Sean Hayes

On 7/21/2010 at 8:30 AM, culduthel said:

Locarnos Cafe was run by Mr Serafini, great guy and a good friend of my mother. He was Sergio Serafini's dad. A father and son who were so different.

 

Great coffee at Locarnos and very good but very odd tasting ice cream. There was a Barbers mid way through the Market, can't remeber the name even though that is where i always went.

Sergio's father was called Renzo Serafini and his mother was Vincenzina Serafini (nee Celli).  Sergio's grandmother Mary Celli (nee Woods) was my great aunt. She was married to Lottetto Celli, originally from Frosinone Province in Italy. The Woods family were from Ireland, where I am from, though I have lived in London for over 30 years. I met Renzo on my one and only visit to Inverness in 1973.  Good point about the father and son being different, as  I remember Sergio being referred to as the black sheep of the family even then.