A Quick Look At Italy
I feel it is time to direct my blog to interesting places and foods in northern Itally. There are so many things that a tourist never has the chance to see. Let's face it, you fly to Italy and have a week or less, and you find it is impossible to see everything. I have known people who were in Sicily, Naples, Rome, Pisa, Florence, Venice in such a short time. Talk about whirlwind tours. 3 would have been enough, 2nd trip for the rest! Just minutes from where we live are several large farm houses, almost big enough to call them a villa, but not. What makes them interesting to me is that they have these towers built into the structure. I always wonder if the owner wanted to be able to watch his peasant workers better to make sure he was getting good work for what he was paying them. Or maybe it was a competition, like in San Gimignano, where the elite citizens tried to out build the other towers and make them taller. Or..... this was the mother in law quarters? Regard