Month: November 2014
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My third pair of ic! berlin – Harmonic Oscillator
My (Chris’s) eyesight is not getting better and as a result, I have to change the prescription on my lens – it is getting thicker but not quite coke-bottle thick. I changed my glasses about six months ago. I wrote about my loyalty to the ic! berlin brand of eyeglass here – click to see the other…
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Colle del Gran San Bernardo
Although we have lived in Switzerland for a few years and are only about 2 hours from this famous mountain pass, we crossed the Alps via the Great St Bernard Pass (Colle del Gran San Bernardo or Col du Grand-Saint-Bernard) to Italy for the first time this summer. The pass was at an elevation of 8100 feet…
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Ristorante Bovio, La Morra
La Morra is one of several wine-making commune/village that is in the zone of production of Barolo wines. Located high on a little hill where it commands a panoramic view of the area, it is in the province of Cuneo, south-west of Alba. It was about 30 minutes drive from our villa (see earlier post here). Our…