We followed Clive into the industrial part of Sulmona to a car parts place. The guy had a look and said we only need to replace the glass and he can order us one for E14.
We then went into the market and bought loads of fantastic stuff, sweetcorn, water melon, aubergines, peaches, green beans, tomatoes, eggs, two types of cheese and the local salami known colloquially as ‘coglioni di mulo’ . They had a couple of stalls selling slices of roast pork in rolls, we chose one that claimed to have won the Italian pork championship – it was good. We also bought some bread from the baker on the edge of the market. You buy it by weight they just cut you off a chunk and you can even have it sliced – which they did by hand with a big knife. We also went to a better supermarket and bought some local wine and other stuff.
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| Si showing off his coglioni |
In the early evening we drove to Introdaqua a local village with a medieval tower. When we got there a festival was just started that claimed it would have ‘gourmet food stalls’ - there was one peanut stall! We walked up to the tower and then bought a gelato from a bar where we’d seen them get a delivery from an artisan gelato maker.
When we got back there was a religious procession going round the village. Led by a brass band and followed by the women, people carrying a statue and then then the men. We assumed the statue was Mary but when it came close it appeared to be Jesus with a small dog at his feet with a huge biscuit in its mouth.
We made a meal with our market purchases some of which weren’t as good as they looked. The peaches were a bit sharp and the sweetcorn was inedible, tough and tasteless. The tomatoes were good though – Will made bruschetta from a left over baguette. The brass band played on the stage but we didn’t go to see them, we could hear it anyway. Played Trivial Pursuits.
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