I will be heading off to Italy within the next couple of months. I plan on staying at least three months...possibly as much as six months. I will be based in Milan. I am looking for suggestions of places to photograph. Aside from Tuscany, Florence, Venice, and Sicily, what other places would you recommend?
Dear Don,
I'll probably get slammed for being negative, but really BE CAREFUL ON THE ROADS. The first time I ever went to Italy I'd been there 45 minutes when I was rear-ended (on the motorcycle) and Frances was thrown over my head; the second time, a few years later, I took the Land Rover for obvious reasons. Two things stick in my memory. One is that if Frances had opened the car door a fraction of a second later in a car park, one car-width from the wall, she's have lost a leg to the idiot who shot between us and the wall at 40 mph. The other is that on a tour of maybe 3000 to 4000 miles though half a dozen or more countries, we saw five serious, possibly fatal accidents in Italy and none anywhere else (France, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Luxembourg).
Yes, we got lots of good pictures while Frances was recuperating in Aoste from the first accident. Just sit in any square, in any village, at a café table or even on a park bench, and you can get incredible people shots (not usually with LF, I'll grant you). And with LF you can shoot what I call the 'hand of man': hilltop villages, terraced walls, rag-cut slate roofs, dry-stone walls, all kinds of things where people have gently and sustainably modified the countryside for thousands of years. I find this much more attractive than what I call 'empty' or 'pseudo-wilderness' landscapes.
But on the road, BE CAREFUL. The Italians are the worst and most aggressive drivers I've found anywhere, including Greece, Mexico, Malta and even China.
Cheers,
R.
First of all: if in Asti please don't drink only Nebbiolo but Moscato too (sweet dessert wine)First stage of the trip is planned and booked: Two nights in Asti.
So the question now is where do we go next? From Nebbiolo to Corvina, or Sangiovese?
First of all: if in Asti please don't drink only Nebbiolo but Moscato too (sweet dessert wine)
Then: for my tastes I prefer Corvina ( + Rondinella = Amarone di Valpolicella)
Ruchè? really a nice wine to taste and drinkNot only Nebbiolo (Barolo, Barbaresco) and Moscato and Barbera and Dolcetto, but it just happens that the hotel we've booked is in the area of the Ruchè di Castagnole Monferrato. Which I've never heard about before, and that is always an exellent reason for tasting.
We've discovered there is a small botanical garden half way up the Monte Baldo, so since my wife has a keen interest in gardening, and especially alpine plants, the Verona area is getting more and more likely
and Amarone and Recioto and Recioto di Soave...
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