Sat 18 Oct- another work/reading day in Bellagio Hotel Metropole

Sat 18 Oct- it was a cloudy cool day, so we continued working and reading after breakfast and searching the Internet for hotel accommodations and transportation. Stan read 'The Times' (http://timesonline.co.uk) for the market and other news while Kiyomi worked. Stan finished 'Simply Divine', a humorous book with lots of puns and names that were funny when read aloud; and started 'Weep No More, My Lady' by Mary Higgins Clark, which seems full of 'red herrings' and misdirection as to the villain, but is interesting reading, and fast.
After a break for beer and coffee at the Metropole cafe, we continued until dinner. For dinner we had: 1/2 liter house white wine; proscuitto & cantaloupe, salami, cheese and tortilla appetizer; spaghetti with vodka sauce with cheese & ham and panzerotta of the lake (mushroom, ham and fish wrapped in a thin pasta shell) for first plate; Milanese veal chop (breaded and fried) and steak, with beans and potato with rosemary for second plate; and a surprise grande finale dessert plate of chocolate cake, chocolate muffin, apple tart, vanilla pudding and whip cream, served with a glass of sweet wine like Muscato. What a pleasant surprise! The waiters and maitre d' came over, shook our hands, kissed Kiyomi, and bade us farewell.