Day 24

Day 24 Friday 23rd April.

Today we planned to visit a garden we have read much about, the Palladian Villa di Maser,
Having learned our lesson from the Glass museum we are checking the opening times. Sure enough its only open at week ends until the summer.
Deciding to wait and use the time to sort out a dongle once and for all.
Our current intermittent Internet access is driving us potty. Were so used to looking up everything on the webb, we are lost without it. This was to be the ultimate test of our Italian language skills. Buying and installing programmes in our own language is often beyond us, so, filled with trepidation we lugged our laptop into the local electrical shop.
Where the gods sent us Matteus.
A comfortably padded, vertically challenged youth, he spoke enough English to explain what was on offer and even said he would install it for us if we went back the next day.
We immediately elevated him to the status of an angelic being, God Bless him.
We now have three hours a day Internet access and hope to catch up on some English TV.
Only having the local product in terms of TV and is A W F U L L.!!
Either, dreadfully boring old ladies, wearing lived in clothes and outlived hair doo’s;
(you wonder if they knew they were going to be on telly,) chuntering on about god knows what, talk about low production values. One camera and a 40-watt bulb would be big budget.
Or its brazen hussies flaunting everything they have (and it isn’t brains) on some appalling game show.