Lucca
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Silk thread from Cocoons
After breakfast, we drove to Lucca. The tour participants had some time to walk around Lucca, have some lunch, and have a private tour of the Maria Niemack Laboratory, National Museum Mansi. I opted to have some alone time and get lost in the streets of Lucca. Stefania sporting her Violence Free Silk Necklace …
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Agriturismo Arrivals
Part of my exchange agreement with Heather is that I both help with marketing initiatives and assist during tours, that is why I have not been posting for the last few days. I figured the business end of the Tastes & Textiles tour wouldn’t be of much interest to my blog readers. The Arrival Day…
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Opera Concert in Lucca
Dinner quickly approached and we made our way to a restaurant where we were met by one of Heathers colleagues Debra, who writes the bagni di lucca and beyond blog, and her husband Jim. After dinner we walked to ‘I Concert degli Angeli Custodi’ (Concert of the Guardian Angels) which featured opera singers Giancarlo Monsalve…
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Wine Tasting at the Anteprima
Heather is taking a sommelier course in Lucca and we have a wine professional development course we are working on, so Heather suggested we go to the ‘Anteprima‘. The Anteprima, an annual event, is a large scale wine exhibition where Tuscan coast vinters debut their new wines (about 400 labels) and it was held at…
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Sagra di Baccala
What is a Sagra? A sagra is a local (village) festival in Italy, usually involving food, and maybe some music, or sport or competition. This Sagra was in Borgo a Mozzano, Lucca and is celebrating Baccala, also known as salted cod fish. We purchased our food tickets then went to the food line where we redeemed our…