I recently wrote a post about being a tourist again in your new country, which a gremlin seems to have eaten. Which is a pity really, as if I have to rewrite it I'm not sure I can work-up the same fervour I had after we had shown some guests around our Italian world a few weeks ago. We had to listen to them saying it's beautiful its bella and fantastico so often, it reminded us we were like that too not so long ago, and we wanted to return to that state:
Heres some of the things we found bella:
The lakes above Como, Cortona,Tuscan villages, seafood , real pasta, the boatman handling the ropes at our stops on the tragetto, and putting out the little metal bridge for us, and saying"attenti piede" a million times without seeming bored. The laverello served on lake Como. The shops, a fashion lovers dream. The gelato, even Milano has great gelato. You have to try-if you can find it, fondente, real dark chocolate icecream! now that is trully Bello!.