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Can you have a poor meal in Italy?

Can you have a poor meal in Italy? Yes, you can.  It happened in Capalbio today. Such a poor choice of restaurant, but at 2:30 p.m. we were starving and entered the first place we saw - just outside the Medieval walls.  As we are still jetlagged, Edit did not sleep at all last night. I fell asleep at 2:45 a.m. but I kept waking up. I only know that I slept because of the bizarre dreams I had and the fact that I kept waking up.  Last night we decided to visit Grosseto. It is not part of my upcoming book, Get Lost in Travel! 90 Minutes from Rome, but which will be in an eventual travel book on Tuscany (what a subtle plug!). Almost as soon as we started driving, I noticed an occasional white flash on the windshield. It took me a short while to realize that it was a slip of paper shoved under the windshield wiper. Naturally, as we zipped up to Grosseto, I focused a lot on it, fearing it was what I imagined - a parking ticket (it turns out the pass we were given when we checke...

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