HisOnlyness: Wanderlust » In Transit http://hisonlyness.com/wanderlust more about food, adventure and travel Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:29:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Leaving Whimsical Venezia for the Countryside http://hisonlyness.com/wanderlust/2009/10/19/leaving-whimsical-venezia-for-the-countryside/ http://hisonlyness.com/wanderlust/2009/10/19/leaving-whimsical-venezia-for-the-countryside/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:16:20 +0000 admin http://hisonlyness.com/wanderlust/?p=109 Today we woke up early and did a little minor exploring over by the Guggenheim museum before leaving.  We came back, bought some prosciutto, pasta and onion and I made a little lunch with the chiodini mushrooms over the pasta.  We made it safely to Piazzale Roma with our bags and sanity, which, if you’ve ever ventured over the bridges of Venice with rolling luggage, is almost impressive.  Turns out the car comes with built in navigation which, if you know my family at all, is absolutely necessary.  (I have a superb sense of direction but everyone else doesn’t always listen to my advice…)  We still decided to use our handy little Garmin as a backup, just in case.

I love diesel.  We made it on one tank of gas and even stopped over in a small walled hill town for a cappuccino on the way.  We are staying in Bagnoreggio, near Orvieto at Locanda Romantica Pucci.  It’s cute and Rick Steves loves it, which makes me like it less just because.  However, Pucci, the lady who runs the place, is funny, entertaining and the first thing she said to us when we walked in was, “I hate my chef, I’m looking for a new one.”  She took us straight to a restaurant called Il Frantoio (www.ilfrantoiolubriano.it).  It was a great little neighborhood spot located in a nearby town called Lubriano.  This kind of place is my favorite kind of restaurant in Italy: it’s like good old fashion home cooking.  It’s also located in a hillside, underground where they used make and store olive oil.  So that’s kind of neat to see also.  Here’s our meal:

  1. Gnocchi con porcini e tartufo
  2. Polenta with pork ribs
  3. Tagliata con tartufo
  4. Bisteca Chinina
  5. Spinaci
  6. Arugala and Carrot Salad
  7. Coconut gelato

Let me elaborate.  The gnocchi was perfectly cooked, served in a light tartufo cream sauce.  The Polenta was light and very fine – perhaps white polenta – served under a very finely seasoned tomato sauce with ground pork spare ribs.   The tagliata is steak and it was served medium rare with tartuffo.  Yes, lots of tartuffo.  The spinach was simple and so good, cooked in olive oil with pepperoni.  Definitely go here if you are within 100 Kilo of it.   I’m going back tomorrow for pizza lessons.  Pictures from the meal will be in the next post.

The roads here are very windy and very dark and we have no idea what the landscape looks like because we can’t see anything except for what is directly in front of us.  However, our headlights turn when the car turns, which is very handy.  I haven’t been this full in a long time.

Locanda Pucci Potigliano from across the way - with a Synagogue in Potigliano a little street and a little woman the synagogue dead sunflower field Inside the Duomo in Orvieto the Duomo in Orvieto, sideways of course photographing confession booths in the Duomo in Orvieto ]]> http://hisonlyness.com/wanderlust/2009/10/19/leaving-whimsical-venezia-for-the-countryside/feed/ 0 I kinda like airports http://hisonlyness.com/wanderlust/2009/10/15/i-kinda-like-airports/ http://hisonlyness.com/wanderlust/2009/10/15/i-kinda-like-airports/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:09:31 +0000 admin http://hisonlyness.com/wanderlust/2009/10/17/i-kinda-like-airports/ There are some airports I actually like, opposed to most that I actually dislike. The Philadelphia airport isnt bad. There was a little art show displaying all kinds of collectibles including floaty pens (below in case you were deprived of a childhood) and there were rocking chairs everywhere. I snapped a pic of a cute couple enjoying the view of the sunset over the runways. Other than that, we made it. I watched Angels and Demons and the Passover episode of Curb and restarted Outliers. The Catholic Church rocks, Larry David is the man, Outliers makes me feel so very normal.

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]]> http://hisonlyness.com/wanderlust/2009/10/15/i-kinda-like-airports/feed/ 0 Six-Word Memoirs http://hisonlyness.com/wanderlust/2009/10/14/six-word-memoirs/ http://hisonlyness.com/wanderlust/2009/10/14/six-word-memoirs/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:49:04 +0000 admin http://hisonlyness.com/wanderlust/2009/10/14/30/ The woman sitting next to me on the first leg of my journey just directed me to a very cool website that features six-word memoirs. Check them out at SmithMag. She happens to be the founders mom. Cool. Heres mine:

Adventuring in Europe, back in December.

1A, so they tell me… and here we go.

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