Ferrari Cup and holiday

Last Sunday we went to the Ferrari world finals. It was so cool except for the beginning when there was, in the first 100 meters, a 5 car crash. There were tractors pulling the cars away and the safety car slowing all the others down to a stop. One of the drivers went off in an ambulance but I don't think it was bad. Apart from the crash it was cool and loud. Here are some pictures.

The day after we went to Florence and bought some chestnuts. In the evening we roasted them on the BBQ. I don't like them but everyone else does. It was fun because it was cold but we had the fire going so it kept us warm. I took some bread and stuck it on the end of a fork and toasted it. It was yummy because it tasted like it had been on a BBQ. Here are some more pictures.

Yesterday we came back from our trip to Carrara, Colonnata, Castelnuovo, La Spezia and the Cinque Terre. Colonnata is famous for lardo and we bought 2 packets of it, one big, one small. Lardo is cured back fat from a pig and it tastes very salty. It is cured in salt and left in marble boxes for a very long time. Carrara is famous for Carrara marble which the sculpture of The David is made out of. When we were there we saw the marble mountains where the marble gets mined from. We stayed in La Spezia for the night. In the morning we went to the Cinque Terre. The Cinque Terre is in translation The Five Villages which go along the coast at the Mediterranean sea. First we went to Manarola. The cool thing about Manarola is that to get the boats into the water they lower them with a crane. Then we went to Monterosso and had lunch. For lunch I had a french fries pizza it was yummy. Then we headed home and that was the end of our holiday. Here are some pictures.

The river at the bottom of our drive way has changed dramatically. From hardly any water to a raging torrent. It has even gone over my dam that I built with my friend. Here are some pictures of the torrent.