Thursday. Breakfast on the terrace, then set off for the half-hour trip to Porto San Georgio, a holiday town on the Adriatic . The town was interesting, lots of low-rise hotels and apartments along the beachfront and lots of sunbeds and umbrellas to rent. We had a look around the local market and stopped for coffee then wandered back home. Later, Jan and I set off for nearby Montettone for a ride. We found t to be a sleepy hill town with almost everything shut for (long) lunch except the bar/café on the town square. That was nice so we stopped for a couple of beers and a shared panino and listened to the locals chatting to each other and to passers by. We had a wander around the town, not much to see but some interesting steep streets with views of the hills through them. Then back home for a swim. No snakes but some interesting centipedes dead on the bottom of the pool. Three nice cats belong here, two friendly and one shy and all three a bit wary of being picked up.
Tony took us to a local restaurant for a meal in the evening. We had a lovely meal over in the next valley (about 15 minutes on gravel roads!) at the pizzeria and spaghetteria Mama Rosa. Big outside courtyard with a huge log fire burning in a central pit. Food about three euros a starter and four to six euros for a pizza or pasta. Decent house wine was three euros a litre. Great atmosphere with lots of locals eating there.
