What a fabulous weekend!  Since I was told the little town I needed to go to,was between Rome and Florence, I arrived at   Termini to discover only a couple of trains between Rome and Florence stop at this little town daily…so I had to wait about 3 hours for the correct train.  Got there just fine and the man was tihere to drive me to Bormarzo.  Got there and found my little hostel and checked in.  A huge room with 4 twin beds, a big desk, 4 chairs and a big bathroom.  Two windows open onto a view of the beautiful valley. I walk up to the Orsini Palazzo – also called the castle -and see the girls who have been setting up the show all week.  The quilts are beautiful, but things are in such a mess, I don’t know how they will be ready to open tomorrow.  They work until about 8pm, and we drive to a little restaurant for dinner.  Had a wonderful 4 cheese pizza with anchovies.  Get back to the hostel and crash into bed.  I’m there by myself tonight.  

Friday morning, I go to the bar in the town center…10 doors down, and have cappuccino and a roll, then back to the palazzo for my class at 10am.  The show is ready and everything looks beautiful.  My class is with a lovely teacher named Susanna and she speaks English.  We are learning to make stars.  Of course, the star I wanted to make is the most complicated…and we never got that far, but I learned enough that I can make it on my own at a later date.  When class ended, we went to the Piazza of the castle and had lunch served by a catering company.  There were several nice, well fed cats who came to see what they could talk me out of and I gave them bites of a chicken salad.  They wanted nothing to do with the bread I offered them.  Walked around the little village inside the castle grounds taking pictures of the picturesque doors and alleys and stairs and then the panoramas.  This whole city is beautiful.  I met a lady this morning who lives here for a few months to study for a counselor exam…and that is about all there is to do here.  I never saw a single shop open.  Or restaurant.  Just a quiet, sleepy town with beautiful scenery.  Even Civita Bagnorigio had more activity.  I went back to the hostel to rest up before dinner and again about 8pm we went back to the same restaurant for dinner.  More ladies had arrived, including my room mate, Marilena.  Another good dinner and back to bed.  Another lady joined us at the hostel.  Her name is Carla.  Carla has beautiful tattoos the entire length of both arms, one across her shoulders in back, another on her chest and down one leg.  Ad she is a retired high school math teacher.  Don’t you know her kids loved her!  Make you rethink tattooed ladies!  She is just precious and sweet and funny.  In the middle of the night there was a scream and a bang as she fell out of bed and hit her head on Marilena s bed!  I’m sure she isn’t used to sleeping on a twin bed.  She will have a big knot on the head tomorrow, but we all get back to sleep.  Speaking of sleep, I’m exhausted and Goingto,shower and go to sleep.  Will continue this tomorrow.