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Grappa
... and voila there is grappa. I reallly do not like it, it is way too strong for me, but it was nice to see anyway. Since it was beginning of winter, they put up a fake ice-skating field in the middle of the square. It was a beautiful, sunny day and the ice-pad felt a little out of place, but the idea is very nice.
On our way home we stopped at cittadella, which is medieval city, that still has the old ...
Travel Day
Today was a relatively long travel day all of it on the autostrades - about 500K. The speed limit on these roads is 130K which seems to only apply to the right lane. Lots of truck traffic as we headed north but unlike where we live, most truck drivers stay in the right lane. Also, drivers when they pass get back into the right lane as soon as possible - they don't think it is a driving lane. Some vehicles in the passing lane are ...
Murano Island: Meh!
... 8217;s designs, or to take a piece out and place it on a glass stand where we could better appreciate the art of the piece.
The pieces were beautiful, ranging from glass recreations of Picasso paintings and traditional, delicate gold-dusted Florentine wine glasses to spectacular glass aquariums where seaweed, coral and tropical fish were frozen forever. Most were worth thousands of euros. There were some exquisite pieces of jewelry as ...
The Watery Wonderland that is VENICE !
... may get out there exploring. Because of fewer “monuments” to visit we had decided to stay only three days in Venice hence we needed to explore the surrounding areas as extensively as our time allowed. Suffice to say we had a GREAT time doing so but managed to get lost so easily that it was infuriating. The cliche is that 'all lanes look the same' but HONESTLY they do! I found a different way to and from our B&B each and every time. Suffice to say that if ...
I wish everyone I know were in Venice with me!
... about the Virgin Mary whether she was just a woman or was she more. Under the first painting we saw there was a relief titled something like the sleeping Virgin Mary. During the time the relief was completed the Church could not decide whether Mary died or she somehow “rose” to heaven and this debate took place for nearly a thousand years. If Jesus was born without original sin then how could Mary have ...