The Comerfords have joined us for some days aboard Dot Calm and for the Spoleto Festival. We all got our “steps” in as we walked to and from the various venues….logging nearly 17,000 Thursday and just slightly fewer the day before and today. (The quarter mile walk to the showers on the dock helps too.) Perhaps all that walking will offset all the food we’ve been treating ourselves to.
A highlight was a late dinner Thursday night at Fig, whose chef was recently named a James Beard award winner. When Cliff asked Siri for the restaurant’s phone number, she responded by telling him it was a 4 1/2 Star restaurant and quite pricey, “is this the number you were looking for?” Never felt like the phone was checking our bank balance before:-). Dinner was terrific by the way!
Thursday we enjoyed a very eclectic mix of music: blues by Shrimp City Slim in the morning, a chamber music concert in the afternoon and a Latin jazz band in the evening. Even the chamber music concert offered diversity…an oboe concerto, a new music piece describing a tornado, Schubert’s Lebenssturme for four hands and a violin performance of themes from Carmen. And all of these were introduced by a knowledgeable and, improbably, very funny emcee who is the director of chamber music for the festival, an accomplished violinist and a professor at Stanford University. He studied with the same teacher as the violin soloist. The whole event was impressive.
More music on Friday — an organ concert in the morning and a choral concert in the late afternoon. We squeezed in lunch at Magnolia’s in-between. Now the issue for me is squeezing into my shorts! (I have a rule about packing for extended vacations….no elastic waist bands!!)
Did I mention the heat!? An occasional rainstorm is welcome relief.
Looks like a wonderful time in a great city.
Kooks are us:-)
We are having a great time!
Kooks like a wonderful time in a great city.