July 11, 2016

Wild blackberries, Milanese cutlet sandwiches, and a hike in Franciacorta's peatlands make for a fine Sunday afternoon

With highs in the 90s, today probably wasn’t the best day for hiking in a swamp. A beautiful swamp. But a swamp nonetheless.
But on a cooler day, I can’t recommend it enough. Here’s a post on my visit and hike that I wrote for the Franciacorta Real Story blog when I got back to my hotel in Brescia. (Yes, the Franciacorta consortium actually pays me to do this stuff; sweet gig!)
It’s really worth checking out… and really interesting to learn that peat was once a major source of fuel here (in the 1700s).