Thursday, September 15, 2011

Sept.4 to 10- Week 12 in Italy

Sunday was yet another Festa- this time we went to Frisanco- a village in the foothills a short distance from Maniago.  We picked Bobby , Fab's parents' renter, up in Maniago on our way. Bobby serves in the US Air Force based in Aviano and had just come home from Afganistan a few weeks ago.

The food again was served out of various kiosks, some serving game meat or sausage and all with palenta. There was also excellent soup and deserts. The price was reasonable E6,00 per plate and a litre of vino was E4,00 as well. Plenty of grappa was also available in many flavours- apple, blueberry- and of course we tried some of everything.

                                    Entering the village of Frisanco

                                         Lot's of little , pedestrian village streets

                                            And lot's of tables set up the accomodate hungry visitors

We also went into a little museum set up to display miniature buildings built by one of the village senior citizens. These were quite intricate and life-like.
This is his rendition of a church.

Any many more examples

We wondered around the village for a couple of hours, eating here, drinking there.

Our gang excluding the picture taker.


Free buses connected Frisanco with a couple of other villages participating in the Festa and we took one of the 5 minute rides to the village of Poffabro where different food was available. We wanted to try their fish. This was also a very scenic village.

We ate and then walked around a bit so that I could take more pictures.


We ended up back in Frisanco for more grappa- I won't mention how I felt the next day- and watched some dancing to the local bands.

That week, Fiuma Veneto, our home village, had an Ostrich Festa much like the Ostrich festival we had gone to in our old home Chandler, Arizona. At this festa there were no live ostriches, and of course no ostrich races etc, only various versions of cooked ostrich.

We took one of Fab's many aunts with us and had some pretty delicious ostrich food. I had scallops of ostrich, Uwe had an ostrich hamburger and everone else had ostrich sausage and of course the required litre of vino.

Adilla, Fab & Nicole

 

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