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    Schielke's European Vacation

    in Italy: Dining

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    Anybody have a rec for a decent Venice hotel room for under 170 euros a night? I am still searching the various Websites, but would love recs based on personal experiences.

    Thanks!!!

    Ben

    FYI, I have reserved an apartment in Florence for 5 days. It is a couple blocks from the Duomo and looks pretty sweet.

    Using non-espresso beans for espresso

    in Coffee & Tea

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    Those are the results I've had with my roaster, with a Hearthware, and with already-roasted beans. I have yet to make a non-sucky cup of espresso from a non-espresso roast.

    FG what kind of equipment are you using? From all that I can gather, equipment makes a huge difference in how your espresso turns out.

    It is quite the investment to say the least.:smile:

    Ben

    Schielke's European Vacation

    in Italy: Dining

    Posted

    Ok,

    Tickets have been purchased!

    Here is what we plan to do (roughly)

    4/18-- I am arriving in Venice on April 18th around noon.

    4/19-- Venice

    4/20-- Leave Venice during the day sometime by train to Florence. Spend night in Florence.

    4/21-- Florence

    4/22-- Florence

    4/23-- Florence

    4/24-- Florence- Pick up rental car either this day or the next

    4/25-- Tuscany- Not sure where to go on this day, but the coast might be nice. Find a place to stay on the fly.

    4/26-- Tuscany/Villa Min.- Head to Villa Minnozo that afternoon

    4/27-- Villa Min

    4/28-- Tuscany or somewhere between there and Milan

    4/29-- Drive into Milan and drop off car. Stay in Milan

    4/30-- Milan

    5/1-- Head home at the ass-crack of dawn.

    At this point, I think I am at the stage of filling out the things to do in places when I am there. I am certainly open to recs of places to stay or see when tooling around tuscany.

    Again, thanks so much for all your help, I really appreciate all of your comments.

    Ben

    :smile:

    Sichuan Cuisine Restaurant

    in Pacific Northwest & Alaska: Dining

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    When we arrived, I noticed that Matt and Laurie had a little buddy with them who will soon be my cartoon buddy. :smile:

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    She was sleeping in this pic, but woke up during our meal to say hi and get a gulp of the spicy hot pot. She was disapointed with the lack of beef honeycomb though and went back to sleep.

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    We ordered both kinds of dumplings and later in the meal were informed by our server that we had unlimited dumplings on the house!!! Jackpot!

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    Tofu! Quite nice, it soaked up the hot pot-y flava'

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    Beef! There were piles and piles of raw beef floating around.

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    Pork! Quite good, we also had Lamb and fish, which were fantastic.

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    The Pot!

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    The Pot later in the evening, it was getting very tassty at this stage.

    We had fun biting sichuan peppercorns and numbing the tips of our tongues. We should do it again!

    Ben

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