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Walked down the hill to the supermercato…closed for inventory???….walked back up the hill for a cappuccino in Cafe Poliziano…sun shining so took a cup of tea onto my terrace and met neighbours and invited them to share my terrace which soon followed by an invitation to join these 3 lovely Canadian ladies for lunch at Il Grotto. Sat in the courtyard and had some divine Italian food..duck liver on Italian toast followed by hand rolled pasta with quail and prunes.   Lovely wines and the girls were great fun. Did a little wine tasting on the way back up the hill and bought my first bottle of Vino il Nobile Montepulciano which is the red wine this place is famous for..12 euro a bottle was pretty good for such a beautiful wine! 7pm for welcome drinks at the Italian language school Il Sasso where I am starting some lessons tomorrow morning. Welcomed in Italian and no one seemed to speak or want to speak any English so I guess its immersion from the start…not sure how I will go???? I did meet John McCarthy QC the Australian Amassador to the Holy See in Rome…i.e the Vatican and Pope!!! He was recently appointed by Julia Gillard and replaced Tim Fischer but has only 100 words of Italian! Should be an interesting week!