Italians trip me out. Good people. Oh, and regardless of the title, there is no mention of porno film so those with sensitive eyes, feel free to keep reading...
Lake Como was awesome. Had some amazing bass right out of the lake our last night and took the boat over to Bellagio that day. We had nothing but sun. Beautiful and about 70 degrees.
We caught a train back Milan and then to Venice. Got to our hotel around 2pm and settled in. Sadly to say, compared to our last hotel, it was not as nice. The hotel was very beautiful but the staff was autonimitonic to say the least and there was a smell that started in the bathroom (both Erin and I deny being the source) that moved its way to the bedroom as our stay progressed. The next 2 days were a bit overcast but we still managed to get lost in the back streets (Matt and Paul, I was demoted several times and had the map taken away from me). We had an AWESOME dinner there that beat our top dinner to date in Lake Como. Muscles, clams, squid and other delicious fruiti di mare. The guy who owned the place was just one more glass of red wine (for Erin) away from convincing Erin to leave me for him. The guy had game, no doubt about it. Plus he was like 60...so unfair. Bastardo.
We caught a train out of Venice and down to Sienna where our hotel totally redeemed itself from Venice. Super nice and made reservations for us at a local farm for cooking classes. We met the guy about 10 clicks from his farm and followed him in. Super nice guy that was a Vet (the animal doctor, not war hero) that just farmed as a hobby. Erin and I called bullshit on a number of things but didn't change the fact that he was very nice and his wife, who couldn't speak a lick of English was a dynamite cook! She instructed and he translated and we tried, unsuccessfully to do what she said before the got pissed off and took over what we were doing. That worked out well cause we cause take a wine break then. We made two pastas, pork tenderloin (from his butchered, free-range pig) tiramisu, 3 kinds of wine, including a super Tuscan, fracaccia cheese and god knows what else. Everything except for the cheese and wine, we made. Very cool.
Erin loved Sienna and I was glad to go back to remember it a bit better. We picked up our car (Fiat Panda, rest assured, we have pictures) and headed north to our agriturismo which is nice. It rained on us the entire day yesterday but the sun is out today and Erin is getting a great look at the Tuscan landscape. Belisima! We're in Florence today (day trip) and will figure out tonight whether we come back tomorrow or the next day'.
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