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Italia , 18$/Gal Avgas
I have not updated the Blog for while , got so busy in Europa , especially in Switzerland with my Family , staying with Mother and all my sibling Elsi, Rene , Werner ,Bruno, Daniel and there Family that the 3Month in Europa went by in no time.
Trying to catch up now while Im in Florida trying to sell the House.
Flying from North to south in Switzerland takes about 20minutes in the SX and one gets really busy with all the Airspace restrictions ,MOA,s ...
Farewell Italia
Our 80 days in Italy have been so happy and it has been such a wrench to leave our beautiful friends. Sal and Rog have made this journey possible for us and we have loved every minute of it. We have laughed our way through the whole journey. We are now on an Alitalia flight to Roma then on to Bodrum via Istanbul. I do hope this will be a smooth transition as we have had some difficulty with Pegasus Airlines and after an email this morning from them saying ...
Wine - start to almost finish
... that squashed those grapes was enough for me to say NO. Then there was the clean up and of course we all ended up wet and covered in grape refuse - was fun. Benadetta arrived with lunch which was splendid crumbed and fried ricotta, lasagne, roasted peppers and caponata - red wine of course. Franco usually takes the grapes to a commercial wine stores in San Vito but since the tax has been imposed on the squashed grape remnants which are used to make grappa - they have shut up shop ...
Lecce
Lecce is sometimes called the Florence of the south Peninsula because of the soft limestone used in the very ornate architecture called the barocco leccese and the city is filled with Baroque monuments particularly churches. Also notable is the traditional handicraft art of paper mache' - extremely ugly and often huge religious images. The old city is just a treat to walk through - you find yourself ...
The long lunch
... for the focaccia - onions chopped by sal and I with tears - just a few small tomatoes - par boiled and skinned - white wine, lettuce and olive oil - simmer to reduce. Then the strawberry tiramisu which was purée of strawberries which benadetta had in the freezer, 60 savoiardi biscuits soaked in this. Cream whipped then mixed into combined mascarpone and cream cheese Philadelphia then assembled. Biscuits, cream, biscuits, cream and then topped with strawberry ...
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