There are many lovely things about Venice and Firenze--the service people in
Venice are like New Yorkers, sending tourists on long water taxi rides--when
can walk 1/4 mile, being disdainful of the amount of a tip. Verona is the
real Veneto, as for Firenze is a sightseer paradise, old bridges rooms along
the Arno, no traffic in the center and surrounding hill towns like Fiesole.
I love the Langhe but its become a little like Route 29 in Napa or the
highway from Sonoma to Santa Rosa, places for conspicuous consumption.

I've never been south of Avellino but are they still issuing body armour &
anti theft devices on arrival?
"UC" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> I would not go to Venice. Sicily is where I want to go next. Been only
> to Firenza.
>
>
> Joe "Beppe"Rosenberg wrote:
> > Hey UC ever been in Venice on a hot day, the stench from the canals
> > certainly enhances the palate. Smog is international. I'd rather be on
the
> > Pacific coast from Big Sur to Mendocino sipping wine then tasting in a
smoke
> > inundated quaint bistro where the house wines smell & taste like
yesterdays
> > sweat sox, merde indeed.
> > "UC" > wrote in message
> > ps.com...
> > >
> > > miles wrote:
> > > > UC wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Don't be such a cheapskate. Take her to Tuscany and then Sicily.
> > > >
> > > > No way! I'd rather have some decent wine along with some great
food.
> > >
> > > .....and you expect to find these in (cough) California? (cough,
cough,
> > > choke)....
> > >
>