our Friday night. There are more details, some humor, some secrets and some inappropriateness of couse.... All in all it was very Ally N Cristian. Mostly dangerous, very inappropriate, but always fun and exciting.

That's all.....