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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 ...
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Day 1
So, we arrived in Venice after a nice, leisurely train ride from Florence. The sun was out, it was relatively warm, and we had no trouble navigating to the correct water-bus to take us to the end of the Canal. We then spent a solid hour trying to find our B&B, the directions for which took us to a sketchy doorway in Castello, but where none of the names matched what we had for our info. So we called the B&B, learned ...
The Greek Isles Plus some
... long, as it was a dirty, shabby place where the rubbish hadn’t been collected for days and was piled high on almost every corner.
The famous island of Mykonos was our next port of call, the location for the film Shirley Valentine in the 1980s. After seeing the usual monastery, churches, and beaches, we just wandered around the narrow little streets. Taxis don’t have any problem squeezing into these tight places ...
What a pain
... Lido. It was so lovely to cruise up to the smaller Murano canal, get off and walk about a glass factory for a tour.
The boat back took us by the Archimede Seguso glassworks I'd read about in the City of Falling Angels.
Back at the Roma station as we walked back to the Hotel, I discovered my slight muscle cramp became a major cramp and I felt lucky to make it over the bridge and up the stairs to the ...
Venice
... of the gondola we had a wander and Tim (tour guide) spoke about st. Marks basilica and the doges palace. Very involved history! We then watched a display of Venetian glass blowing which was spectacular for just how quick the vase and ferrari horse was made. They then gave us a quick lesson on what minerals are used to make the different colours and why red and pink glass costs more, they then tried to encourage us to ...
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