This morning, after breakfast, we headed out in the mini-bus and were dropped off about an hour’s hike away from the town of Pitigliano. This little hillside town, south of Florence, on the Tuscan border, has a fascinating Jewish history. Our guide for the day was a young woman named Elisabetta. She grew up in Pitigliano [...]
Archive for October, 2011
The Best Thing I Ate Today in Umbria Day 8
Posted in Rice and Grains, Travel, tagged Farro, Italy, Jewish History, Pitigliano, Travel, Umbria on October 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The Best Thing I Ate Today in Umbria Day 7
Posted in Travel, tagged Cibreo, Florence, Travel on October 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Today, thankfully, we had an opportunity to air out our hiking and biking clothes and give our tired aging muscles and bones a bit of a rest, as we were headed off to Florence, by bus, to go sightseeing. We started off in our minibus with Claudio. Once we got off the strada bianca (dirt [...]
The Best Thing I Ate Today in Umbria Day 6
Posted in Travel, tagged Cheese, Travel, Umbria on October 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This morning we headed out on our little bus, driven by Claudio, to the outskirts of Montepulciano (home of the noble Italian wine by the same name). From there the bikers began their 24 kilometer ride for the day. The hikers headed off on a 6 kilometer trek, taking us through the tiny hamlet of Montichiello, [...]
The Best Thing I Ate Today In Umbria Day 5
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Italy, Orvieto, Travel, Umbria on October 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Today we hiked (and some of us actually braved the hills and biked) to Orvieto. What you need to know about this ancient Umbrian city, which dates back some 3000 years, to the Etruscan era, is that it is perched atop a soaring volcanic plateau. This hilltop town rises high above the green Umbrian valley [...]
The Best Thing I Ate Today In Umbria Day 4
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Butterfield and Robinson, Italy, Travel, Umbria on October 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Right after breakfast we left the villa and began an “easygoing walk along country roads, toward Cantina Scambia, a local winery.” Well, at least that’s how it was described in our itinerary. We enlisted the services of Butterfield and Robinson, a Toronto based active travel company that specialize in hiking and biking trips all over [...]
The Best Thing I Ate Today in Umbria – Day 3
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Italy, Travel, Umbria on October 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I recently took an incredible trip to the Italian region of Umbria. My initial plan was to blog each day I was away, about the best thing I had eaten that day. There is an old Yiddish proverb “Mentsch tracht, Gott lacht”, which roughly translated means, “Man plans, God laughs.” In case you missed it, [...]
