title	Marconi, Arezzo and the Sagra del Maccherone Festival, Battifolle, Tuscany - 9th June 2013
intro	On the first proper day of our return to Tenuta Il Palazzio, just outside Arezzo in Tuscany, Isobel meets up with former university chum Stefano, with whom we generally hang out for a bit and have lunch, plus a session exploring the expansive cellars in the family house in Arezzo's old quarter. That evening, Stefano takes us over to the Polisportiva Battifolle for the culmination of the 33rd "Sagra Del Maccherone" - a festival apparently celebrating wide pasta ribbons. At first sight, the scene looks like some sort of Sunday car boot sale and the location of the eating a bit like an army Naafi hut, but the maccherone (not to be mistaken with macaroni tubes) in combination with a traditional meat ragu proves to be very tasty. Before that, there's the ongoing and shocking demolition of the iconic Marconi factory near the railway station in Chelmsford.
imgp1652	The digger continues with the garage destruction
imgp1654	The Marconi site in Chelmsford is cleared
imgp1655	There's not much left of the Marconi factory
imgp1656	The Marconi Building is currently still standing
imgp1658	In Southwark, the Shell shop has gone
imgp1659	A skip full of old Shell shop
imgp1664	Harry waits at Stansted Airport
imgp1666	Fred and Harry eat some prawn crackers
imgp1667	The view down a row of seats
imgp1670	The snowy Alps
imgp1671	Harry's hair is all over the place
imgp1673	A view over Pisa and the Mediteranean Sea
imgp1674	A million beach bars and parasols on Pisa's beach
imgp1676	The docks of Pisa from the air
imgp1677	Big ships in Pisa harbour
imgp1678	The spoilers are up as the plane brakes
imgp1681	Our plane on the stand at Pisa
imgp1682	A nearby British Airways 737
imgp1684	Fred eyes up a pastry that Harry wants
imgp1687	Harry roams around
imgp1691	A butterfly on Nosher's finger
imgp1694	Stefano and family come over to visit for the day
imgp1696	Harry hangs on to his Trunki
imgp1697	The swimming pool
imgp1698	Fred gets out of the pool
imgp1700	A giant ant hauls off a victim
imgp1703	Arezzo park café
imgp1704	Suburban Arezzo's bins
imgp1706	Round Stefano's family pad, a lunch spread is served
imgp1707	Fred pokes about
imgp1708	Fred plays around with something
imgp1709	An overgrown garden
imgp1710	Peeling paint on a door
imgp1713	A load of old wine bottles lurk in the cellar
imgp1715	Old bottles in wicker, and 1960s Fanta bottles
imgp1716	Stefano and Isobel inspect the cellars
imgp1720	Old bird cages
imgp1723	A cellar's-eye view of the garden
imgp1724	The overgrown garden
imgp1725	Stefano shows us a field out the back
imgp1727	A pair of distressed garden chairs
imgp1728	Isobel pushes Harry up the street
imgp1729	"Hello Moto" graffiti from around 2006
imgp1730	This football pitch is not quite match-ready
imgp1731	lots of car scrapes on a very steep hill
imgp1732	Old man on the cathedral steps
imgp1733	Some dude statue looks out
imgp1735	There are clothes-line installations all over town
imgp1738	Fred looks up at the "washing line" installation
imgp1740	Clothes over Arezzo
imgp1742	Some phallic sculptures
imgp1743	Arrezo back street
imgp1744	Another installation on the Corso Italia in Arezzo
imgp1749	Everyone eats gelato on the Corso Italia
imgp1750	Outside the Cremi Gelateria
imgp1751	The pile of books artwork
imgp1754	Passers-by inspect the pile of books
imgp1757	A close-up of books
imgp1758	Crumbling sign on a building
imgp1760	Fred gets a stone in his shoe
imgp1762	Stefano, Isobel and Harry on the street
imgp1765	Fred looks in a gallery window
imgp1767	More installation: "Art has no sex"
imgp1770	Café culture
imgp1771	Fred hangs out with Sofia
imgp1772	Italian graffiti
imgp1774	A nice old-fashioned tabacco shop
imgp1775	Harry - Baby Gabey - and Isobel
imgp1778	Stefano, Harry and Isobel
imgp1780	The Sale e Tabacchi
imgp1782	Hanging ornaments
imgp1783	Isobel with Fred
imgp1784	Fred and Sofia hang out like teenagers
imgp1786	Some more art installation: coffins and trees
imgp1787	Fred inspects an old door
imgp1788	A graffiti's underpass
imgp1790	Part of Il Palazzo's 500 hectares of vineyard
imgp1791	We queue up at the Sagre del Maccherone festival
imgp1793	Fred up a hill
imgp1794	Stefano places an order
imgp1795	Stefano steps up to pay
imgp1796	Isobel and Harry wait for food
imgp1797	Maccherone punters
imgp1798	Some pasta comes out
imgp1799	Harry gets stuck in to some antipasti
imgp1802	Harry looks up
imgp1804	A gang of noisy teenagers celebrate
imgp1806	Harry sucks the meat off a spare rib
imgp1807	A packed room of diners
imgp1808	Outside, an original Fiat Cinquecento
imgp1810	Our table
imgp1813	Harry tries to escape
imgp1816	The "restaurant"-cum-shed
imgp1817	Cinquecento, and an Italian-flagged moped
imgp1819	There's a mini funfair nearby