Welcome, Friends and family our goal with this blog is to help you keep tabs on what we've been up to after moving to Italy in 2007, by sharing some of our experiences with you. We have many of our old favorite places yet we always seem to stumble into something really cool just when we think we've seen everything. Our goal is to share these new experiences, along with an occasional wine or travel tip.
Sincerely,
Robert and Leslie Alexander

Unusual Weather This Summer

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We woke up to a very rare snow caped mountains view this week, usually in late June into early July we only have haze and no mountains. The high humidity normally hides the 280° mountain vista's. With the cool spring temps this year the snow has not all melted yet and without the heat no haze.
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Backing up a bit on the zoom the village of Treiso appears the mountains on the horizon.
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Panning to the right ( east ) the tower of Barbaresco is seen in front of the hilltop village of Magliano Alfieri in the Roero wine region.
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Panning down to a Nebbiolo vineyard in front of Treiso, two early morning growers are working away leaf pulling.