Fabrizio, our host at his family’s B&B, gave us a lovely breakfast of croissants from Dentoni (the Pasticceria we ate every meal at yesterday), cereal, watermelon, a white melon that is a cross between honeydew and cucumber, gigantic figs from their garden, and prickly pear fruit from their garden. We spent over an hour talking with Fabrizio, and it turns out he played (American) football for one of Italy’s teams years ago. I say this in the nicest way: he’s a big dude. Very sweet, and very interested in American sports. He wanted us to speak English with him so he could practice, but we want him to speak Italian so Paul can practice! He said he misses playing football and gets motivated listening to music. He showed Big D a video on his phone that D had seen before — it’s sack after sack. They bonded over the love of tackling.

He then escorted us to the beach club since we’re using his two chairs and one umbrella for the day. It’s a very desirable location in the front half of the beach club. To put it in perspective, there are 12 rows of at least 20 umbrellas with at least two chairs per umbrella, so when it’s at capacity this club has 500+ people. This isn’t the only club on the beach, so when I told you the beach was packed but doesn’t feel crowded, I wasn’t kidding! They’ve had a DJ playing music all morning, staffers coordinating dance lessons and games in the water, and an elementary school aged camp. The afternoon was quiet, but the music started up again around 5pm.

Paul walked up the path that takes you to the top of the cliff so he could see the “two sisters” rock formation from above.

We got pizza slices from the beach club for lunch and the kids had Oreo cookie ice cream sandwiches. Big D thought he was ordering a frozen coffee drink in the late afternoon but ended up with ice coffee. He also has his first espresso the other night and is now very into the effects of caffeine.

Dinner tonight was at Soul Food. Don’t let the name fool you — the soul food is Italian seafood. We started with the raw and smoked appetizer plate which included shrimp over a bed of eggplant, tuna and potatoes, smoked langoustines and shrimp, and some type of raw fish over local cheese. It was very fishy but Paul and I enjoyed it. Big D had mezzo pacchero (pasta with pesto, tuna and roasted tomatoes), Miss M had a salad, Paul had spaghetti with clams, mussels, sepia and calamari, and I had fried calamari.

There was another performance at the stage near the beach tonight. This time: 25 operatic singers with a piano accompanist. More gelato for Paul and the kids from Dentoni and we called it a night!