Arezzo!

 Today my sister headed back to Rome and home tomorrow.  And thus, I move forward in my quest for fluency in italiano, starting with returning to Tuscany and the wee hill town of Arezzo.  It was a day of irritating issues, I must say.  My train, which I waited for for 2 hours, out of Bologna was late.  So late that I missed my connecting train in Florence.  Then I had to figure out how to get to Arezzo as a tag along on some other line.  Ugh.  Quelle wretchedness.  But my landlord was so cool about it all and met me at the station in Arezzo in her blue Fiat 500.   She drove me to the apartment through endless, winding alleys ... up up up the hill.  Churches, cats, piazzas, ancientness.  And then dropped me off at the 17th century building that is my apartment.  Up three flights of stairs.  No air con.  But really, so lovely:

And then I went for a stroll into the town.  Stopped at a fruit and vegetable shop, then a cheese and pasta guy.  It's not much, but it was just what I needed:

Sono stanca!  But tomorrow I begin the exploration!  Ciao, ragazzi!