Tomorrow (August 15th) is a huge holiday in Italy. Not clear exactly what it is all about. No one seems to know but
all businesses are closed and everyone has a party. So tonight I went to Tortorella for a festival. They had the same
live band there as was at the wedding; playing all sorts of music including of course American music with English words.
This is really strange to me to be here where almost no one speaks any English and yet they listen to and dance to
American music with English words.
It was a lot of fun. We had to buy tickets for whatever food we wanted. They had about 4 different kinds of panini and
homemade fresh cavatelle with fresh tomato sauce. Very nice. I saw them bring in the pasta in big wooden trays and
little Italian ladies putting it into very large pots over a wood fire and scooping it out and into a large bowl with sauce
in it. I don't think I'd see this anywhere but in Italy.
I need to clarify this Gallotti family tree. I was mistaken about the Baron and Baroness. The Baroness was married
to Giusui (Josey or Joshua in America). His son is Giuseppe (presently the real Baron on paper) whose the brother
of Carla and Mario and Prospelina. I went to the festival tonight with the Baron's (Giuseppe) son whose name is also
Giusui (Josey) and his wife and son, Luca (6) and daughter, Julia(8). At the festival I met Josey's mom and her 2
sisters who all have villas at the same beach as Carla. They live permanently in Naples. This Gallotti family just
keeps getting bigger and bigger. And then or course you have the Simoni family (Carla's husband GiGi) which
means Robby's last name is Simoni. Josey and his family live in Rome and only come down here to visit their
grandmother, the baroness once a year. Josey has his own apartment within the castle. Yikes!
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