If you land at Venice Marco Polo, it’s a quick, fun vaporetto ride across the lagoon to get to Venice proper, but if you’re coming by train, this is the glorious view you’ll enjoy on the way in. It seems your train is quietly levitating over the lagoon as La Serenissima comes into view.
The anticipation builds like crazy, you can smell the sea and see the Alps off in the distance on a clear day, and then the train arrives in Venice and your adventure begins!
The view one fine afternoon walking toward Strada Nuova from the train station.
It’s snowing today, and spring feels pretty far off at the moment. I’d much rather be here taking in this view on a 60* day enjoying an Adriatic breeze and contemplating a plate of seafood risotto and tagliatelle with cuttlefish ink sauce. Wouldn’t you? Ahhh, Venice…
For the first time in a number of years I am not going to Campania this year. I will miss being on the Amalfi Coast and visiting Naples but I am making up for it by drinking a lot of wine from Campania.
Under the banner of Campania’s Wine Excellence, the region hosted a series of tastings, seminars and dinners earlier this month. I attended a dinner and a seminar and Grand Tasting at Del Posto Restaurant.
The seminar was in two parts: the first was a tasting of the white wines of Campania and the second featured the red wines. Three of my favorite white grapes were represented: Falanghina, Greco di Tufo and Fiano di D Avelliano.
Nichols Belfrage in his book, Brunello to Zibibbo,(1999) states, “This grape (Falanghina), which some have suggested may be of Greek origin, and which some have tentatively indentified as the grape from which…
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