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An Hour In The Life Of My Italian Village During Covid.

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  From My Village By Train in 40 Minutes Welcome back to my What’s On My Plate blog.   Today I just wanted to capture a small snapshot of life in my small village.    You could drive through it in only 4 minutes.    I will relate what I saw in our main piazza.   What happens here, I believe,   is typical of most small towns and villages in Italy.   In the next few minutes you can read a bit about a typical morning in Italy.   Let’s start off with a visit inside the town hall we call Municipio. I went in for   a short visit with our town mayor in his office.   Mayors are called Sindaco in Italy and like any town around the world they do their best to keep the lid on things.   Right now he is very concerned with the virus and the economy.   Money is tight, and he has to juggle upkeep of the village and the resources to pay for it.   My mayor is young, likeable, and has a genuine smile.   He tells me that he is a secondary math educator when he is not sitting in the Sindaco’s chair.   My