Tuesday, 8 July 2008

Up North


Up to the high hills/low mountains north of Biella for a weekend debauch. There was a small local fair on in the centre of the completely unspoilt village (no nearby ski resorts). Excellent local wine in the bar (dispensed from a tap) was €1 a (very full) glass.

Matey here was flogging his home-prepared salami made from (among other beasts) donkey and goat. He calls his stall the Cholesterol Shop. Not far wrong there. All in all an excellent weekend.

3 comments:

Affer said...

Would that be "Don Camillo" country? How I loved those books - and always wanted to visit that 'world'!

Toby Savage said...

Trust you indulged it a large slab of pig fat....

Peter Ashley said...

That stallholder bears an uncanny resemblance to Roman Polanski.