BBQ with Fillipo

After the wonderful winery tour with Paolo and Margaret, we drove on north to Marone on the shore of Lake Iseo. Paolo's close friend Filippo's and his wife Simonetta live just a short walk from the lake.  Filippo and his wife spent a month in the U.S. visiting Paolo and Maggie next door and we became friends as well. Filippo is a retired butcher who loves to BBQ and was preparing a BBQ dinner for our visit. 

The drive to Marone was beautiful, especially as we arrived at the south end of the lake and the road continued along the shore. Iseo is a huge lake with an island that looks like a mountain top in the middle. It was very picturesque. 

We parked the cars on the main road near the lake and walked up to Filippo's as the street is very narrow. As we approached his house we could smell the  grill and the meat cooking and finally we saw the smoke. Filippo was attending to the cooking with assistance from Michael, Paolo and Maggie's son. 

Filippo lives in a building that was formerly a convent, built in the 1500's. His father was also a butcher who kept the butcher shop on the street level and the living quarters were upstairs. When Filippo's parents passed away, the property was inherited by the children and divided into several separate living quarters.  Before the day was over we received a tour of the entire building and two of the other residences there.  All of the photos are in the album in the photo library.  Below is view of the courtyard.