We started driving to Sorrento but missed the highway sough and ended up heading way east, inland. I got off the highway and was started backtracking on local roads. We drove through very crowded, populated flat lands...old apartment building, plots of vegetables crowded into ever space imaginable.
The towns were grimy and grey and suddenly you would come upon a magnificent tint filed of carrots with their feathery heads swaying by the breeze a tractor trailer made in just passing.
There is so much life in these crowded spaces, not city, not country..an in between space. We saw children all bundled up for the cold that was not present, old people watching the traffic jumble by, dogs on errands, plastic flowers, lots of sposa ( wedding related stuff).
We were all starving so I found a little pizzeria and pulled over. We couldn't have a pizza, but the gigantic man that was manning the counter said we could have this long sandwich thing with prosciutto and mozzarella that was put in the oven. The dining room was done up in yellow in orange. Mama sat with her back to use eating her late lunch of artichokes. There was a small terrarium with 2 turtles That K told me were called Sliders.
The sandwich was delicious.
The pizza dough for that night was being made and slammed down onto the marble counted as we left. I would love to be there when the place is packed. It must be very loud and very happy.
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