Every monday night the school organises a film screening, last week it was the elephant man which i watched just to listen to the dubbing … this week was the film inseperable with jeremy irons… this is a painful film made even more so by the painful and hard to follow dialogue (italiano of course), not really interested in talking about the film.

Howevr,.. after,.. dopo,.. the film,.. we ventured to ”bar centrale” .. now bar centrale is one of the 2 bars that face the main piazza in urbania,.. and although it has outdoor seating and is open late we foreigners tend to frequent it much less than the caffe del teatro just across the street… well on this fresh urbanese night we changed this pattern and stormed the place. Despite what you may think, Italians actually don’t drink too much, and the raggazi certainly don’t go out for a night of boozing as is the norm back home… This point was made clear to us who leaning at the bar ordered our third beer in the space of about 30 minutes ..

Me: un altro per favore,.. pushing the glass across the bar.
her: un altro? brief look of astonishment crossing her face.
me: si… un… altro… she looks at her watch and reaches for the glass

oh but we hadn’t finished, but we were classy… averna, amaretto, campari and some weird american cocktails that are all the rage over there… and then chris asks about the vodka… Vodka, like most spirits is cheap here,.. a litre of vodka con linone is about 7 euro,.. and its freezable and quite drinkable, limoncello and the like are kind of laughed at but still go down a treat… but like most places the vodka isnt stored in the freezer,.. in fact on the back of most vodka bottles i have seen it says dont put this in the freezer,.. a pox on ye who dont freeze thy vodka i say!

The owner of bar centrale Gianni,.. a man i knew i would like as he reminded me muchly of all round good buddy savvas back home, looked at me when i enquired re the vodka he produced not only ice cold vodka but tres funky little ice cold glasses to drink the stuff from… marvellous, i think he was as happy about it as i was…. further details become blurry.

Oh,.. i had my sunglasses on all night… ah the looks i got from the locals, priceless.