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Another minor update on my allegedly food-driven
travels. (I tried to email an earlier version of this report to Christine but due to failed web-email interfaces I think it never got there.) As per plan, we flew to Milan and my dining partner drove us to Parma where we ate at the bio-energetic restaurant "Aprito Sesamo". It was quite a wonderful meal, a fixed seven course menu. The hoped for one-hour drive from Linate to Parma didn't quite work out, as we were half way to Parma before we actually found the autostrada... I was navigating by compass (which ultimately works, but incrementally). Originally, we were going to spend the next three days without planned itinerary in Tuscany. But my ever-thoughful partner had a brainstrom and suggested we immediately proceed to outside of Assisi and stay at a biofarm there. This worked out splendidly; we cut around Tuscany (sniff, sniff) by heading nearly to Rimini before taking the beautiful E45 over the mountains towards Perugia. So although a white truffle experience was not to be, this time, we had an excellent black truffle experience in town; but in house at the farm was farm-local olive oil, eggs, fresh pasta, boar salami, sagratino wine, and oregano, upland cress, and thyme from the garden, and some good cheese and a Sagratino wine (I think I already said that), all of which we happily prepared for ourselves in our little self-catering farm unit. There was a discussion of are fresh farm eggs better ... the answer is yes, for poached eggs. The next phase involved and equally moutnainous drive, part through a valley (the Valerina?) which has changed but half a naugt in centuries; and then dropping down to sora where our next biostay is. We have just arrived so more later... cheers |
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Giusi > wrote:
>>The next phase involved and equally moutnainous >>drive, part through a valley (the Valerina?) which >>has changed but half a naugt in centuries; and >>then dropping down to sora where our next biostay >is. We have just arrived so more later... >That's where I went a couple of weeks ago, where I boight the wonderful >potatoes! They are famous there for trout as well, since the waters of the >Nera are so clean and cold. Past the Valnerina id the Pianogrande of Umbria >with lentils of Casteluccio and Norcia which is famous for its pork since >Roman days. This is a true foodie trip! Yes I recall your saying that you went up there; I believe you were much further up in the mountains, in Norcia. We only went through the 4 km tunnel that takes you to the middle of the valley of Valnerina, and continued south. So we saw about half of it, but it was beautiful. We had enough time for a one hour walk up the disused railway path up a side canyon. Today was equally good; we went from Sora, to the Abruzzo National Park and hiked around for about three and a half hours. There was nobody up there, just some cattle and donkeys wearing cowbells to scare the bears away. On the highest part of the trail, there was some definite bear scat -- the only bear who lives in Abruzzo is a grizzly bear, and this was large enough scat that it sure looked like a grizzly. But we did not see the bear, nor the other famous occupants of the park like the chamois. The fall colors are really beautiful right now. Steve |
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sf > wrote:
>(Steve Pope) wrote: >>The next phase involved and equally moutnainous >>drive, part through a valley (the Valerina?) which >>has changed but half a naugt in centuries; and >>then dropping down to sora where our next biostay >>is. We have just arrived so more later... >This is sounding wonderful. It's the type of Italian vacation my son >in law would love. He wanted to spend 6 months on some type of farm >in Italy a couple of years ago. Take pictures and post ASAP! The pictures are uploaded from camera to laptop, I just need to refig them and get them on my website. Your non bio son would probably like this sort of farmstay. I must admit that every other guest here is between 20 and 30 years younger than us. I feel that we should have done this in our youth, except that in our youth, this sort of thing did not even exist. But there are now tons of tourist farms in Italy; I think we found these places through Slow Travel or Slow Food. (The proprietor here has said the Slow Food people have been through, but said it with a bit of a shudder: sort of like, "We're Slow Food, and we're here to help!" S. |
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