Lecce

I met Marles and Christina at Gusto Libermma. They were having small plates of food, but I was stuffed from the pasta class. I ordered a drink and heard about their night. They loved the gospel choir--it sounded wonderful. We talked and talked. I found out that Marles was traveling because she just found out that her cancer came back and had metastasized on her lung and lymphnodes. She quit her job as an accountant and has been traveling around Italy for 2 weeks already. She's been to Naples, Pompeii, Bari, Monopoli, and of course Brindisi and Lecce. She has a partner and a daughter at home in Bruges. Not sure what Christina's situation is. She's got 3 young kids and an ex-husband at home
He works for NATO, so my guess is that she's stuck here and needed to get away. She seems very sad.

Anyway, we spent a lot of time talking about food we ate as kids--peanut butter and jelly, all the Hostess products, and Kraft Mac n Cheese. Marles did not try McDonald's until she was an adult. Next thing we know, the place is empty. Yes, we closed down another establishment.

They wanted to go back to the cocktail bar they went to last night--Quanto Basta. We ordered drinks and continued the conversation. It's amazing what people who met less than 24 hours ago will talk about after hanging out all day and having a bunch of drinks. The title of this post comes from our joke that we had several "last" drinks.

All of the sudden, we realized that yes, we were the only ones left. It made the 3rd place we closed down for the day! We paid and headed our separate ways home. We decided we would meet up for breakfast. Christina had a noon train to Ferrara and Marles was headed to Matera.Leggi altro