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The Wine Harvest - Making wine in Italy 2007-09-26 21:57:32 I remember my mother telling me about her move to Southern California, and how excited she was the first time she picked an orange off a tree and ate it right there. I was thinking, like... ok, big deal... you need to get out more! But then again, she was from New York, and I had been born and raised in L.A. After all, I had never seen an apple tree... In fact, at 42 years, I still have never seen an apple tree. Maybe I'm the one that needs to get out [...] Read more:Italy
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You can travel to Italy without worrying about the weak Dollar 2007-09-25 23:17:19 In the past year, the value of the dollar has fallen 10% against the Euro. That means if the price of something in Europe has not changed, it costs you 10% more if you earn your money in US Dollar
s. In other words, a hotel rate of E.200 per night a year ago translated into $242, and today it translates into $282. OK, that's bad. But if you are considering a vacation in Italy
, there is a way to be almost completely unaffected by this with DiscoverSoriano.com. Discov [...]
Soccer Fanaticism in Italy – Because they cant feed Christians to the lions anymore 2007-09-24 10:21:04 I love Football (Go USC!) & Baseball (Go Dodgers!).. I'm an American after all. But I have never been able to sink my heart into Soccer
. So having spent all of these years in Italy
, I've never been to a serious professional Soccer match. I've been to the small ones, but never ‘Stadium Sized' games. That changed yesterday.I'll write this article aimed at people that are not up to speed in the world of European Soccer, so I [...] Read more:Christians
Would you have a second home in Italy? 2007-09-21 23:23:46 It used to be that when I would come to Italy
, for the first few days, people would see me and give me a huge ‘welcome back’. That was then. I would come here once a year in the summer and spend a month to six weeks here. Michael and Paola are here… it must be summer, right? Big hugs, dinner invites, the whole nine yards.But now things are different. I got here yesterday and there was no fanfare. Not a single dinner invite, not eve [...]
The Medieval Swordsmen of Soriano nel Cimino 2007-09-17 07:54:11 For those of you that will be coming to Soriano for the Chestnut Festival, I thought I would post a video that shows a few of the highlights. This video is a promotional piece by Soriano nel Cimino's Medieval Swordsmen. While they perform at many festivals all over the world, being from Soriano, they perform at each and every festival in the town.This video concentrates on them, but many of the video clips are taken during the Chestnut Festival (Sagra delle Ca [...]
40th Annual Chestnut Festival (Sagra delle Castagne) Schedule - 2007 2007-09-12 08:28:27 40th AnnualChestnutFestival
(Sagra delle Castagne) Schedule
- 2007 Every year, during the first two weeks of October, Soriano nel Cimino hosts a festival that surrounds the chestnut harvest. This festival is done on a large scale, and attracts thousands of people from surrounding areas, including Rome. The two main events of the Sagra are the Palio and the Corteo Storico. Unfortunately, we don't know which days these will be held until shortly before the festival. That said, the [...]
Slow down and let your vacation happen 2007-09-10 05:01:51 Have you ever been on a vacation and come home having the feeling that you need a vacation from your vacation? Have you ever phoned home and said something to the effect of ‘We’re exhausted, but we’ve seen this, and that, and that, and that, and that’? When you plan trips, do you juggle your itinerary to try to fit things in?If the answer to any of those is YES, read on.Growing up, my family traveled quite a bit, and in my adult life I have c [...]
Your second trip to Italy may be your first 2007-09-09 02:54:09 We’ve been renting homes to travelers for over a year now, and I’ve noticed two distinct groups of people: ‘Italy
first-timers’ and ‘Italian culture chasers’. In all honesty, some, albeit very few, of the first-timers truly resemble the culture chasers. The ‘first-timers’ are the people that have finally made it to Italy forthe first time. They have been dreaming about it for years, and have seen ‘Under the T [...]
The Tuscia in Jazz Festival 2007-08-14 03:36:31 For the first time, Soriano hosted the Tuscia in Jazz Festival
. This international festival had been held in nearby Ronciglione for the past five years, but apparently that town had complained about the noise and decided they didn’t want it anymore. The festival promoter, Italo Leali, was faced with the chore of finding a new host last year. According to Italo, he chose Soriano for several reasons: It has very good access to Rome, Florence and Italy’s mai [...]
Another summer in Soriano ends 2007-08-14 03:34:04 This has perhaps been my busiest summer ever here in Soriano. So much so, that I have had no time to blog… how typical of me! That said, I’ll try to do a series of posts over the next few weeks to recap the highlights of this awesome ‘Summer Sorianese’-
Olive Garden cooking school in Tuscany? 2007-05-26 03:20:54 Olive Garden
is one of those places that really sets my blood to boil. Every time I hear the word 'Hospitaliano' I begin to cringe and twitch. When I hear them say 'When you're here, you're family', I can't help but visualize the corporate offices of a chain with nearly 700 cookie-cutter restaurants. I'd just love to show up there one day waving my hands saying 'Ciao!!! It's cousin Michael'. I wonder what kind of Hospitaliano I will receive when I h [...] Read more:Olive
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This Blog about Italy is about to go into Video Blogging Overdrive 2008-04-08 18:00:00 Let's face it... when I am in the US, this blog runs pretty dry. After all, a blog about Italy
doesn't do too well when you are sitting at a computer in Florida. Well, that is soon to change.On May 12, I'll be heading over again, and this time I will be there for 5 months straight. No back and [...] Read more:Blogging
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Tuscia in Jazz Festival 2008 - Schedule 2008-04-26 02:01:57 DiscoverSoriano.com is a proud sponsor of this year's Jazz Festival
in Soriano. We hope you will come and see us! We'll be filming a great deal of the festival this year in High Definition, as well as conducting numerous interviews.This is the preliminary schedule for the 2008 Jazz festival in Soriano. Most performances begin around 9:00 PM in Soriano's main Piazza. Some performances will take place in the City Hall Courtyard. Keep in mind that more events are likely to be adde [...] Read more:Schedule
So Goes Our 1st Tour of 2008 2008-04-25 19:00:00 {mosimage}16 days to go before I make my trek to Italy for 5 months this year, but our tours have started. Fortunately, so that I could get some last minute work done and finish coaching our son's baseball team, Paola went over ahead of me for our first tour of the year.Scott & Michelle (from Texas), and Don & MaryAnn (from Washington) are our guests for this week that ends tomorrow. They have chosen to do a somewhat custom itinerary that more or less mi [...]
Dances with Mozzarella 2008-08-26 19:00:00 For my first video post in a while, I thought I would start with a cool little video compilation made of some of the video I shot during some of the cooking classes we had earlier in the season. This video concentrates on 3 groups we had in May and June of 2008 -- I’m not sure why I didn’t break out the video camera for more groups. Featured in this video are: Mary, Er
Where has the time gone? 2008-08-26 19:00:00 So it has been an incredibly busy season for us this year… o the point that we sold out most of the tours this year. Not bad when you hear all over the news how Americans just aren’t travelling to Europe thanks to the weak dollar, right? Anyhow, the consequence of being so incredibly busy is that I have had absolutely no time to contribute to this blog this season.
Recession-proof your vacation with DiscoverSoriano.com 2008-10-06 19:00:00 With so much uncertainty ahead with the economy, skyrocketing fuel prices, and the drastic drop of the Dollar against the Euro over the past couple years; many people have been concerned about planning travel. In fact, during the 2008 season, most of Europe has seen a sharp drop in tourism for these very reasons. We at DiscoverSoriano haven’t felt the negative impact. To t Read more:Recession
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