Hot Summer Review
Hot and Muggy, that is what we are experiencing right now here outside of Venice. Venice, with all that water will be worse. What I need right now is a nice cold frappe’, and a nice rain shower after.
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| Monselice Castle |
Here’s a shot of our American cowboy burger restaurant, if you look behind it, you will see a castle on top of the hill above Monselice, a small town south of Padova. You can see the grass is brown from lack of water. Another lack of, is the ketchup we asked for.
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| Cheap Burger Joint! |
We both had fries and they brought us three packs of ketchup. This was after I asked for molto ketchup…..a lot. Served for a laugh from us. They charge for each package, learning from McDonalds on this.
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| Open on Weekends |
Another castle near Monselice and viewable from our home is this one. Built much later by a man who was famous as a soldier for hire. Behind this castle is the ruined building where they stored tobacco from their farm and made cigars, etc. This is a paintable castle as it is in pretty good shape and set near a canal with a bridge.
There is another smaller castle west of our home which is famous for its land being an airport for planes in WWI and WWII. There is a museum in side and a fancy restaurant with high prices. We have never eaten there, so I cannot testify to the food. I notice that they host a lot of wedding dinners, etc. Sounds like we are surrounded by castles, which is kind of true. We also have a famous house in the hills where the famous poet Petrarch lived. I like going up there because of the super enoteca featuring some awesome wines grown from the volcanic soil of the hills. They have a terrace overlooking the valley below and Padova beyond, and we can sit and have an appetizer of local salami, cheeses and bread with our vino.
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| Choices |
Soon we will drive to Austria for a few days and the temperature will drop from near 100 to mid 60’s. That will be so nice. Plus we are going to a beer hotel where they make many types of beer. Austria is so different from Italy, it feels like a theme park to me, so clean and kept perfect.
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For my web cam friends, this is one that features the view across the big canal towards the church where you can go up in the elevator for a terrific view of all the islands of Venice. Today the color of the sky is a yellow green from the humidity, I hope the rain will clear it later. Go view:
Ciao!
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