Pesaro routine

We have spent almost a week here and have developed a daily routine. In the morning we walke down Via Trieste to Piazza de la Liberta which is a park on the sea, around it beautiful villas from 1900 and cafes offering a selection of fresh squeeze juices (spremuta) and coffees and croissants and other pastries. Then we walk back to the hotel for a dip in the pool, which is one of those designer pools you see in photo spreads in magazines. Then lunch at this very small cafe on the beach with wonderful seafood and pasta and salads called H2CO and the friendliest staff and owner Andrea Corsini then back to the hotel for an afternoon snooze and by 7pm off we go to the Opera. After the opera around 11PM we go to dinner in one of the many restaurants who are just waiting for the crowds who come after the show.
They stay open until 2 am and serve full dinner menus.
Today we did not have the opera in the evening so we modified the schedule a bit and after breakfast we went shopping for foods from Le Marche region, lots of goodies, sauces for pasta, marmalade, chocolates and candies, wines and liqueurs, pasta, polenta, cured meats like salamis of all kinds and hams prosciuttos
etc... We also went to an enoteca (wine library) to buy wines from Le Marche.

By the way the Marche region is where Pompey the Great came from, he was Julius Caesar rival. Old Julius had Pompey assassinated in Egypt only to die himself in Rome 4 years later, bludgeon to death at the foot of the statue of Pompey, how is that for a coincidence. Le Marche is the other Tuscany in Italy, few people outside of Italy know of it, a lovely place. Tomorrow is the 15 August the Feast of Assumption of the Virgin Mary or Saint-Napoleon Bonaparte depending on your taste, all will be closed in Italy this is the major summer holiday, so we will stay by the pool and go to our little cafe on the beach for lunch. We made dinner reservations because everybody and his old aunt will be out for dinner. We found this restaurant on the beach at the Bristol Hotel which is a 4 star but looks like a dive, the restaurant is quite lovely and it specialty is seafood, the owner is Lorenzo Di Grazioli who has been in business with his brother since 1993.

We were suppose to go to other towns near us to visit, like Rimini and Fano and even Ravenna but decided to be lazy and spend our time at the pool admiring the perfect Italian suntans on the beach. You have to give it to the Italians, how do they do it, men and women in their forties and fifties with really fit bodies. Women who had 2 to 3 kids and do not show it at all. I did notice that at the restaurants they will eat a lot of vegetables, fresh fruits and small portions of meat or pasta, many have only one big meal a day, breakfast is fresh fruit, freshly squeezed orange juice and a coffee read espresso. Lunch is a big green salad with olive oil dressing and a bit of tuna, dinner a pasta with a seafood sauce or tomato sauce and a salad or grilled vegetables. Maybe that is the secret. What I do notice is everyone drinks about one liter of water per meal with one glass of wine, no diet coke here even for kids its water, no soft drinks. No desserts and no heavy creamy dressings, though people will eat bread, it is usually a heavy grain bread with a thick hard crust.

I am going on a strict Italian diet when we return to Rome on Sunday, la bella figura that is what it is all about.