2025 Italian Lessons, Fri May 09, 2025

Friday Viareggio day 5

Last day of class was pretty good. I remembered a lot from last week and felt confident. Still have a big homework assignment, but I’ll wait until tomorrow to do it.

After class, we walked to xxx Pizzaria for a sit-down lunch this time. The waitress remembered us from two days ago. Kathi had baccala marinated in basil, rosemary, oregano, and olive oil and anchovies. Chris had half of a pizza margarita again. The shop has an interesting pizza oven and they cook the pizzas in a pan on top of a layer of hot coals resulting in a crispy crust. Very tasty.

After lunch, we walked NW through another long park. Beautiful walk in the forest, but attacked by mosquitos here and there. Ended up at the beach (free). Saw a family African man with 4 kids getting his stuff together. Later, after visiting the grocery store and pharmacy we met the guy again on the trail. Talked to him. Third guy from Senegal we’ve met here. He mentioned that Senegalese men here sell trinkets. He came at age 6 for school, married, and now has 4 kids ages 3--8.

Finished our walk back around 5pm, then just hung out and couldn’t find the motivation to go out to do laundry. Later in the evening, we watched Leo and Honey’s wedding video. They had very nice vows.