Because we had some wonderful times & took many, many pictures, I thought I would dedicate a separate post to our first weekend all together.
Nicole & I drove down to Venice to pick her up and much like our flight three weeks ago, it took her forever to get her luggage. Even though we were 15 minutes late arriving for her flight, we waited almost an hour before she walked out!
After driving her home, introducing her to Cindy the dog & Suzie the cat, we got her settled in and had a couple of spritzes to contemplate what to do for dinner that evening.
Sitting in our regular spot in front of the kids' house.
A visit to the nearby village of Vivaro and pizza at our newly discovered favorite restaurant won out.
As we were trying to park the car, a horse drawn carriage carrying a newly married couple rode by- needless to say, a photo was required.
And the five of us relaxing waiting our pizza & vino.
And this time I did get photos of our various individual pizzas before they were gone.
This restaurant has ruined us for pizzas anywhere else probably forever!! LOL
Next day we travelled north through the Dolomites to the small village of Claut for yet another festa. This one would include lots of game meat- wild boar, deer etc.
Some incredible scenery along the way.
The village was lovely, situated in a valley surrounded by 'eye candy'.
And the entire village participated in the festa with food & beer/wine plus many shopping stalls up and down the various streets.
The village is very famous for pine wood carvings- we saw some beautiful sculptures.
This is a local artisan at work using his ancient equipment.
The water is so pure that you can fill up your water bottle right out of the spring- wonderful clear live water and cold!
More village scenes
Bands played on many street corners to entertain us
On the way back home, we stopped at the mountain river alongside the road to refresh our tired feet. Lots of people come here for the day to sun & picnic by the river, The water was freezing!
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