The Best of Italy

My son and I at a favorite restaurant in Peschiera del Garda

2) Enjoying Opera under the stars at the Roman Arena in Verona.

3) Dinner at a tiny restaurant in a marvelous hilltop village followed by an after dinner passeggiata (walk) along cobble stone streets and through bustling piazzas.

4) The food markets in Italy, especially those in Turin the home of “slow food”. The market in Corso Racconigi is a favorite of mine.

5) The Italians and their love of life and passionate way of living it.

6) The romance, in this Italy really is number one. Everything about Italy seems to have been designed as the setting for your personal love story.

7) Pasta of all types and especially agnolotti (a type of ravioli) which I love in a rich wild boar broth accompanied by a bottle of full bodied Barolo wine. I'm getting hungry already!

8) Sitting outside an old farmhouse in the Langhe wine region, with a great wine to hand, while the sun slowly slips below the vineyard covered hills.

9) Seafood, white wine and olives enjoyed on a summer afternoon in a Ligurian town like Porto Fino, Finale Ligure, Corniglia in the Cinque Terre or any one of the less well known towns stretching all the way to France.

10) Spending the night in an Italian castle, for romance the Pavone Castle (read article) is hard to beat.

11) The language, the most beautiful in the world, although French is a pretty close second it lacks the passion of Italian. Even better is the fact that Italian is easy to learn.

12) Cliched and expensive it may be but a Gondola trip in Venice Italy is so quintessentially Italian and so much a part of Venice that it really can't be avoided!

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