After a long (10 hours), draining drive from Alba to our Best Western room near the Rome Airport, the car rental returned, etc., we await our ItalAir flight tomorrow morning to Toronto. Since today's blog would be on Italian toll roads we saved a bit of Alba to post today:
After our truffle hunt we went on a wine tasting! The Barolo region is famed for its red wine production. We visited one of the region's wineries, had a grand tour and a tasting session. We failed to impress the Italians with our oenological abilities, but we blew them away with our mycological expertise!
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| The Winery |
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| Vineyards abound |
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| Original bottle from the 1800s. Corked and wax sealed and still full. |
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| Aging barrels |
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| Taste test room |
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| Ripening wine grapes |
As mentioned the drive was long and boring. Every time we thought we had gone through the last tunnel there was another one so probably well over 150 in total. Not sure why but traffic came to a stop on the freeway and we crept along for nearly two hours at approximately 10 km an hour when we weren't just stopped. No real issue evident either, We figure we have now spent over $200 on tolls, Not sure what the general public does but no real obvious way around it. Google maps gave us three options but each one included tolls.
Except for the brutal heat Italy has been great. Beautiful scenery, friendly people and amazing cheese. Having said that we will both be glad to get home.
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