This is my Italy. Music & wine in strange locations. There is a fabulous thing in Italy, really and truly magnificent. It’s called ‘Cantine Aperte.’ It translates into English as ‘open cantine.’ Generally, you pay a small amount as entrance (5-8 euros, depending on the event), they give you a glass, and you get […]
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Battle of the Queens
It seems that most things in this lovely valley I live in revolve around cows. The beloved Fontina that is eaten at every meal, the cows standing the the middle of the road blocking the traffic on the way to work, regional competitions for leather workers who make very fine cow bell collars, metal workers […]
Appalachia in the Alps
‘Baby girl, don’t worry, we are going home,’ I whispered to Genepy, the bunny. You see, I was driving the car on the second most curvy road in the mountainous region where I live, Valle d’Aosta. Which means that it is so curvy that when you come around the bend you just about run into […]
The Prosecco Ladies
As per usual, I haven’t been keeping up with this thing. There are a number of exciting adventures to write about but lets just skip to the most recent one. My mom just dubbed them the ‘Prosecco Ladies.’ We are in the middle of wedding planning. No, not the middle. Approaching the finish line, at […]
