We got out in a leisurely fashion, to further explore Reggio.  And, of course, get food.  First destination was a small gastronomia, a shop where they sell prepared foods which you generally have to reheat but that’s all the cooking required.  I have come to love these shops in Italy.  It’s Sunday and we saw people all day, walking with wrapped cakes and bags of food.  Family day?  Anyway, the little shop proved to be so much fun!  We talked a lot with the woman owner as she explained the various dishes, how to reheat them and what went with what.  We bought a bunch of stuff and took it home right away.  Just in time to put our laundry out to dry on the rack on our little terrace.  So, we had dinner covered.

We knew we wanted to go back to Melli, where we had gotten the prosciutto before so we went on a nice long explore before going there.  This centro/center is really quite small and I think we have it covered after today. Here’s a typical street with old porticos:

We walked to the north where there is a big modern looking piazza with a theater at one end:

Behind the theater is a nice park where we sat for a while.  We saw this World War II memorial:

front view

side view with the tiny photos of each man

I always get a real heaviness of the heart when I read these names and remember it was right here, in this town where the fighting and the dying took place.

All around townwe went into small photo exhibits; they are really adding another dimension to the trip.

Walking back, we bought our lunch stuff–breads and prosciutto and culatello, another kind of cured pork.  Also got “erbazzone” a spinach and parmigiano stuffed crusty pie.  Wow!  I loved that!

After lunch and a nice rest period, we went for another pre-dinner walk.  And we needed wine!  We walked up to the duomo and went in for a visit.

We couldn’t find any stores open to buy wine so we went back to our friend in the gastronomia.  She sold us 2 bottles for less than €10 and we talked to her for a long time.  Guess what–she thinks Trump is crazy too.

Home.  Dinner was really fun.  I really loved the agrodolce/sweet and sour onions.  The wine was really nothing special but it worked.

Love these kind of days!