Day: July 1, 2015

• If you stay in a villa built in the 1700’s, you will experience low to non-existent water pressure, and slow to non-existent internet.
• If the owner of said villa encourages swallows to live in the barn below, swallows will occasionally fly in your living room window and out your kitchen window.
• Since swallows fly into the house, that means there are no screens on the windows, which means mosquitos…..
• And finally, as cliche as it sounds, one morning at the bakery, I had my ass grabbed by an Italian male*

*toddler running around

Last day at the villa. Went to the Pistoia Wednesday morning market – everything you can imagine was for sale in tents along pedestrian traffic only streets. Came back for a little swimming, before a pizza dinner and then back to Pistoia to try and crash a Mumford & Sons concert. Bought a 3 eruo bottle of beer and the proprietor of a cooking specialty shop let us sit out back where we could here the music echoing off the buildings in the plaza. She even provided cups and seat cushions. Quite the deal as the tickets were selling for 46 euro each!