Lets start with last night. We turned out the lights and went to sleep at 9:00 PM. Didn't wake till 7:30 AM. I guess the Mansels wore us out. Wish Jessicas family could have spent more time with us. I know she would have kept us moving also. Today we will grab a taxi and go to the airport to pick up the rental car for the next 16 days. We make it to the taxi stand and it is packed with people and no taxis. Strike three. Not for us but yet another Italian strike. This time it is a Metro/Subway strike. Hence no taxis since everyone in Rome needs one. And you thought those stories about Italians always striking was folklore. This is our third. Taxi strike when we arrived, train strike in the Cinque Terra and now this one. The backup plan for no taxi was the metro. As we are waiting at the taxi stand, a lady comes up speaking English asking if she can share a ride to the airport. I tell her yes but can't guarantee she will make her 11:30 flight. A short time later her husband shows up in the hire car that was suppose to pick them up at 8:30. He was a half hour late. So I ask if we can share with them and how can they say no.
They get to their terminal and us to the rental car desk. A quick check in and we are off. Only one wrong turn and 6 1/2 hours later we are in Udine Italy for the night. Dinner and sleep and tomorrow after a 3 hour drive we will be in Hallstadt, Austria where the pictures will be much more intetesting.
Picture of old fighter jet for sale.
Orvieto taken from a moving car.
Udine turns out to be more interesting than I thought. It is somewhere between veal scallopine and wiener schnitzel and it reflects the diversity of this region. We have a great dinner after a terrible lunch in Bologna. Probably bad timing on our part. But dinner was great.
Traditional Udine cake with their grappa.
Traditional lady of the night in Udine.
Answer to todays question. "OO duh nay"
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