21 Mar 2012, Posted by admin in News, Veneto, Verona, 3 Comments Tagged wine
Ready for Vinitaly
Sunday 25 March the world’s largest wine expo, Vinitaly, opens in Verona.
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14 Mar 2012, Posted by admin in Notes, Veneto, Verona, 10 Comments Tagged wine
Veneto for wine lovers
There are more beer bellies than wine bottles along the east side of Lake Garda, even though it’s a great area for wine tasting.
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13 Dec 2010, Posted by admin in Notes, Trentino - Alto Adige, Trento, Veneto, Verona, 1 Comments Tagged history, landscape, literature, Trento, Verona
A green river flowing through history
Inspired by the Brighton Bloggers “Italy in books” reading challenge 2011, I’ve wallowed in this poem on Verona’s old castel and the Adige River.
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22 Jan 2010, Posted by admin in Notes, Trentino - Alto Adige, Trento, Veneto, Verona, 0 Comments Tagged landscape, literature, nature
Germans at Lago di Garda
Through centuries a steady flow of famous writers such as Goethe, Nietzsche, Kafka and Joyce have visited Lake Garda and in words depicted the lake’s “perfect blue” and its dazzling reflections of silver.
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04 Dec 2009, Posted by admin in Italia, Puglia, Veneto, Verona, 0 Comments Tagged food, wine
’Orse meat
Nowhere in Europe have I seen such a high concentration of horse butchers as in Italy.
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