Just 48 hours to go. We leave Thursday night at 10:30 so 48 hours from now we will be sitting on a plane at Dulles. Assuming our flight is not cancelled due to security or due to air traffic controllers' strikes in France or Italy.

I will be blogging liberally from Italy. Internet points are a great palce to sober up between bottles. I hope to have a bundle of new restaurant reviews and lots of info on new vintages of wine.

Venezia, Montalcino and Roma.

Have a safe trip! Enjoy! And flood-blog. It's a long winter up here.

Buon viaggio, Dean! And, echoing Doru, blog liberally! Reading about OP's meals (or reading recipes) is a form of meditation for some of us.

Have a safe trip Dean.....BTW AOL is blocking e-mail coming from Italy (non static IP addresses). Tried to reply to your posting but it bounced back.

Passerotto - AOL will block the emails we send sometimes, too. Just keep re-sending - sometimes we have to send 3-4 times to our guests with AOL accounts, but they eventually go through.

Have a great time Dean!

Don't forget to eat some frittelle, and to go to La Cantina....

Try a free Jumpy dial-up account get through to AOL addresses. The big ASDL companies like Alice are blocked by AOL.

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Have a great trip Dean and I look forward to your reports!!

Good trip Dean -- and see you on the 4th in Trastevere.

Bill

Dean, I will be looking for your posts and blogs. Have a wonderful time. May Bacchus lead you to a secret stash of the most amazing wine you've ever tasted.

Have a great trip, Dean. Drink some good wine in my name!

Have a great trip, Dean. Take good notes and we see you on your return.

Buon viaggio...and travel safe.

Have a wonderful trip...we look forward to the blogging! And thanks for all the info on Lucca restaurants, it is a huge help!

Kate

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In Cefalu, Sicily there is a small enoteca that also has three internet terminals. I have never seen this anywhere else. Hopefully you will be able to find one or more on your trip so that you can enjoy both at the same time.

Have fun!

Bruno Dalmozio in Montalcino has 2 computers with pretty fast connections for customer use. They are free as well!!!!! They also have several large wine dispensing machines, but they were broken on our last trip. Hopefully both will be operational this time around. Of course, if I type while drinking Brunello, I may make more typos.

Of course. the typos may cancel out my usual atrocious spelling and everything will come out perfectly spelled!

Have a great trip!

Looking forward to meeting you after we get back from our trip at the next DC GTG.

Buon Viaggio Dean and family.
May you find the fountain of youth/wine I mean.
Cincin
Wendy and Rob

Brunello + Italian keyboard = recipe for disaster.

Have a great time, Dean!

I look forward to your trip report!

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We are packed! And only 21 hours left. I am working but Kay is off tomorrow. I work till 3pm and then we are off to the airport!

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Yeah, just ask Marian what it does to floors .

Dean, have an excellent adventure. Can't wait to read your blogs!

Tomorrow night we will be dining at Antiche Carampane. The rusty Italian was good inough to reserve over the phone. Can't wait for my first Spritz Aperol, probably at Alla Frasca!

Have a wonderful trip-will look forward to your blogging!

If you have room for dessert at Carampane, get a sgroppino - they have a good one there.

For a starter... clams in a spicy broth... YUM.