After a good night we woke up and realized how beautiful it was around us. This part of Italy has an amazing countryside anyway, but in spring it looks and smells even better.
Every day I enjoyed the look of the driveway, perfectly shaded by olive trees, like a painting.
I could have made hundreds of pictures just of the flowers and plants, here are two samples.
Unfortunately I cannot show the scent here, so please believe me it was more than lovely :-)
Since it was a rather rural part of the area wild animals were always present. This was a 4 meters long alligator on the front porch ;-)
After admiring the surroundings the very next thing was to go grocery shopping because the fridge was empty. So after a short journey through the crazy serpentines of the neighborhood we came across a supermarket. Our rule was: strictly typical Italian food.
So these things went into the basket:
- tomatoes
- pasta
- rice (for Risotto)
- olive oil (a litre)
- bread
- bacon
- different kinds of cheese (including very fresh Mozarella, made in this region)
- fresh garlic
- Italian coffee and a strange looking Italian Espresso maker, works great!!!!!
- fig jam, which is another famous product made locally in the Cilento region and is delicious on old cheese....
- Peroni beer (Birra)...naturally ;-)
- a huge bottle of red wine made in the neighborhood...wasn't bad, well, actually not 100 Parker points :-)
The famous Cilento fig jam, a great taste combined with cheese or simply with butter toast.
The fresh tomatoes were probably the tastiest tomatoes I ever had. These were from the supermarket, later we bought veggies at the local produce market as well.
