10/11/14
Day 1: Orienna and I packed up and started driving around 9am on a overcast Saturday morning. We had such a good chat and then listened to and audio book until we reached Munich and had lunch at our favorite Thai place, Manam. After lunch, we finished driving to Italy. The drive was actually pretty amazing. I'm always taken aback with Austria's absolute loveliness. The massive mountains or rolling hills...the green pastures are so picturesque.
When we reached Sacile, where our friend Emily and her husband, Brian, and their baby girl, Charolette, all live. After we got settled and then headed to Sacile's food festival. We met some of Emily and Brian's friends, drank lots of wine and ate some pretty delicious food. Mainly cheese, but with a little bit of bread and other bits too.
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| On our way to Sacile Centro for the festival |
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| Me, Emily & Orienna having a little Prosecco |
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| Emily, Charlotte, Brian, & Orienna talking at a cafe. |
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| It fluctuated between raining and being really warm and nice |
Emily, Orienna and I stayed out until around 2am when all the food vendors were packing up and getting ready to leave. We walked home and called it a night!
10/12/14
Day 2: When we finally woke up and got moving, we walked to the train station and started off our journey to Venice! It wasn't a terribly long ride and we talked the whole way there so it seemed to go quickly.
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| The grand canals of Venice! |
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| It's no wonder there are so many paintings of Venice... |
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| Love the gondolas |
We realized we were very hungry and started looking for a nice place to eat. The views along the way were pretty incredible.
We found a really cute cafe that had delicious food and great Italian coffee.
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| Our view from the cafe |
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| Emily & Orienna waiting for our food |
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| Surprisingly I actually liked the clams and muscles. They had a delicious white wine broth! |
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| Italian cappuccino |
After lunch, we kept walking towards the Rialto bridge and St. Mark's square.
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| I just love the details on the buildings |
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| So many tourists! |
The shops were also pretty fantastic. A little expensive to just buy anything I wanted but I wanted to save my money for Nove and all the ceramics the next day so I kept on my budget and happily just enjoyed the sights.
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| I would have loved to have gotten the body made of metal masks... |
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| They looked delicious but were actually all pre-frozed, frost bitten and pretty bad. |
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| The Rialto Bridge |
Before heading back to Sacile, we got to spend a little time in St. Marks Square.
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| St. Mark's Square |
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| Emily, me & Orienna in St. Mark's Square |
After our glorious day in Venice we headed back. We were well happy and ready for our day of shopping the next day.
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| Farewell Venice |
10/13/14
Day 3: Nove day!!! I was so excited to go back to the ceramics store and load up on loot and gifts!
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| A portion of my Nove buys. |
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| I'm so in love with the Vietri Pitcher! |
After we shopped until we almost dropped, we went home and started cooking for Canadian Thanksgiving! Orienna and Emily are Canadian so we got to have delicious turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes...the whole works!
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| Canadian Thanksgiving |
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| Settlers of Catan was our post dinner game! |
10/14/14
Day 4: For our last day in Italy, we met up with a couple more of Emily's friends, Cayla & Leena, and began our day of wineries and fresh Italian food. We began our trip to Valdobbienne and the Villa Sandi Vineyard. Although they had said they would open by 10:30 and could accommodate us, they were actually getting ready for a large party and weren't really excited about giving us a tasting.
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| Little restaurant across from Villa Sandi Vineyards |
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| Orienna, Leena, Cayla, & Emily heading into Villa Sandi |
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| The ladies looking at the wine selection |
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| They had a great wine tasting room in the back |
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| Very cool gift shop room with reasonable prices |
We only spent about 30 minutes at the first place since the guy really didn't want to help us much. It didn't stop us however from buying Prosecco from them! :)
The next place we went, we found just by driving around and seeing the building! The lady that helped us at Torre Zecchei could not have been nicer and her family owned the vineyard.
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| Emily, Leena, & Cayla listening to our hostess |
This was such a fun place to visit and I look forward to visiting again sometime. After Torre Zecchei's, we went to lunch at a great little place that also acts as a hotel.
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| Our view during lunch |
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| Leena & Emily having a giggle while me & Orienna took pictures |
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| The lovely Orienna |
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| I had rabbit and some delicious Prosecco & Pear Risotto |
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| A little after lunch machiato |
After lunch, we went to La Tordera winery before heading home. We of course bought a ton more wine there!
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| Me, Cayla, Emily, Leena & Orienna at La Tordera |
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| The map we used at our tasting. It shows the wine areas. |
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| The picture mounted at La Tordera of their vineyards |
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| Parts of the actual vineyards |
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| Emily & Orienna cramming all our wine into the car |
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| A perfect ending to a perfect holiday! |
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