Saturday 24 September

Went to Ravenna and saw five different sites in the one smallish city. Each had amazing mosaics from around 400AD. Incredible detail. We had lunch at a wine bar restaurant. I had a mystery dish with the only thing I could understand in the dish was porcini mushrooms. It came out and was a thinly sliced almost rare beef forming a three layer sandwich of mushrooms, topped with shavings of black truffles, excellent olive oil and lettuce leaves. It was amazing and the meal of the trip so far. Found out later it was a carpaccio. Oh, for entree we had mixed cheeses that were a selection of about 7 with warmed bread. Worth the hour and a half train trip just for lunch.