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Where to eat in the Langhe | Living in the Langhe
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Living in the Langhe. Renovating, drinking wine and running Villa Ribota in Piemonte, Italy. Things to do in the Langhe. Where to eat in the Langhe. With hundreds of great restaurants to choose from, it’s not easy picking where to dine in the Langhe. So, here are a few of my favourite spots. I can only write about my own experiences, so expect this list to grow – a little too slowly for my liking – over time. Strada Fontanazza 4, La Morra, 39 0173 50718, http:/ www.locandafontanazza.it/. A little way dow...
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Welcome to troll town! | Living in the Langhe
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Living in the Langhe. Renovating, drinking wine and running Villa Ribota in Piemonte, Italy. Things to do in the Langhe. Welcome to troll town! August 11, 2015. We’ve finally hit the big time we have not just one, but two facebook trolls. I didn’t realise sympathetically renovating an old house could incite such hatred, but I guess I underestimated the power of the troll. 8221; screamed the first, all in capital letters. For you non-Italian speakers, that means SHAME! Let’s talk instead about respecting ...
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The Power of Positivity | Living in the Langhe
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Living in the Langhe. Renovating, drinking wine and running Villa Ribota in Piemonte, Italy. Things to do in the Langhe. The Power of Positivity. July 27, 2015. In Life in Italy. Don’t worry, I haven’t gone all new age, motivational blogger on you (although I hear there’s a lot of money in it, so maybe watch this space), but as of now I am a firm believer in the power of positive thinking. He has 50 metres of surgical thread and hundreds of staples holding him together, but he’s remarkably alert and chir...
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Living in the Langhe. Renovating, drinking wine and running Villa Ribota in Piemonte, Italy. Things to do in the Langhe. The Langhe’s best town? Novello, of course! June 18, 2016. Valerie from Girl’s Gotta Drink has been rather busy lately not having a drink and instead having a baby. As a result, she doesn’t have much time for blogging right now, so she […]. Read Article →. The best way to see the Langhe. May 2, 2016. Read Article →. Things to do in the Langhe. February 11, 2016. It’s a […]. It’s the st...
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Snowmageddon | Living in the Langhe
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Living in the Langhe. Renovating, drinking wine and running Villa Ribota in Piemonte, Italy. Things to do in the Langhe. February 9, 2015. In Life in Italy. It’s been an interesting week… Last Tuesday it started snowing and it just didn’t stop. By Wednesday afternoon we were well and truly snowed in and by Thursday morning we were all going just a little insane. I spent an entire afternoon introducing Bee to Taylor Swift’s back catalogue. That’s how bad it got. And voting for us I would really appreciate...
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Quanto Costa? | Living in the Langhe
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Living in the Langhe. Renovating, drinking wine and running Villa Ribota in Piemonte, Italy. Things to do in the Langhe. November 16, 2014. Every couple of days our Geometra,. Comes up to us, grinning from ear to ear. Ho un’idea! He says excitedly. We listen to this idea of his, and it’s normally a very good idea, but then inevitably have to utter the two words he’s dreading Quanto costa? How much does it cost? The wall of doom is all done now and is back underground where it belongs. And then there is t...
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How to become authentically Piemontese in five easy steps | Living in the Langhe
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Living in the Langhe. Renovating, drinking wine and running Villa Ribota in Piemonte, Italy. Things to do in the Langhe. How to become authentically Piemontese in five easy steps. June 11, 2015. In Life in Italy. Don’t fancy looking like a tourist on your next trip to Piemonte? Here are five tips to help you become authentically Piemontese! 1 Learn some dialect. Mersi grazie, thanks. Bin bene, good. Bon dí bongiorno, hello. Dman domani, tomorrow. Ca casa, house. Monsu signore, Mr. Ista estate, summer.
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What a week! | Living in the Langhe
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Living in the Langhe. Renovating, drinking wine and running Villa Ribota in Piemonte, Italy. Things to do in the Langhe. February 26, 2015. In Life in Italy. Who needs words when you’ve got photos… Instead of rambling on, I thought I’d just share a few images from the past week here in snowy, sunny, occasionally rainy, but always beautiful Piemonte! The underfloor heating is down and the boiler is ready to be fired up. Things are really flying right now! We’ve done a. And there have been some nice sunsets.
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And breathe… | Living in the Langhe
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Living in the Langhe. Renovating, drinking wine and running Villa Ribota in Piemonte, Italy. Things to do in the Langhe. June 29, 2015. The past couple of months have been ridiculous. We haven’t stopped. Sanding, painting, filling, painting again, chasing, deciding, organising, calling, sanding and a bit more painting. Finally though, all that work is starting to pay off as the house is really coming together. Either that or the lack of sleep is making us lose our minds and we just. We’re really ha...
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Surprises of the good kind | Living in the Langhe
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Living in the Langhe. Renovating, drinking wine and running Villa Ribota in Piemonte, Italy. Things to do in the Langhe. Surprises of the good kind. December 3, 2014. As you’d expect, most of the surprises we’ve stumbled across so far during the renovation have been of the relatively bad kind s upporting walls that don’t exist. Rotten beams, snakes in the well (that’s not a sequel to a very bad film, it’s a real thing! But we’ve finally uncovered a couple of rather nice surprises. Still, there’s definite...
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