Oh glorious Sunday! This post is the final post from this weekend’s adventures outside of Rome.
Much like yesterday morning, breakfast included Nutella croissants and juice. We then departed for Salerno to visit the Minerva Garden. These botanical gardens grow herbs and use these herbs to treat illnesses with outdated pharmaceutical theories. It was a lot more interesting than I thought it would be, making it one of my favorite stops of this weekend. The gardens had many benign plants, but it also contained poisonous species and very potent plants. I am still curious as to why there are poisonous plants (right next to harmless plants) in a garden that is meant to cure illnesses.
Anyway, we drank some teas made of crushed herbs with some sweet biscuits. The iced teas were quite refreshing after a long day on the bus. We had some time to explore the city then ate a “pocket lunch” consisting of a prosciutto sandwich, tuna and ham mixed with rice, a banana and buffalo mozzarella balls.
You may think that I’m exaggerating the amount of cheese I’ve been eating. I’m not. These people eat cheese by the handful. In America, you take one or two cheese cubes. In Italy, you eat a mozzarella ball the size of your fist for one of your four courses.
We then boarded the bus, returned to Rome, and crashed for the evening. I am supposed to make the video/photographic blog for our garden visit earlier today, so hopefully the Internet will soon agree with me and allow me to post my project.
Tomorrow’s activities include a presentation by Laura Ravioli, the Italian version of Rachael Ray. Should be fun!
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