Thought it was about time i caught up with everything over the weekend. As you might have read in the last post Debs turned up on thursday night safely and got to the boat despite my driving.
She was then able to acclimatise gently (lie in!!) whilst Roger, Lisa and I carried on with work on the window frames. In the evening we went out to the Muleterria restaurant ( excuse my spelling ). This was once the place that fed the Mule drivers in the old city in San Remo and is still run by a little old lady who might possibly still date from that time!!. It is quirky, fun, and great value with only house wine from the barrel and dinner consisting of pasta, pasta or pasta with an assortment of sauces and maybe some olives or toasted things to start with. We had a superb evening and very happily rolled back to the boat...
Saturday was a free day for me so Debs and I set off to explore the market and the old town, whilst stopping off for coffee, Gelatos and then more shopping.....
As you can see from the photos we made it to the top of the old town and really had a great day... This was topped off by a magical mystery tour in the evening with Roger and Lisa to find "The mushroom restaurant?"
With direction that go "drive to taggia then turn left and head inland up the valley till you see the mushroom!, you really can't miss it.."
We set off and sure enough if you follow the instructions and avoid the crashed cars (some other time!) eventually if you keep going you will find a giant concrete mushroom (about 20' high) just past the giant snail!!! (is this starting to sound like the magic roundabout yet).
If you cross the small bridge and avoid the agitated italian lady (from the kitchen) in the car park you WILL FIND THE MUSHROOM RESTAURANT!!!!
Called "Cam Erre" it think....
We had a superb meal consisting of 10 courses mostly involving mushrooms of some sort... mushroom rissotto, mushroom with pasta, mushrooms and carpaccio, etc etc and followed (for me ) with Tiramisu .....
served (you won't believe it) in a large enamel potty, commode, chamber pot complete with toilet roll.
It would probably have served 4 or 5 but i did my best and finished it.....
This was then followed by lemonchello and grappa (they just brought a bottle of each and put it on the table!!!
As you can imagine the next morning we woke up late......
An then went off to visit Bussana Vechia. This town was destroyed in the late 1800's and the locals were so fearful that a new town of Bussana was built in the valley below. In the 1960's the original destroyed town was taken over by hippie~travelers and rebuilt only using materials found..... as you can imagine the architecture is quaintly ramshackle.....in fact it was not until the late 80's that electricity was finally laid on in the town.....
After this we drove on up into the near mountains for a bit of a walk..... a bit of nice fresh air and lots of low cloud.....sadly not the views back to San Remo we were hoping for but it was probably best that we got the exercise to work off the excesses of the weekend...... Then it was back tot the boat for a quick drink and then a game of cards before a fantastic dinner of Courgette pasta and profiteroles (cooked by Lisa) and then we all settled down to watch a movie......
Monday i had to carry on with the work so Debs was left to enjoy the last of her brief holiday, walking in the old town and generally lazing on the boat or in the sunshine before sadly i had to drive to the airport for her flight home.........
Boo Hoooo.......
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