Last night we went and had dinner in Luino, on the north eastern shore of Lago Maggiore, with a friend that Patch started in the Air Force with. He and his wife have just moved to Italy as well after living in England for many years. How incredible that we both move to Italy at the same time to almost the same place. They are about an hour from where we are currently staying and half an hour from where we will be living in Varese. This is the closest we have lived since they were in Blenheim and we were in Christchurch back in '91.
We had a wonderful evening with Saundy and Lisa. As they had only been in there house two days, and only had electricity for two hours we decided to walk down into the town to have pizza and gelati for dinner. The place was amazingly busy - people everywhere. Lots of families of all ages out together enjoying the warm evening (21 degrees at 11pm), walking, talking and eating gelati. This is life in Italy!
It was especially nice to have an entire evening being able to understand every word being said. It is quite disconcerting to have little idea of what is going on around you conversationally; especially when it involves you. Waiting patiently for a translation half a discussion later is disconnecting. We're getting better at picking up the gist of conversations so that helps. Soon we may even be able to converse ourselves...
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