Places to visit.
We settle back into the village life.
The daughter forages and comes home with interesting greens. Dead nettle and dandelions which she makes into a pesto. We have nettle soup with foraged wild garlic. She makes a mead with dandelion flowers.
New spring flowers emerge every few days on our walk. They open the dam up and let the water downstream to towns that need more water as there has been a drought here. On the hillside blackthorn begins to flower and we all start to sneeze. The trees are starting to green up, the meadows start to sway with thousands of dandelions gathering in the sunshine.
We watch with awe as an almost full moon lifts its curve over the mountains and the valley glows.
We take a trip to Trento via Bassano del Grappa and marvel at the ancient wooden bridge of Ponte degli Alpini spanning the river, dating back to 1569. It's been destroyed many times and rebuilt to the old specifications.
In Trento we go to our favourite beer hall, Forsterbrau where I have Strangolapreti which translates to priest chokers that dates back to the Council of Trent in the 17th century when the clergymen would eat so much of this dish that they supposedly would choke. It’s a dumpling made of spinach, cheese and breadcrumbs, topped with melted butter and parmesan.
Next day, we saw a sign for an underground museum and beneath the city is a whole Roman town with streets, sewerage systems, toilets, shops etc. Amazing!
That afternoon we went for aperitivo at La Vie en Rose, our favourite bar where they serenade us with piano music and serve a great aperitivo and then we ate at Ristorante Pizzeria alla Grotta where they served huge meals and afterwards they took us down to the cellar that had been converted and which dated back to when it had an entrance to the main street but after many centuries it had been filled in. We wander back home over ammonite fossils and a Roman town underfoot.
We have breakfast Italian style of ricotta croissants and a macchiato before we leave to go back home.
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