Sunday afternoon

After breakfast we had a mini tour of the Jewish underground settlement by Joseph.  The short of it 14th-15th century the Jewish community was destroyed and all the bldgs along with scared texts by the Church.   Many artifacts were "repurposed" for the bldg of the new Lecce and important ones disappeared .  A few British ladies stopped us and asked about our tour as they were familiar with the Jewish history of Lecce and were disappointed that no tours ever address it.  So we felt fortunate to have exp.  a small part of it.

The we walked up to the plaza and Bruce had the most outrageous ice cream sundaes we have seen or tasted!  We also had a local espresso drink that has either a small amount of almond make or has dry ice then sugar to keep it cold.  It as so damn good.

Then onto a really long walk on the other side of Lecce plaza and discovered a second part with more eating establishments, art galleries, clothing shops, lucky for our c c not in my size and beautiful Barouqe churches.   I got hungry and we looked for an interesting place and we found one.  This was the best meal we had in Lecce.  We were the only English speaking couple there so had to find a server and menu in English.  As we looked around it was a very typical Sunday afternoon, after Mass, Italian meal and what I mean is four to five courses.  Pasta, salad, meat or fish, side veggie , dessert (fresh fruit) and then coffee.  I had the most wonderful spag with clams and mussels , bruce had and outrageous veal dish with fungi and a sauce that I kept sponging up with my bread.  We had the server choose a glass of local wine for us.  Bruce liked it and I know that Ina would enjoy it also.  It was ok for me.  What we did notice that French fries are so really popular and I mean popular.  Almost every table near us ordered them with their eat course except the elderly couple near us had a potatoe side dish.

we ended with a small plate of fresh fruit and the price was reasonable.

Back to the room to rest and repack.  May email later.  Say a prayer for us for our first foray with the car.