Sundays are meant to be sleepy, so today is a good fit! We did not make it down for breakfast until about 9:30. The sun is out again and the birds seem particularly festive in their 'song singing' this morning, It is nice just to lie in bed and open the doors to the sound of the waves and the birds doing their Sunday thing!
We are planning to drive south to a small town above Chiavari to a restaurant that Andrea found last time we visited. We did not make it that time due to a shift in plans, but this time we made a reservation for Sunday lunch at 1:00. We had invited Jeff and Blair to go with us but Jeff has come down with a bad sore throat and they had to back out.......which is obviously the safe way to go here. No one wants to get sick!
We had a very nice, simp breakfast and drifted back to the room around 10:30. We ended up relaxing (half-napping) until around 12:00, which is when we needed to leave for La Brinca. The drive took us about 45-50 minutes. Much of the way was on the autostrada with very little traffic. The last 10 miles, however, was inland......where the roads got narrower and eventually shifted into a series of switchbacks up a fairly steep incline to the town of Ne. This was a really fun adventure and the trattoria was about as picturesque as we could have hoped for.
We got a great table by the window with an amazing view back down over the wooded valley. The food was amazing........more than we could eat! but wonderful. One of our favorites was a fresh green salad that was not on the menu.......greens, herbs and flowers that were picked in the garden this morning.
The view from our table was quite stunning. We actually spent three hours here having a relaxing lunch!
The amuse buche was some sort of beef with peaches and fried like an arancino.
and in the middle of nowhere, in a mountain village, the wine list was on an Ipad......102 pages!
