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Grappa
2 weeks ago we visited to Bassano del Grappa, which is a beautiful city in northern Italy, where they make Grappa. It is a small town and they have a grappa museum. It was good to see, because I did not know how grappa is made. In earlier days it was the poor man's drink, because it is made from grape pomace, meaning the skins and seeds. Basically the leftovers of the winemaking process. This pomace ...
Never Eat On Sundays
... she didnt warn us and i didnt have time to make something up on the fly, meaning i couldn't leave class early like everyone else did :(
i am glad i am finally done reading for cj....but the material was pretty interesting.
All i want this year is to pass all of my classes with a b or above...Did i mention that i got a 98 on my leonardo paper?? Yeah i did :P yippee.
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Milan
... they even had fragments from cups for mass. They demonstrated the way in which the baptistery actually got the water too, by using this complex hydraulic system so the water was always fresh.
When we came back up from this a mass was going on and we realized why the areas had been closed off earlier.
Then we walked around for a while until our backs hurt to much and we had to sit and find a bathroom. So all ...
Verona
... and I got an apple. We finally saw Sara's number 16 on the map which was Arche Scaligere. We ate the delicious fruit in a romantic park nearby to make Chris jealous, I tried to pet a dog but the wiener waddled away:( Walking away we actually passed Romeos house (mind you it's closed...always) Then we took lots of pictures on the water after we crossed the bridges I got really close to the water in one picture and Sara ...
Ogni Santi
Since in Italy we had off on all saints day, it was a 4 day weekend for us. A girl, denise from our residence here invited us to come visit her in her hometown. After celebrating halloween a bit we went to Trento on thursday. Trento is a little town in nothern italy in the dolomites actually. They have a university also. I really liked the city, because it is even smaller than padova and very cute. I like that the italians ...