38. Pete's Party

Pete had been working on digging out the catacomb-like cellars beneath the main building of Il Poggio for months.

His goal was to make the space useful again--but it was soggy, hard work.

I offered to help dig and carry out the mud and soil of ages, but he wanted to do it all himself and, like I said,  he was a very creative and imaginative person.

When he had finished his digging work, he built a bar and turned some stone and brick  alcoves into candle-lit roomlets with comfortable lounge seating. But he wouldn't let anyone enter the cavelike rooms to see what he was doing!


He was saving it all up as a surprise  for one grand party!


Pete had more  jet-set friends than you can imagine since he had worked for some years as a very popular young bartender in Interlaken, Switzerland and he invited all his international friends down for his grand  party. 

When the expensive sport  cars started arriving on the evening of his party it was clear that this was going to be the event of the year! Everyone young. Everyone beautiful. Everyone rich. La Dulce Vita come alive!

Pete had created--all by himself-- what to him was the perfect nightclub setting for his one-night bash and it was grand!.
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