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Sep 15, 2011 - Swine is Divine

We all got up early to get Sonya to the station to go to Pisa. Off to Norica (aka in our house - Pig City).  This town is famous for it's meat.    Sandy is dying to go the market they have there every week. The drive into Norcia was nice.  Found a good parking place right by the Roman arch.  Wandered into town.  It's not a big town but it must have 30 butcher shops, each with a boar's head hanging on the wall outside.  We went to the market which was right outside the wall.  Not exactly what I expected.  More like a flea market with two...

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Aimee's Italy 2011

Sep 2, 2005 - Week Nine

August 27th (Gary) A very slow start and an even easier day, we did eventually make it into Bologna for a few hours, nice place to walk round but somehow not overly memorable, other than a full on Italian arm waving, finger pointing, male hissy fit of an argument at the supermarket tills. Twenty minutes later as we left the Carabanieri police had arrived and were also getting stuck in to the showdown at till six. To round off the day we spent another great evening wandering the stalls, stages and bars of the FestUnita show. Interestingly we...

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