Today we focused on cleaning the kitchen from top to bottom. We also started cleaning the living room moving some furniture into the spare room and the cantina, and Paul worked outside to begin clearing some of our land. We also did a half dozen loads of laundry and made four trips to the local market today:

• First by me in the morning to buy more cleaning supplies. My credit card didn’t work and there’s no cell reception in piazza ferruci (the area where the bars and stores are) so I couldn’t call Paul for his card or cash
• Second by me in the morning to get the items I had left behind
• Third by Paul and D who went to get dinner ingredients and a bottle of wine
• Fourth by Paul because we forgot an ingredient 

Good thing the market is only a four minute walk away.

As Paul prepped dinner for us, the boys tried to open a bottle of red wine without an opener. When the cork finally went into the bottle, via hammer and screwdriver, the force was so strong that wine went everywhere — onto the freshly cleaned floor, fridge; walls, and ceiling. We’re so done with cleaning today that we’ll just remove the wine from the ceiling tomorrow!

Paul prepared bucatini alla carbonara with quanciale (thick spaghetti in an egg and cheese sauce with bits of pig cheek.) We didn’t have a pasta strainer and we employed D to manually crush the peppercorns since we didn’t have a grinder. We also don’t have any food storage containers for the leftovers so we’re improvising. I’d say overall first dinner at La Casa Pico was a success!

After dinner D took a walk to the castle, I did two more loads of laundry; and the boys went to the piazza to watch PSG vs Real Madrid.