jmc
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Hello Slow Travelers!
First, many thanks to @Ian Sutton who responded to some questions I posted about Piemonte and specifically Torino on the Wine Berserkers board, which led to this AMAZING Place!
At some level, I think my wife and I have always been slow travelers, beginning with 10 days in Venice for our honeymoon waaaaayyy back in 2002. We had to "re-learn" we were slow travelers in 2019 when we split 13 days between Dijon, Lyon, and Bordeaux, lost a ton of stuff, travleing and always felt a bit rushed, running from one place to another.
We feel the "gift" of slow travel (and perhaps many agree) is the people we get to know a bit as opposed to "meet" along the way. We will never forget one of trips to Rome when we stayed for two weeks in an apartment in the Prati. The owners recommended Cantiani on Via Cola di Rienzo for morning coffee. The first day we walked in, we totally screwed it up and paid at the counter *before* going to the bar and ordering our coffee and Cornetti, and just about sent the Nona over the edge.
We watched and learned, you order and drink and eat first and *then* take the ticket to counter to pay on the way out. We made a point to go there every day, except for one or two day trips. Slowly the Nona forgave and even smiled at us, we got to know the baristas who would see us walk in and start our coffee, and to say hello to the othe regulars. On our last day, when we told Nona we had to go home, we got tears and a big hug - so precious.
Likewise, our first ever wine tour with a guy named Vincent Pontet in Lyon, have evolved into deep friendship over the years.
I am sure the stories like this are legion and I just want to say thank you to everyone for all the great information, I cannot wait to read and learn and contribute after our trip to Torino this fall.
First, many thanks to @Ian Sutton who responded to some questions I posted about Piemonte and specifically Torino on the Wine Berserkers board, which led to this AMAZING Place!
At some level, I think my wife and I have always been slow travelers, beginning with 10 days in Venice for our honeymoon waaaaayyy back in 2002. We had to "re-learn" we were slow travelers in 2019 when we split 13 days between Dijon, Lyon, and Bordeaux, lost a ton of stuff, travleing and always felt a bit rushed, running from one place to another.
We feel the "gift" of slow travel (and perhaps many agree) is the people we get to know a bit as opposed to "meet" along the way. We will never forget one of trips to Rome when we stayed for two weeks in an apartment in the Prati. The owners recommended Cantiani on Via Cola di Rienzo for morning coffee. The first day we walked in, we totally screwed it up and paid at the counter *before* going to the bar and ordering our coffee and Cornetti, and just about sent the Nona over the edge.
We watched and learned, you order and drink and eat first and *then* take the ticket to counter to pay on the way out. We made a point to go there every day, except for one or two day trips. Slowly the Nona forgave and even smiled at us, we got to know the baristas who would see us walk in and start our coffee, and to say hello to the othe regulars. On our last day, when we told Nona we had to go home, we got tears and a big hug - so precious.
Likewise, our first ever wine tour with a guy named Vincent Pontet in Lyon, have evolved into deep friendship over the years.
I am sure the stories like this are legion and I just want to say thank you to everyone for all the great information, I cannot wait to read and learn and contribute after our trip to Torino this fall.
