Lunch on our first day at Fontana Del Papa was down in the lower level of the vast 600 year old villa and was a vegetable stew a welcome relief from the Roman food where greens seem to be missing. The villa is on 4 levels as it was in the past a typical working villa. The animal lived on the ground floor from the back of the villa and the 2nd floor was for grain storage, the 3rd floor which was our bedroom and private smoke-free lounge and the ground floor from the front was the olive and storage of the foods for the long winter months. The top floor is for the family and today that is where they live except for Luka. Luka wanted his own space and off to the side of the villa is the old pig sties and they have been converted into a small self-contained apartment.
The ground floors have been converted into the small 6 person cooking school kitchen and living and dining areas with it vast "smokey" open fire some 3 meter wide. All 3 lower floors are connected by internal stone steps and the wall are in stone with low sections so it is like a medieval cave that links all the areas. The top floor is via its own stair way from the front.
This stair way also delivers the smells from the kitchen as well as the "smoke" from the fire place "O" and the smoke from the italians smoking down in the kitchens"what that???" up the cave and into our room!!!! My asthma medication is getting a work out, and can you believe it I have become tolerant !!!!! of smoker!!!!!
Solution I have put a moist towel under the door to the cave and we enter via the front entrance great solution and a happy Pete. EVERYBODY smokes in Italy except so far for Bruno and his smoke free cab, so that could also have been a reason for the 110km cab trip to have fresh air for and hour or 2!!!! Bruno gave me his mobile no. so I may ring him when I need some fresh air !!!!
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