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<\/a><\/p>\nWe hiked up the Collina d’Oro to Agra on a gorgeous day, and stopped at a place Bob had visited 38 years before for a beer (or two) and a salad.<\/p>\n
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FELDSCHL\u00d6SSCHEN<\/h3>\n
Feldschl\u00f6sschen (“small castle in the field”) is the beer of Bob’s youth.\u00a0The brewery, founded in Rhinefelden in 1876, is the largest in Switzerland.<\/p>\n It’s Swiss for “beer.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Odeon is in downtown Lugano, a bar where Bob got his kneecap broken on Valentine’s Day 1976. We stopped in for a beer, with no injuries.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The food section of the giant Manor store (was Innovazione back in the day) was impressive – like Whole Foods but with European fare. On the right is Salumeria Gabbani, offering quality meats, cheeses and wines since 1937.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pizza, focaccia, cakes – yes, we gained a few pounds.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This was over the top. Raclette<\/a>\u00a0gets it’s name from the French word “racler” – to scrape. The cheese is melted by heat until brown and bubbly, then scraped onto a plate with fingerling potatoes, pickled gherkins, and served with bread and prosciutto.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On to Italy and a taste of Moretti, a fine Italian beer. Bob enjoyed some afternoon reading time in a nearby cafe with his Kindle and a glass of limoncello<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bob was on a multiple cappuccino-a-day jag while Camille was more interested in sampling the many flavors of gelato.\u00a0We bought some roasted chestnuts from a vendor next to Trevi Fountain, and sat out a thunderstorm over lunch at a cafe near the Victor Emmanuel monument.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We had a fine seaside meal at Ristorante di Roberto, a suggestion from our B&B host Davide. Opposite the sea view was the view of the waiters dodging traffic with our dinners.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The bread in Sicily was exquisite, at our B&B we had fresh breads each morning from the local bakery. Here we had a picnic of bread, cheese, and water on our hike back to our B&B from Taormina.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It gets no better than this.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Of our four days in Sicily, we spent part of three of them at the Puerto Rico Beach Club near our B&B. Great view, clear water, beautiful beach pebbles, and Pannini Rustico – a sandwich with sliced cheese, tomato, fresh basil, and grilled eggplant. Oh, and Birra Messina – Sicily’s most famous beer.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On our way home, we spent a night near Milan’s airport in Somma Lombardo, with a quaint village center and another nice cafe. Diego, our waiter was a charming fellow who was able to hook us up with great vegetarian fare even though the kitchen was closed mid-afternoon. The first course was a variety of local cheeses – fresh mozzarella (the very soft white one) and toma – a specialty of the Lombardy piedmont region.These were served with walnuts and honey, as well as a nice german wheat beer.<\/p>\n Excellent food and drink on the continent Switzerland and Italy, June 12 – 24, 2014 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n RISTORANTE PENSIONE AGRA <\/p>\n \n We hiked up the Collina d’Oro to Agra on a gorgeous day, and stopped at a place Bob had visited 38 years before for a beer (or two) and a salad.<\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sub-story","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7107"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7792,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions\/7792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nOSTERIA ODEON<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nDOWNTOWN LUGANO – CHEESE AND SALAMI<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nDELI DELIGHTS<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nRACLETTE<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nFLORENCE – BEER AND LIMONCELLO<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nROME<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nSICILY<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nSICILAN BREAD<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nCAMPARI AND SODA ON THE BEACH<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nPUERTO RICO BEACH CLUB<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nMILAN – SOMMA LOMBARDO<\/h3>\n
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[Troutsfarm]<\/a>\u00a0* [June, 2014]<\/a>\u00a0* [Camille’s Birthday Party]<\/a>\u00a0* [TASIS Reunion]<\/a> * [Lugano]<\/a> * [Gastronomy]<\/a>\u00a0* [Hike Up to the Collina d’Oro]<\/a> * [Valle Verzasca]<\/a> * [Monte Bre and Morcote]<\/a> * [Florence]<\/a> * [Art Museums in Florence]<\/a> * [Rome]<\/a> * [The Vatican]<\/a> * [Sicily]<\/a> * [Touring\u00a0Taormina<\/a>] * [A Drive to Mt. Etna]<\/a><\/h4>\n
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