Wine tastes better when its free!

So being pregnant finally has some perks! Scott wants me to start from the begining, so this evening we decided we'd go for a nice meal. Scott fancied this place reccommended in our guide book, Ristorante Nanà. Its run by 47 members of the same family and its a 10 table restaurant. We walked about 20 minutes out of town to this place, which from the outside didn't look like much, then inside looked like one of the most upmarket places I've ever been! People say you can spot an authentic restaurant when the menu's are only in the local language, but its a step better when the waiter is aswell! The guy who served us was lovely, but spoke no english, and the menu was deciphered with a lot of guesswork on our part! As he led us to our seats he offered us drinks, then brought over a 2004 pinot grigio and poured us glasses. As he started to open the bottle he asked is this OK - I muttered yes, then looked to Dani (our linguistic master for the trip) and said to ask how much it was. To which he replied "no problem... its only 2000 euros a glass" laughed said no problem. He then asked about the baby and said congratulations or something along those lines. Bearing in mind this was in italian so im making an educated guess. We ordered our food and spent the rest of the meal joking about the cost of this wine, (and worrying about which one of us would go to prison if we didn't have enough money to pay) - unsure whether no problem meant it was on the house (which admittedly seemed unlikely) or was a way to avoid telling us the cost of two extortoinate glasses of wine. Given that this was in Dani's words - "the best wine I've ever tasted" im no wine connessiour mind you but it was better than anything ive ever had, and this comes after a particularly nice Pinot Grigio drank from a plastic bottle in a train station on our last trip - we feel these concerns were justified.

After our main course it was well gone time to leave and catch the bus. So we asked for the bill and held our breath. It came, and not only had the wine been free, but the bill came to a total of only €50, not bad given that our two courses each came to €40 and we were expecting a service charge each. We paid with pleasure and happily ran off to our bus!

Other than this since our last blog we have been in and around perugia eating far too much ice cream, seen an old well, taken a half hour walk out to the old town wall to find the museum closed half an hour before our guide book said, went to a church with one room and one fresco - apparently by Raphael, and to the Cathedral, which had a few more Frescos but still only one room and generally lazed around the hostel a lot. A good start to the Holiday, me and Dani both agree.

So even though the weather sucks, we've still been having a great time!

Hope all is well back home, weather is better there than here according to the BBC!

Scott, Dani and Boom Boom

Song of the Moment: UB40 - [White White] Wine