Marco e Marco

The first Marco is at the travel agency in town. It's a small operation-not air conditioned and a lot of fans roaring. Marco is in charge and when we tell him we have tickets on a Windjet flight tomorrow morning he says "ayyyeee". Which we assume is the Italian version of "Oy". He tells us "this is a problem" We know. There are several options. He tells us we need to call the airline and they will get back to us but that seems unlikely based in our attempts last night. In the end Marco helps us out and manages to purchase us new tickets- there goes that dinner at Arpege- Alitalia to Paris via Roma. Not exactly what we intended when we were originally planning the trip but now there is no choice. There is another choice that would have been about 300 Euro cheaper- fly EasyJet through Milan but we would have needed to change airports once in Milan. Lol. We secure new tickets and will visit Marco later in the day to print our boarding passes. We head back to Villa Carlotta. It looks like a day of poolside relaxation is in order (refer to Sarah's posting). Later in the day we walk back up to town to see Marco and also the famous amphitheater. There is ballet there tonight- NY Ballet Company. But we can't interest the girls. Isabelle??
For some reason we have a wine tasting scheduled for us. Something to do with Small Luxury Hotels membership that Marc must have joined during some 2AM work session. We think that 7pm would be good. We think that they will just bring some wine and cheese to the room but it turns out it is formal wine tasting with accompanying snacks up on the rooftop terrace. Marco (different one) is our server. We taste two wines (local) and some olive oils with accompanying cheeses and snacks. Good enough to count as dinner when we are through. We head up the hill after dinner for one more taste of cannoli.
Early to bed (before 1am) because our taxi to the Catania airport is coming at 7:30. Alitalia (read "not WindJet") to Rome at 10:30.