Chris & Kelly's Travel Adventures

Welcome to Monte San Savino and the annual Porchetta festival!  We arrived early (didn't realize it didn't actually start until after 3 pm) so looked around and found this 12th century church, very plain outside, not very big inside, but beautiful.  Oldest pipe organ in Italy and even had a display of ancient hearses...kind of strange, but interesting.  

We headed over to Aldo's stand.  Aldo is the official sponser and head cook of the porchetta festival as he and Monte San Savino are in the Guiness book of World Records for the longest pork roast at a whopping 44 meters!  For those of you who are curious: a porchetta is a completely deboned pig (except for head and feet), then seasoned and stuffed with salt, pepper, whole garlic and wild fennel.  They roll it up like a carpet, cover it in bacon, tie it up and slow roast it over a open spit.  Then they thinly shave it and serve it up on sandwiches.  We were pigs and took home 4!

I got an unexpected Italian souvenir today.  At 5 am, while having toast and coffee I broke a tooth.  Luckily for me, our hosts knew a local dentist and managed to get me an appointment for 3 pm (same day!).  Dr. Coppola was nice and repaired my tooth...He is no Amity (my dentist at home) but a good substitute for needed work.  So I have a permanant Italian filling to carry with me always.  Down side...still numb, so have to eat my sandwich with a knife and fork 😮