Friday, 23 June,2017 – Weather: Stinking Hot
Everything has gone wrong so far concerning the cheese factory visit. But we are on the bus early for an appointment today. Well, things continue to go wrong as there are two addresses and we go to the wrong one. We could just see our appointment being cancelled because of our lateness but when we get there a guide is waiting for us.
We had to cover our hair and feet for cleanliness reasons.
We are here to learn about the making of Parmigiano Reggiano – a premium cheese.
We go back to the first point where the process continues initially breaking up the curds.
We ditch our exotic slippers and bonnets. We are given some finished product to taste – very nice but I find quite rich. We then go out to the main shop to exit.
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So we end our interesting cheese factory tour. We hop in the bus and drive to Ravenna – around 2 hours. Our first port of call is the magnificent Cathedral in Ravenna. For those who know me well, cathedrals are not my scene, right Peter?, so the following photos are from Julie. First a couple of impressive glasswork.
Then into the Cathedral.
Enough of that scheiss. This is a food and wine blog after all. From there we walk the 4/5 blocks, more like 2 KM, to our restaurant.
Food starts coming. Capo calls it nosh, I am calling it Chow.
Then it is back on the bus to return to home base. It is still very hot. When we get back, Julie does a lot of study while I Blog. Eventually we decide to get something to eat. We walk a ways in the heat and I shortly decide I would not go on further. Julie continues on and I go to the local Chinese for, wait for it, some Chow food.
It was a low cost meal and I paid for what I got. In the mean time Julie has gone into the centre where a food festival is on. The following are some of her photos.
Eventually Julie returned and we hit the sack. We did not sleep very well as the air conditioning was not working. Turns out that was because we had a window open and there is an interlock.