It’s been a while since I brought up shopping here in Bolzano/Bozen, so I thought we’d talk today about another one of the major differences I’ve found between shopping in Italy and North America: the experience of going to the farmacia. In North America, the term “drug store” no longer means a place just for “drugs” per se, but rather Read the rest of this entry »
We interrupt the previously planned post to bring you breaking news from the Alto Adige. Over the 10 day period, 19 (!) people have died while gathering mushrooms on the slopes of the mountains around here. The blog post title is a translation of the original article CC saw on Monday in the La Republicca, a national Italian language newspaper.
The theme in August for the Picture of the Week is Agriculture. This week’s image is a look at another locally grown fruit: strawberries:
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Note: as I was off on vacation earlier this month, all this week I’ve been catching up with the “Picture of the Week” posts for August.
The theme in August for the Picture of the Week is Agriculture. This week’s image is a peek inside the vineyard on the grounds of Castle Marecchio, which was featured in an earlier Picture of the Week:
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Note: as I was off on vacation earlier this month, all this week I’m catching up with the “Picture of the Week” posts for August.
The theme in August for the Picture of the Week is Agriculture. This week’s image is of the vineyard on the grounds of Castle Marecchio:
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Note: as I was off on vacation earlier this month, all this week I’m catching up with the “Picture of the Week” posts for August.
The theme in August for the Picture of the Week is Agriculture. This week’s image shows not just vineyards, but also the other big local crop, apples. While the white apple blossoms are really beautiful when you see them up close, they are even more impressive when you see a valley of them while standing in front of a castle on a hillside above the nearby town of San Paolo: Read the rest of this entry »
Note: as I was off on vacation earlier this month, all this week I’ll be catching up with the “Picture of the Week” posts for August.
The theme in August for the Picture of the Week is Agriculture. This week’s image shows the grape vines in a vineyard on the outskirts of Bolzano/Bozen, just after the growing season starts in the spring: Read the rest of this entry »
We’ve just returned from our summer vacation to England: London, the Fens, Bath, and Cornwall. Jolly good and all that. Read the rest of this entry »
In true Italian style, CC and I are taking the first two weeks of August as our “summer vacation”. So, regular Betwixt and Between in BZ blog posts will resume after ferragosto, the Italian holiday period that ends in mid August. Look for new posts to start again on August 18th. To tide you over, though, Read the rest of this entry »
So, for the final Postcards from Bolzano post for this month, I thought perhaps I should talk about the “big picture”. Read the rest of this entry »
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