... have a first Modica Bassa ice cream of the year to celebrate spring when I was down there this morning. So I stopped off at Bar Ciacera and congratulated the pleasant owner on her memory, for she recalled that amarena [black cherry] is my favourite flavour. Here it is mixed with some stracciatella [chocolate flake ice cream]. Oh, it is good to sit on the terrace of a café on a sunny day in a Mediterranean country and remind myself that I don't have to go back next week, or the week after that, or even next month!
I had two reasons for being in Modica Bassa this morning: one was to collect a supply of doggie treats for Simi [the supermarkets stock dog food but are not very good for biscuits, etc] from the nice pet shop where I always get a couple of extra packs thrown in as a gift and the other was to at last pick up my new glasses. I say "at last" not because of any delay on the part of the optician but because I didn't get around to going for the test earlier. Italy, for all its apparent slowness, can sometimes surprise you because these spectacles were ready in 3 days. OK, there are no "your glasses ready in one hour" stores here but that was still quicker than my Cardiff optician would have been. I have given up on frameless specs, stylish though they are; I find them difficult to keep clean and they used to bounce around like Zebedee in The Magic Roundabout every time I put them down. Now that I can actually see what I am doing here again, I notice that when I upload photos I get a message saying I am using 20 MB of my 1040 MB, or something. Can anybody please explain it and am I supposed to do anything? Do I need to make the photos smaller? What happens when I use all the MB up?
