Chestnut season

In autumn castagne (chestnuts) can be found roasted and sold on street corners and in the open markets.

We have a daily post-lunch tradition, where the professors and students go to a local bar to take a caffe together. Even if we all do different things for lunch we meet in the courtyard afterwards to walk to the bar together. The professors are kind enough to pay for our caffe and in fact two days ago the barista said that we're so pleasant and friendly everyday that he himself would pay for us that day.

That same day as we walked back to the scuola there was a woman on a bicycle in front of us who stopped suddenly. My professor saw a fresh castagna on the ground in the middle of the road and shouted to her "Le castagne?" and she replied "Si!". The basket of her bicycle had broken somehow and her freshly picked castagne were scattered about, so we picked them up for her. I picked up about six myself and they were beautiful. She was quite grateful and as she rode away with the castagne we continued our walk back to the studio.