Hotel Duomo L'Aquila
Via Dragonetti L'Aquila, Abruzzo, 67100, Italy
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Anthony;s Day
After a wonderful meal last night we woke to a day in the birthplace of Anthony's mother.
First let me tease you with details of last nights dinner. We went for the degustation menu and were not disappointed. We started with bruschetta and bread drizzled with olive oil, both lightly toasted. followed by antipasto, then fettuccine with a butter and porcine mushroom sauce. Gnocchi with truffle sauce followed. Next came lamb on ...
The house
... I found out that during my walk of contemplation during that rugged Wednesday that I thought we weren't going to get financing that the spot where I stopped to grab some lunch from the wagon was no more than three blocks from where a new Ikea Mega Store is about to open! We have been contemplating what a little paint, tile, and spiffing will do to the place. It is going to be nothing short of breath taking!
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Avellino to Rieti (sleeping in a belly button)
... the town before mountng the P-D and heading north again. We passed through the large, regional centre of L'Aquila that suffered major earth quake damage last year.
Some of the road structure was still out of commission and so we were shuffled off the side to a succession of minor (and we definitely mean that in the truest sense of the word!) roads before returning to the main thoroughfare north. ...
I found it
... cool, not wanting to go too far into hypermode. I knew that if I jumped I might regret, and I was thankful to hae my entourage along to keep me in check.
We looked at a few more properties, all of which were intriguing. Along the way we made our way into the main plaza of town where we found a group of men conversing passionately. Had they been reading my mind? Did they really know that this was what I wanted, was to see a community of ...
Abruzzo: l'aquila, castelvecchio, teramo
... for the night. Right away he took us into the stall where all of the sheep were. They really do 'baa' and the herd was hilarious just chewing away at the hay. There was also a donkey- they really do go 'hee haw', 30 dogs, 200 sheep, a cow and a few pigs. My favorite quote by Sergio was in response to my question of why the female and male pigs were kept separate: 'Darling, if they were allowed to stay together, they would just have ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Il Duomo



