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So we attended the Vinitaly wine exhibition, held in Verona - a week spent tasting, learning about and consuming literally hundreds of different wines is a week well spent in my eyes.
01-03: Vinitaly - we crashed a wine seminar and tasted all the wines before sneaking back out
04: That scary-looking dish of 6 different boiled meats is a traditional dish in Verona, so it had to be tasted...one of the meats was horse. Which I accidentally ate whilst poking & prodding suspiciously at another piece of meat that I'd wrongly deemed to be horse-meat...
05-07: Dinner at Lago di Garda
08-11: Venice
12-13: a lovely waiter took his time decorating our desserts in hearts and helping us pick the perfect dessert wine to accompany it (Amarone Reicoto)
Since returning to London, I seem to have caught Italian Fever - had a date with an Italian man last night. I'm not sure whether it was impressive or repulsive to him that I ate scallops, a 10 oz steak and dessert but he did call me up for another date so I suppose it can't have been that off-putting. Well. They need to learn early, I love my food!
Lovely post. And I really crave seafood right now! I'd love to visit Venice some day.
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