"Field Trip" with Gloria

As a result of EXPO, Gloria has a number of new sales leads. Wednesday(October 12) she had appointments to meet with two of them. One in Genoa has a very large successful shop; the other was about an hour away heading towards San Remo, and she did not know much about him. I went along so we could visit, and maybe I could do a little sightseeing while she was on her calls. In Genoa there was nothing around to see, so I sat in the car and worked on my Pavia blog post. When she came out we agreed that we were both hungry-no, starving! She said she knew a perfect place nearby to eat.

Well, she was "right on"! The trattoria we went to has been in this family since 1930!!! Bettina and her husband run this small twelve table restaurant right along the harbor. Gloria requested their delicious, homemade pesto for our "first" on a special type of Genoan pasta called for which is a little like fusilli.The waitress Sarah said that her eighty-four year old grandmother comes in every weekend to make the pasta. For our "second" I had chicken cacciatore with fries, and Gloria had an onion "tart" (I did not get the Italian name for it) with tasty fresh salad. There was plenty of fresh bread and olive oil through out the whole meal. For dessert we had homemade strawberry and vanilla gellato and coffee. For several years in a row they have won the Best Pesto award in a local event. This "oh, SO tasty" meal included a small (50ml?) pitcher of white wine and bottle of water. The bill for this tallied 26 euros. Thanks, Gloria, for taking me to this fantastic place. Thanks also to Bettina and her family for this DELICIOUS meal!

There are also many wonderful old buildings all over Genoa (or Genova when in Italy) which I had not seen on Sunday. Here are just two "drive by" examples!
On the way back to Gloria's we stopped at the train station, so I could buy my ticket to Turin (Turino) for the next day. That night we had another excellent meal-albeit only one course!-at a wonderful restaurant in Alessandria.