Last week in Italia!!!

Last Friday we went to a cheese farm and made some cheese. The first cheese we made was Pecorino. After heating the sheep milk and retin you have to scoop the cheese into containers and squish out the whey.  he next cheese we made was ricotta. You scoop the heated mix of whey to 75 degrees and put it in a small container.  Finally EAT!!!!

Making pecorino!

Pushing the whey out!

Making ricotta.

Scooping out the ricotta.

Yesterday we went to another natural spa. The sulphur in it......stank!! We climbed to the top and the water was boiling. The water ran over a huge white stalectite left from the minerals in the water. When we came out we absolutely stank!!!!

We are doing lots of tags for the last time now. Cooking with Signora Marissa, going to the best icecream man, last Italian feast and last time in Chiusi. We are coming home sooooooooooo soon.

The Tarot Garden

After we dropped gran of at the airport last week we went to the Tarot Garden in Tuscany.

Niki Di Saint Phalle was the architect of the garden. In 1955 she went to Barcelona and saw the park of Guell of Gaudi and decided that she should build her own park. 24 Years later Niki asked lots of other builders and her friend Jean Tinguely if they would like to help. So they all started to build  the Tarot Garden based on the Tarot cards.



Some of the Tarot sculptures where the high priestess, the wheel of fortune, strength, the sun, death, the devil, the world, the fool, the hierophant, the hanged man, the hermit and many more.

The Falling Tower

The World

              

My favourite card was the was the wheel of fortune, a big wheel that spun around and sprayed water everywhere. It was card number number X. It is the saying what goes up must come down.

The worst card was injustice. It was a prison for stuff like hanging and murdering. You would probably ask, "why is it the worst?"   Because of the sound all the metal bits made scraping along the ground.  The sound literally kills my ears.

The Emperoress

Niki lived in one of the cards. She lived in the Empress which is in the form of a sphinx. She had her bed set up,  her bathroom and there where mirrors everywhere. Eliza snuck past the bars and jumped on the bed.

I am still overwhelmed that Nikki could build such a big garden like that.  It proves that if you dream you can succeed.

The Fool

Wheel of Fortune (foreground) and The High Priestess (background)

Etruscan City, Mum, Dad and Gran locked out and Long Italian Lunch!!!!

Four days ago we went to the underground city of Chiusi.  There was this big water collector.  The water would trickle through the rocks and sand and then run down a tunnel into a big water storage.  As the water goes through the different layers of rock and sand it gets filtered.  Another tunnel led to some urns (a tomb that has the ashes of dead bodies in it). It was awesome.  These urns are Estrucan from 200BC (2200 years ago) Each urn has an Estrucan name on it and interestingly the Estruscans wrote from right to left.

This urn has Roman and Etruscan writing.

The next day we were having lunch and Bailey locked the parents and Gran out on the terrace outside.  The door broke and mum and dad were screaming and we were pushing the door.  To stop Eliza screaming we shoved pasta in her mouth.  I went down to the bar and said "Il porto non functzione. Mamma e Pappa non andiamo." (The door is not working. Mum and dad can not get out). Three people followed me up 2 flights of stairs and helped us open the door!!!!















For lunch the next day, Regula and Pasquale and gran came over. For first course we had pizza, for second pici pasta, third mozzarella (a cheese made of buffalo's milk) and dolce Tiramisu, a coffee cream dessert.
BUONISSIMO!!!!!!

PS: if you want mozzarella brought home please email:  jackineurope2013@gmail.com

MOZZARELLA!!!!!!