Sunday Adventure

We had booked Sun night in another Agriturismo - but realized we were too far from Rome. So we had lunch there....another stone farmhouse...didn't see the rooms....

Cavatelli with funghi porcini - not a lot of them and sliced very thin - but the flavor intense and woodsy.

Quail with tasty polenta, maybe some tomato cooked into it.

Then onto a Roman site whre they were having a cheese tasting - caciocavallo from cow's milk and pecorino mezza-stagionata - sheeps milk - half aged - so still a little soft, but with a bite

To Altilia - a small Roman town Altilia, 1st C. b.c. - mobbed with people we didn't stay long there is a theater and two very intact gates. There were people living there into the Middle Ages and there are some buildings from that era.

Then a stab in the dark - looking for a place to stay that was closer to Rome - without our big fat Agriturismo book - WE FOUND SOMETHING ON THE IPAD!!! In Cassino, we drove thru a barnyard to a beautifiul country restuarat - but alas! they were not serving Sunday dinner, the lunch crowd still hanging around at 6:00. This is pretty much the point of agriturismos - a good meal at a reasonable price - half pension.

After a look at the room, overlooking the barnyard - really beds were pretty much cots - and reading lights???? HA! we decided we would hoof it back into Rome.