the Royal Cocktail Club begins...

It took a while before I noticed that this glamour-less life in Spoleto was getting to me. After sharing this revelation with an English friend here, I learned she felt the same way. I told her how I was introduced to the "COSMOPOLITAN" cocktail from the Sex in the City TV series show one month earlier in the USA.

Then my mind went a buzz.... I'm good at faking it till I make it so, let's do it! Make my own cocktail club! Bring the glamour to my little village even if it’s only 2 friends.

I also learned that a spunky little horse decided to throw my English friend but kept her leg in the bridle upon doing so. I think the words SNAP CRACKLE POP were remembered being overheard!

My English friend with a broken leg was then confined to her top floor apartment (which is the 3rd floor by American standards) without an elevator. Oh My!

I thought if I can't bring the SPICE GIRL to the party, I can bring the party to the SPICE GIRL! This is where are story begins.

With my new cocktail book "in hand" I was armed and ready. I loaded as many cocktail making accessories that could be stacked in my 2 wheeled grocery cart I headed off with a mission.

Our 1st meeting went well. After juicing the limes and shaking up all things, 3 hours later I made it down the 3 flights of steps quite well. Gravity was the driving force here! We agreed that the "Italian Mojitos" were pretty good and a new choice would be made for the next week.

By the time the 2ND cocktail event happened, a Roman Pistol friend of mine said, “and you didn't invite me?" Off to L'Contessa di Londra's house for a consult as to inviting an “Italian” into our midst. Could an Italian drink socially and still keep it fun? We voted YES for a trial appointment with our new honorary guest.

To our surprise, this little Roman Pistal could pour down a drink like in half a NANO second. I hadn’t even finished mixing my 1st drink and she wanted her 2nd. I knew right then and there, she could fit in just fine.

So we the L'Marchesa di New York & L'Contessa di Londra approved the membership of the Roman Pistol and dubbed her L'Emressa di Roma.

From that point on we participated in weekly or bimonthly WORLD CONFERENCES. The drinks changed each time to be coming in from around the globe.

A Brazilian cocktail, an Italian cocktail and an American cocktail and soon we are do for an English cocktail! These evenings went well with three countries making, sipping and talking world issues...

We have become a very globally sensitive club making sure we stay true to our roots discussing global warming issues like-

Do you think they grow limes here in Italy? No, they are usually ship them in from Spain. Why, it is not warm enough here or is it a cultural issue? Do you think they sell flavored vodka here? In Spoleto, probably no but maybe you can carry it back from London next trip. Or I can try the next time to suitcase it from America! Before we knew it, we were solving the dilemmas of the world, or as much as we thought we could.

I think our next year goals will include, trying to help the global warming crisis by trying to grow a lime tree indoors and maybe inviting 1 more international guest, L’Sultana di Casa Blanca. I will present it out our next United Nations meeting but one problem is holding up all this diplomacy, L'Marchesa di New York has an ongoing urinary tract infection that’s not responding to antibiotics! So we fore see it being another 2 weeks before we rejoin in session.