Tuscany was our third Italian study trip and the last of the year's stages. What better way to end it than with a bus ride that didn't correspond to the schedule's timeline, an artisinal pasta maker, an upscale olive oil producer, lunch of cured meat and cheese, a free night to roam the city to find wine and typical regional food, a visit to a family-run large scale winery, a too-many-to-count-course dinner in a quiet cobblestone village, a visit to a family-run small scale winery, a multi-course lunch filled with laughter and wine, a crammed ride in a white van - just like crete, just like friuli, the distinctive-wafty room of hanging homemade cured meats with a cured meat sampling dish to follow, a visit to a luxurious winery with a tour of its village-like compounds - just like crete, followed by a visit to another winery, free time in a small town where we scatter but all end up at the same bar, a visit to a butcher, a visit to a cow farm, numerous olive oil tastings, hundreds and hundreds of oak barrels, multitudes of steel fermentations vats, hours of bus rides for sleeping, reading, laughing and singing karaoke*, an album of food-photos, tear-induced belly-aching laughter, unanswered questions to definitions of vocabulary that have haunted us this entire year, and of course lots of nerdy note taking. oh, aaand a week's worth of unforgettable memories.
a great way to complete our last UNISG stage together, but hopefully not our last trip together.
* i have video recordings.
1 comment:
"free time in a small town where we scatter but all end up at the same bar."
So true. I love it.
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