Gifts from Italy This Week

My son went to Italy and brought his Mom a few gifts.  I am loving them and his thoughtfulness.

Here is the first cloth fan.  I adore fans and I love the color blue and who doesn't like peacocks.

This one is from Verona, where Romeo and Juliet are supposed to have lived.  Loving the scenes.

And no Italian-Lithuanian can come home to his mom without a bottle of lovely olive oil.

I already used the oil on some Italian Sandwiches I made for him when he visited me today.

He arrived at Logan Airport just before the high winds that took out our power at my house for 37 hours.  It was a costly loss since much of my food in the fridge had to be replaced today.  The meats were heavily packed in the freezer so they remained frozen so at least I did not have to replace those.

Some of the places my son visited were:

Chia Beach in Sardinia.

Lago Dibraise which is on the Austrian border and where most Italians speak German.

Another view of Lago LaBraise

Venice with its canals

Venice again.

Malsecine Lake in Garda

Her had a wonderful time but said before he reached Boston they hit a storm between Europe and the USA that kept them in their seats with turbulence for an extra hour and half of flying time because of stiff head winds.  Scary.  In the meantime the New England coast was preparing for a nasty wind storm along our eastern shoreline.

Thankfully everyone I know came thru it all just fine.