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I due alpinisti, due manager di 36 e 43 anni, sono precipitati ieri mentre scalavano la Via Don Chisciotte. L'allarme è stato lanciato dalla moglie di uno di loro, che non aveva avuto risposta ad un messaggio nel primo pomeriggio. I corpi individuati all'alba, dopo che ieri erano state individuate le due auto.
Andrea Dei Castaldi"Le parole d'ordine"Barta Edizioniwww.barta.it1931. Nel cuore della campagna veneta il ragazzino Oreste viene sorpreso in acqua da un'esperienza straordinaria che lo renderà per sempre «un diverso», qualcuno «tirato fuori dal buio», ma che il buio «ha preso lo stesso».1941. La Seconda guerra mondiale è scoppiata: ma «non è oggi che muoio» ripeterà Oreste impassibile, durante gli episodi più estremi della sua vita adulta, sul fronte d'Africa come in Italia.1978. Il Paese sospira sotto il breve pontificato di papa Luciani, e Oreste si riunisce ai tre uomini che più hanno condiviso con lui il tempo della guerra: il cappellano Stefano, il capitano Domenico e il medico John, ciascuno con i propri segreti e tormenti.E qui, ora, allora, si dipaneranno i fili del loro destino, intrecciati nel caos del conflitto mondiale, avvinti dalla possibilità di redenzione, ognuno impegnato a trovare, nella pace, le proprie parole d'ordine, il senso di un ritorno a casa già avvenuto ma a strappi ancora irreale.«Aspetto i salici e ascolto il rumore che fa il silenzio, lì sotto dov'è il buio, dov'ero io, prima. Prima di adesso, prima di me», dice Oreste. E forse il ritorno, la pace dopo la guerra, è la preziosa possibilità di dire, forte: «Adesso».«Il periodo in cui scrivevo la prima versione delle Parole d'ordine – ne sarebbero seguite altre due prima di riconoscervi la forma definitiva – fu per me tra i più difficili, perché coincise con la malattia di mio padre. Dopo lunghe giornate che mi lasciavano esausto, la sera tornavo alla scrittura come si torna a una casa, a un conforto. La sofferenza insensata a cui assistevo quotidianamente portava la guerra tra le pagine di questa storia, immaginavo il suo farsi nei tratti violenti di un'incisione espressionista. Mancavo però di equilibrio, come la mia scrittura fatta allora soltanto di buio. Quando mio padre se ne andò mi fu chiaro che non era la pace, ciò che avrei dovuto aspettare, e nemmeno un senso da dare a quello che era accaduto, perché vivere in fondo è sempre e soltanto un atto di fede. Scriverne avrebbe restituito luce ai miei giorni, e a questo romanzo».Andrea Dei Castaldi – Vive nel borgo trevigiano di Asolo. Ha pubblicato con Barta i romanzi Finistère (2013), La cesura (2015) e Anime brevi (2021), nonché il racconto Pelle nel volume Solo (2017), a cura di Raffaella Tancredi.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.
Allagamenti nei centri abitati di Asolo e Castelfranco Veneto, Quarto d'Altino, Altivole, Casier, Fonte, Mogliano Veneto. Il torrente Muson dei Sassi ha rotto gli argini a Camposampiero (nel padovano), smottamenti di terreno ostruiscono la viabilità nell'area pedemontana trevigiana e bellunese e permangono diffusi allagamenti prevalentemente nelle province di Vicenza e Padova per effetto delle precipitazioni del 15 e 16 maggio.
Trevigiano di Asolo, fece la sua fortuna a Milano collaborando come manager di artisti dopo gli esordi come cantante negli anni '60. Una volta rientrato in Veneto, a Verona, ha organizzato show musicali itineranti come il Cantaveneto e il Festival Show e vari concorsi per modelle. Nei mesi scorsi era stato colpito da grave malattia, venerdì il funerale.
In questo episodio ho parlato con Cristina Solano. Nata a Palmi, romana d'adozione, Cristina ha corso la sua prima ultramaratona nel 2022. Con una passione per le ultra distanze nata di recente e già due 100km sulle gambe (Passatore e Asolo), Cristina ha sicuramente ancora tanto da dare, da testare e da sperimentare ma non si pone mai limiti. L'abbiamo conosciuta meglio con questa intervista in cui ci ha rivelato anche il suo prossimo obiettivo. La video intervista originale è qui: https://youtube.com/live/B3GS03StDPY La musica è "Pushed Away" di Luca Francioso - www.lucafrancioso.com
One might call Gordon Greenberg the driving force behind this sucker (pun intended). He sits down with Andrew for what very well might be the final episode of the podcastula for awhile (what is a podcastula, anyway?). Sharing some of his own reasons for even wanted to create Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors in the first place, this episode is one that you won't soon forget. Gordon is the Co-Author & Director of the production. Additional resume stuffs include: Picasso starring Antonio Banderas (directing and co-writing with Stephen Schwartz and Caridad Svich for Trafalgar Entertainment); “Most Talkative” (co-creator, NBC/Universal TV, Andy Cohen,Blumhouse); Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Geffen Playhouse, L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award, Best Revival); Crime and Punishment, A Comedy (directed and cowritten with Steve Rosen, The Old Globe); Guys and Dolls starring Rebel Wilson (Savoy Theatre London, six Olivier Award noms); Barnum (Menier Chocolate Factory,London); Piaf/Dietrich (Mirvish Toronto, Dora Award, Best Production); Holiday Inn (director/co-writer, Broadway, PBS “Great Performances”); Working (Drama Desk Award); Jacques Brel… (Zipper Theatre, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics noms); Ebenezer Scrooge's BIG San Diego Christmas Show (The Old Globe); The Secret of My Success (Universal Stage Productions,TUTS, Paramount); new works at Ars Nova, Williamstown, Huntington, Paper Mill, Signature, Goodspeed, Chicago Shakes, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Asolo, NY Stage and Film. Education: Stanford, NYU Film, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Throughout history, artists and writers have been drawn to the Northern Italian hill town of Asolo; some say it's because it's the “city of a hundred horizons,” I think it's because it's the home of Asolo Prosecco!At one time, you might have caught a glimpse of poet Robert Browning, actress Elenora Duse, or writer Freya Stark sitting enjoying a glass of bubbly at one of the cafes in this Pearl of the Veneto; I can almost guarantee the liquid in their glass was Asolo prosecco! In this episode, I'm taking you with me to Asolo to meet a few people who are making Asolo Prosecco what it is! We‘ll begin with a masterclass led by Wine Educator and Journalist Gianpaolo Giacobbo, who will explain what Asolo prosecco DOCG is exactly. Then Ugo Zamperoni is next. He is the President of the Conzorio of Asolo Prosecco - which is the association of producers and grape growers. Then we are off to meet a few producers of Asolo Prosecco: Dennis Bordin from the Tenuta d'Asolo Progress Country & Wine House, Ermenegildo Giusti of Giusti Wine, and then we finish with Tenuta Baron's Andrea Sbrissa. I interviewed them all in situ, so alas, there is no video podcast this week, but you can find a video guide to the town of Asolo and a selection of the vineyards and historical sites you can visit when you are next in town. You can find it on my YouTube channel, youtube.com/lushlifemanual. Our cocktail of the week comes straight from master mixologist Samuele Ambrosi, owner of Cloakroom Cocktail Lab and Knowledge Hub in Treviso. We met at Venice Cocktail Week last year, and I am thrilled to include one of his cocktail creations. It's called the Made in Italy and is a little different from what you might think of as a prosecco cocktail - because it's savory!The cocktail of the week is Samuele Ambrosi's MADE IN ITALY.INGREDIENTS 50ml Basil and "datterino" tomatoes cordial*150 ml Asolo DOCG Prosecco extra BrutMETHODAdd all the ingredients to a mixing glassAdd iceStir, stir, stirStrain into a champagne glassGarnish with a tomato basil cracker*Basil and "datterino" tomatoes cordial*In an electric blender, add 500gr cherry tomatoes and 10/12 fresh basil leaves and blend everything for a few minutesLeave the liquid all together for 10/15 minutes in the fridge.Then strain all and put 1 tsp white sugarKeep the cordial in the fridgeBest before 10/12 daysYou can use the leftovers (tomato peel, basil leaves, etc.) to make the garnish! You'll find this recipe, more prosecco cocktail recipes, and all the cocktails of the week at alushlifemanual.com, where you'll find some of the ingredients in our shop.Full Episode Details: https://alushlifemanual.com/asolo-prosecco-podcast-----Become a supporter of A Lush Life Manual for as little as $5 - all you have to do is go to patreon.com/lushlifeLush Life Merchandise is here - we're talking t-shirts, mugs, iPhone covers, duvet covers, iPad covers, and more covers for everything! And more! Produced by Simpler MediaFollow us on Twitter and InstagramGet great...
If a business has a subscription pricing model and wants to accept both fiat & crypto as payments, that would mean using a combination of fiat and crypto payment gateways. For example, Stripe works for fiat, and Coinbase Commerce works for crypto payments. The issue here is that the merchant has to manually reconcile payments flowing through these 2 payment gateways, and so far a unified web3 billing solution did not exist. Enter Super, a Web3 Subscription billing platform acting as a bridge between fiat and crypto payments. Super allows you to manage your subscribers' data and their subscriptions and helps you to get rid of the manual work involved in connecting fiat and crypto payments. On Episode 51, I spoke with its Co-Founder & CEO, Bisola Asolo. Topics covered; Episode intro (00:37) Story of Bisola co-founding Super (2:20) Subscription billing platform v/s Payment gateway (3:53) Are web3 teams collecting payments in crypto today (7:14) Thank you to our sponsor Cryptoworth (8:31) What is Super, & features for subscription billing (10:05) Onboarding new customers (12:05) Finding 1st customers with Super (13:23) Use cases & how clients use Super (15:13) Thank you to our sponsor Convoy Finance (16:51) Roadmap & upcoming milestones (18:46) Challenges on adoption from web2 businesses (20:15) Lessons learned in scaling a business (22:48) Closing thoughts (24:37) Follow The Accountant Quits: LinkedIN: linkedin.com/company/the-accountant-quits Twitter: twitter.com/accountantquits Follow Super: Twitter: https://twitter.com/trysuper_ Follow Bisola Asolo: Twitter: https://twitter.com/bisasolo Review If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes. Website For show notes and past guests, please visit theaccountantquits.com/podcast/
E' forse la sfida vinta più bella quella che domenica scorsa ha avuto per protagonista Federico Rossi, nell'inedita veste di sposo a coronare il sogno d'amore con la 'sua' Giada. Lui, 29 anni compiuti lo scorso maggio, è originario di Schio e si è fatto conoscere per una grinta ed una forza d'animo che trovano pochi pari: più di metà della vita costretto su una sedia a rotelle, non si è mai arreso di fronte agli ostacoli. Appassionato di sport, proprio un anno fa, è stato il primo al mondo a divorarsi i 48 tornanti che portano al valico dello Stelvio con la sola forza delle braccia.
Loredan Gasparini in the Asolo/Montello Hills outside of Venice is unique for producing a Venegazzù cru red wine in this region better known for quality Prosecco. The winery was named for Count Piero Loredan Gasparini, a descendant of Leonardo Loredan, Doge of Venice. Current owner since 1973, Giancarlo Palla with his sons continue the tradition of producing cru red wines with longer aging. Lorenzo Palla elaborates on the winery history, Montello Rosso DOCG and Asolo Prosecco Superiore DOCG.The Connected Table is broadcast live Wednesdays at 2PM ET.The Connected Table Radio Show is broadcast on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). The Connected Table Podcast is also available on Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.
Ermengildo "Joe" Giusti comes from a storied family in Italy's Asolo (Veneto) region. In 1975 at age 17 he went to North America with just $20 to strike out on his own. He built a construction empire in Canada. In 2002 Joe returned to Asolo and bought a small parcel of land to farm. Now the largest single private vineyard landowner in the Prosecco region, Giusti Wine in the Montello Hills west of Venice produces excellent Asolo Prosecco DOCG, elegant Ripasso, Amarone and "Super Venetian" reds.The Connected Table is broadcast live Wednesdays at 2PM ET.The Connected Table Radio Show is broadcast on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). The Connected Table Podcast is also available on Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.
What you'll learn in this episode: How Thereza helps art collectors enter the world of contemporary jewelry. Why contemporary jewelry shouldn't be a niche, but a part of the larger art and design scene. How Thereza defines contemporary jewelry, and how she became interested in it. How she selects artists for her art and jewelry gallery, Thereza Pedrosa Gallery. Why even delicate art shouldn't be hidden away. Why quality matters just as much as aesthetics in a piece of jewelry. About Thereza Pedrosa Thereza Pedrosa (Rio de Janeiro, 1985) is an art historian, independent curator and gallery owner. She graduated in Conservation of Cultural Heritage at Ca' Foscari University in Venice with a thesis on art works on paper belonging to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. She continued her studies and obtained a MA in Management and Conservation of Cultural Heritage at Ca' Foscari University in Venice with a thesis on the use of niello in contemporary European jewelry. In 2009 she collaborated as assistant registrar at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, cataloging all the museum's works on paper. Her work led to the exhibition Revealing Papers: The Hidden Treasures of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, for which Thereza was the scientific coordinator (Lucca Center of Contemporary Art). Since 2011 she has been working as an curator, creating exhibitions, catalogues and projects for artists and galleries in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France and the Netherlands. In 2012 she founded the blog Beautiful People Live Art, dedicated to art, design, architecture, photography and art jewelly. In 2019 she established with her business partner Elinor Garnero a contemporary art gallery with a focus on art jewelry, the “Thereza Pedrosa Gallery”. In 2021 she joined as an expert the examining committee of the Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School in Florence. She brings a genuinely international perspective to her curatorial activity also thanks to her residencies in Switzerland, Germany and, since 2015, the Netherlands. Additional Resources: Thereza Pedrosa Gallery Instagram Facebook LinkedIN Photos Available on TheJewelryJourney.com Transcript: For Thereza Pedrosa, no form of art is more important than another. At her gallery, contemporary jewelry, sculpture, paintings and other fine art are all given equal standing, and she's helped numerous art collectors discover jewelry for the first time. She joined the Jewelry Journey Podcast to talk about why contemporary jewelry is still unknown to most art collectors and why that should change; how she balances raising children with owning a gallery; and what she discovered at this year's jewelry fairs. Read the episode transcript here. Sharon: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Jewelry Journey Podcast. This is the second part of a two-part episode. If you haven't heard part one, please head to TheJewelryJourney.com. Today, my guest is Thereza Pedrosa of Thereza Pedrosa Gallery. Thereza is speaking to us from Asolo, which is right near Florence. It's supposed to be a very lovely medieval village. She and her partner and friend, Elinor Garnero, founded the gallery in 2019. Welcome back. I was wondering about this. If you have people who come in and say, “I like this painting,” or “I want a painting,” and then they look at the jewelry, do they walk out with the jewelry, or do they walk out with both? How does that work? Thereza: Yes, it's happened a couple of times that someone came inside because they saw the paintings. When you are walking in the street, it's easier to see the paintings from outside than the jewelry. So, they come to see the paintings and discover we have contemporary jewelry, but they don't know about it. It happened a couple of times, where they may buy a painting and also a piece of jewelry. It happens more often that they open their minds to the field of contemporary jewelry, and they come back later to buy jewelry. Normally, if they come inside the first time just thinking about paintings, they are not ready yet to move to contemporary jewelry, but they come back. They fall in love with it. They come back to discover more, and then they can start buying contemporary jewelry. Sharon: Would you call yourself a collector, somebody who collects? Thereza: Yes. I don't know how many pieces I have in my own collection, but I sure love to collect myself. I cannot resist. I'm an art lover, and I love to collect paintings, sculptures, books and contemporary jewelry, absolutely. Sharon: Are they different from each other, the art people who come in and just want a painting versus a jewelry person who comes in and looks at the art? Are they different kinds of personalities or people? Thereza: I don't think they are different kinds of personalities. Normally, they are people that, like me, love art and design in all forms, especially people who love paintings and discover contemporary jewelry. What happens more often is that they just didn't know the field before. They didn't know contemporary existed. What happens often with these collectors is that they come inside, and they are like, “Oh, I love art. I love sculptures. I collect them. I never knew about contemporary jewelry. I never thought art you can wear existed.” They are excited to discover it. This is how I was. I always loved art and paintings and sculptures, and I grew up in an artist family. I grew up with my walls surrounded by art all my life. For me, when I got involved in contemporary jewelry, I was like, “Wow!” I love art. I love to have art pieces in my house, but contemporary jewelry is a piece of art I can wear when I go out of the house. It's amazing. Sharon: Do you consider it that? Do you consider contemporary jewelry art you can wear? Thereza: I do. Sharon: You do? Thereza: Yeah, I do. For me, yes. I also consider them art pieces. There are many jewelry artists, but they make sculptures. If you see this object, you can imagine it big and it would still be amazing. They just decided to make them small and wearable, but they are still art pieces. For example, in my house, I like to keep some pieces of contemporary jewelry around the living room on shelves we have around the house, just off the coffee table because I have two small kids, but in places at least a little higher. I keep one piece here and one piece there because they look like small sculptures. They are interesting to see even when you are not wearing them. Sharon: That's interesting. People have suggested to me that I frame some jewelry when I'm not wearing it, but I've never thought about it. The first time somebody said it to me, I thought, “Well, that's really stupid.” I didn't understand what they were talking about. Thereza: Sometimes people come to my house and say, “Oh, my god, you keep this piece here. You should close it in a safe or something,” and I'm like, “This is an artwork. It was made to be seen and to be enjoyed. It was not made to be hidden away. If I need to have something in a safe, if I never look at it or see it or enjoy it, then I cannot own it. What is the purpose for it?” The jewelry in my collection is the same thing. I like to enjoy the pieces, even when I'm not wearing them. I cannot wear 20 pieces at the same time, so I like to see them around me. They make me happy. Sharon: You've been in a lot of different countries. You've been in the Netherlands. Where else? I know you've been in a lot of countries, selling and creating. Thereza: I was born in Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro. I grew up in Italy. I lived for a couple of years in Switzerland and a couple of years in Germany. Actually now, I live in the Netherlands. It's been almost eight years that I've lived in the Netherlands. My art gallery is in Italy, but I actually live in the Netherlands. Sharon: Oh, wow! Do you find that the different cultures and places you've lived or studied influences what you do? Thereza: I think yes, for sure, even if I don't think about it on purpose. For sure I think of it in a more international way. I don't really feel myself as Italian or Brazilian, and I have big difficulties when someone asks me, “Where are you from?” I'm like, “What are you asking me? Are you asking me where I was born? Are you asking me where I grew up? Are you asking me where I was living before I moved to this country?” It's always hard for me, but I like to take the positive sides of everywhere I was living and growing up. What I like most is to see my kids growing up internationally. My kids are six and four, and they speak four languages and have friends from all around the world. They have friends from Tokai, from China, from Germany, from France, from the U.K., the U.S., Canada, anywhere. We go out on Sunday to have lunch together with some friends. They come to our place or we go to their place, and my kids can try food from India or Tokai, or different festivities, a different region, a different tradition. I think that's the best way for them to learn that we need to respect everyone and hope they will respect us. There is no color of skin or religion or culture that is more important than the other ones. We are all different and we are all the same, but sometimes it is difficult to teach that. If they can live it, I think it's the best way to grow up with this concept. Sharon: Do you expose them to a lot of art, more than usual? Do you take them to art galleries? I don't know what there is in Italy. How do they learn about art? Thereza: Some of my friends think we are little bit crazy. When we were expecting my first son, they told us, “Oh, you should put away everything that can break.” Now I'm sitting in my kitchen in Iceland, and I can see here I have a glass sculpture that is full of small, fragile pieces. When friends come over, they are like, “How can you keep that thing there with two small kids around?” I think if you teach them to respect the artworks, they can grow up with them around. I grew up with them around. My parents always had paintings and sculptures around the house. They never put them away because we were children, and I tried to do the same with my kids. I would like them to enjoy that we have these pieces at home. With a marble sculpture or a bronze sculpture, they can touch it and feel the difference between the materials. I love it when they talk about these pieces and they go around the house and say, “This is my favorite painting,” or “This is my favorite sculpture,” or “I like this one because it's cold,” or “I like this one because I like the shape of it.” I love abstract art, so the paintings we have at home are all abstract, but my kids go around and say, “Oh, I see an ice cream in this painting. I never saw that ice cream before.” Then I start seeing things they see. Obviously, we like to go with them to museums. I go to art fairs sometimes and they can come with me. It's a pleasure to bring them around to contemporary jewelry fairs as well. Sharon: You went to Schmuck this year. Do you go to Schumck every year? Thereza: This year was the first year we were participating as a gallery because the gallery's only three years old. We opened it in 2019. Then Corona came, and Schmuck was not there for a couple of years. Before that, I went to visit three times, I think. I visited the last couple of years before Corona came because I was busy with my babies. They were really small, but I went. In 2014, 2015 and 2016, I went. I took a break with my babies for a couple of years, then I opened up my gallery, and this was the first year of participating as a gallery. Sharon: Did you find new artists there or new work by artists you have? What did you find? What was interesting to you? Thereza: Everything was different for me because that was the first year I was not free to go around so much as the other three years. I needed to be in our exhibition during the day all the time, so I didn't have much time to go visit other exhibitions. But it was wonderful to meet many artists of the art gallery that we don't get to meet often. If we organize a solo exhibition at the gallery, normally the artist comes for the solo exhibition, but otherwise we don't get to see the artists from other countries so often. I didn't have time to count how many artists of the gallery we met last week, but I think almost 20 of them were there. It was very nice to meet everyone in person. I met artists of the gallery I had already met other times before and we are friends, but I also met some artists of the gallery that we represent that I'd never met in person before. Finally, we got the opportunity to meet in person. That was also really nice. We got new pieces to bring to the gallery from some of them. It's always a good excuse to meet in person to receive some pieces for the gallery. I also met some artists that I invited to be artists of the gallery. I'm really happy to have had all these exchanges. Sharon: The people that you asked to be artists, they're people that you don't have now, but you saw they had work you were interested in. Therbeza: Yes. I invited some artists I already knew I wanted for the gallery, but I just didn't have time to invite them yet. Then I met them in person. In person is always better to talk and invite them to work with the gallery. It's a pleasure. It's better than just writing an email. Sharon: Was that a chance to see work you usually don't see, besides meeting artists? Was it work you don't see? Thereza: Yeah, every time you visit Schmuck, you have the opportunity to discover an artist you didn't know before. You study and you try to keep in touch with everything, but there are always some artists you don't know or have yet to discover. It's always wonderful to go there because in one week, you see so many different things, displays, artists' pieces. It's really, really interesting. Sharon: I've been wanting to ask you about this. There was a long and very interesting interview with you that Art Jewelry Forum did, and you used the word “authorial jewelry.” Thereza: Well, with authorial jewelry, I don't know if it's a mistake in the translation from Italian. It really means alto jewelry. I think it's also used in English sometimes, but in Italian we use it to divide art jewelry from design jewelry. Alto jewelry is more about artists that also made jewelry, instead of contemporary jewelry artists that work only in the field of jewelry. Sharon: What holds your attention about art jewelry as opposed to art? What keeps you going with art jewelry? What do you like, and why do you stay attracted to it? Thereza: There are a lot of things I like. One of them is how many different media contemporary jewelry artists can use to make jewelry. You often find some artist who uses materials you never thought before could be used to make jewelry, and sometimes you see something that looks like one material, and then you go to see what it is and it's a different one. It always surprises me in a good way when I'm surprised with the aesthetics of a piece, the quality of the piece, but also the materials that are unexpected and different from what I was thinking or expecting Sharon: Is that what you look at? Besides the fact that it has surprised you, do you look at the quality and the craftsmanship and the way it's done? Thereza: Absolutely. That's really important. It's important to look. The aesthetic is important in a piece because that's what you see, but then there's the quality of it, the durability of it. You don't want it to be broken in one week. It needs to be well-made, it needs to be wearable and it needs to be of good quality. Especially for a young artist, sometimes they don't finish a piece, or they just want to have many pieces done and they don't finish them properly. No, it's really important to finish them properly for the quality of the piece, but also the wearability. It's important that you try the piece on until it works, it doesn't hurt and it doesn't break. That's important because it's an art piece, but it's also jewelry. It needs to be wearable; otherwise, it's a sculpture. Jewelry needs to be wearable for me. Sharon: No, that's really important. You're right; a lot of young makers don't understand that it has to be something you can wear. Thereza, thank you so much for being here today and telling us about Schmuck and your gallery. Asolo is—what did you say? A couple of hours, less than a couple of hours from Florence? Thereza: It could be more. It's actually one hour from Venice. It's in the northeast of Italy, 50 minutes from Pauda and one hour from Venice. Sharon: You're right in the middle of things, then. Thank you so much for being with us today. We really appreciate it. Thereza: It was a pleasure. Thank you, Sharon. Sharon: We will have photos posted on the website. Please head to TheJewelryJourney.com to check them out. Thank you again for listening. Please leave us a rating and review so we can help others start their own jewelry journey.
What you'll learn in this episode: How Thereza helps art collectors enter the world of contemporary jewelry. Why contemporary jewelry shouldn't be a niche, but a part of the larger art and design scene. How Thereza defines contemporary jewelry, and how she became interested in it. How she selects artists for her art and jewelry gallery, Thereza Pedrosa Gallery. Why even delicate art shouldn't be hidden away. Why quality matters just as much as aesthetics in a piece of jewelry. About Thereza Pedrosa Thereza Pedrosa (Rio de Janeiro, 1985) is an art historian, independent curator and gallery owner. She graduated in Conservation of Cultural Heritage at Ca' Foscari University in Venice with a thesis on art works on paper belonging to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. She continued her studies and obtained a MA in Management and Conservation of Cultural Heritage at Ca' Foscari University in Venice with a thesis on the use of niello in contemporary European jewelry. In 2009 she collaborated as assistant registrar at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, cataloging all the museum's works on paper. Her work led to the exhibition Revealing Papers: The Hidden Treasures of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, for which Thereza was the scientific coordinator (Lucca Center of Contemporary Art). Since 2011 she has been working as an curator, creating exhibitions, catalogues and projects for artists and galleries in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France and the Netherlands. In 2012 she founded the blog Beautiful People Live Art, dedicated to art, design, architecture, photography and art jewelly. In 2019 she established with her business partner Elinor Garnero a contemporary art gallery with a focus on art jewelry, the “Thereza Pedrosa Gallery”. In 2021 she joined as an expert the examining committee of the Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School in Florence. She brings a genuinely international perspective to her curatorial activity also thanks to her residencies in Switzerland, Germany and, since 2015, the Netherlands. Additional Resources: Thereza Pedrosa Gallery Instagram Facebook LinkedIN Photos Available on TheJewelryJourney.com Transcript: For Thereza Pedrosa, no form of art is more important than another. At her gallery, contemporary jewelry, sculpture, paintings and other fine art are all given equal standing, and she's helped numerous art collectors discover jewelry for the first time. She joined the Jewelry Journey Podcast to talk about why contemporary jewelry is still unknown to most art collectors and why that should change; how she balances raising children with owning a gallery; and what she discovered at this year's jewelry fairs. Read the episode transcript here. Sharon: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Jewelry Journey Podcast. This is the first part of a two-part episode. Please make sure you subscribe so you can hear part two as soon as it's released later this week. Today, my guest is Thereza Pedrosa of Thereza Pedrosa Gallery. Thereza is speaking to us from Asolo, Italy—I don't know if I said that right—which is near Florence. It's supposed to be a very lovely medieval village. She and her partner and friend, Elinor Garnero, founded the gallery in 2019, and it features art and art jewelry. Thereza has been in many countries studying, curating and exhibiting. She just took part in Schmuck, which, if you don't know, is one of the world's biggest art jewelry exhibits. Everybody in the world is there. We'll hear all about her jewelry journey today. Thereza, welcome to the program. Thereza: Thank you for having me, Sharon. Sharon: So glad to have you. Tell us about your jewelry journey. Were you considered artistic? Are people surprised when you tell them what you do? Thereza: I think someone who knows me from when I was a child would not be surprised that I work with art and jewelry right now. I grew up in the family as an artist. My father is an artist, and I always went with him to exhibitions and art fairs. I loved to go with him when he was making Murano glasses and blown sculptures. I would go to the studio with him and take photos of him working. So, I think those who saw me growing up will not be really surprised that I love art and work with art. Sharon: It doesn't sound surprising at all. I didn't know you were really exposed to art. Tell us about your jewelry education, then. How did you learn about jewelry? Thereza: I started out with my father because he's a plastic artist, mainly a painter and sculptor. Sometimes during the 55 years of his career, he made Murano glasses, sculptures, mosaics, paper, iron, brass; any kind of media. Around 2000, when I was around 15 years old, he made a collection of jewelry. To make this collection of jewelry, he bought a machine for soldering. He did this beautiful collection, and then he moved back to painting and other kinds of sculptures. I asked him, “Well, you have the machine. You know how to do it. Why don't you teach me how to solder so I can make some jewelry for myself?” He taught me the basics and I made some jewelry for myself. Then some design shops sold my pieces and they wanted to start selling them. This is how I started to get involved with contemporary jewelry. I grew up less than one hour from Padua, where there is a really important jewelry school, the Selvatico, where Babetto and Pavan and many others are from. Growing up, I saw some exhibitions of Giampaolo Babetto and Annamaria Zanella. I saw their works and I got to love their work. That's how everything started. Sharon: So, you didn't learn classically, right? You didn't go to school and learn. That's not the way you learned. Thereza: No, when I needed to decide what to study in university, I said, “O.K., I want to stay in the field of art,” but I didn't see myself as an artist. I didn't think I had it in me to make things except for designing my jewelry. I said, “O.K., what can I study? If I study history of art, then I can go into teaching; otherwise, what do I do with history of art?” In Paris, in the university environment, there is this interesting course called conservation of cultural heritage. In conservation of cultural heritage, we had exams about the laws of art when you work in a museum or salon. Nationally and internationally for an exhibition, there are a lot of laws involving how long the piece can stay away from the museum and these kinds of things. I studied chemistry of conservation for paintings, drawings, and sculptures, and museography, which is what kind of temperature you need in the rooms and the lighting. So, everything you need for the economics, how to find funding for the exhibition. Everything you needed to be a curator or a registrar in a museum, that was what I studied. I thought I would love to work in a museum as a registrar because I'm shy. I didn't see myself as a curator that needed to be the first in line. I said, “A registrar, he's more in contact with the art pieces, but a little bit in the background.” That was my dream at the beginning, but then I started moving around so much that it was difficult to find a permanent position in a museum. I started organizing exhibitions as a freelance curator for galleries in collaboration with some museums. Sharon: You did that on your own with a museum? Did you come up with the idea, or did they come up with the idea for the exhibitions you did? Thereza: The exhibition I did was a coordination with the drawings of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, a collection in Venice, and I did the coordination with the Lucca Center for Contemporary Art in Tuscany. The idea for the exhibition was mine, and it was based on my bachelor's thesis. When I was writing my bachelor's thesis, I decided I wanted to write about the Guggenheim Museum in Venice, but I wanted to write about something new. I told them I wanted to write about the drawings, and I asked if could study the archives. They said, “Yes, I'm sure it would be lovely, but we never made a catalog of the drawings of the museum.” So, my thesis became the cataloging of all the drawings in the museum. It covered how they arrived in the museum, how they received them as a gift from the artist. She bought them from the artist or from some galleries, so that's how they arrived in the collection. I also cataloged which exhibitions they participated in, which books they were published in, the state of conservation, everything you needed to know about the drawings of the collection. Then we made the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, which was at the Lucca Center of Contemporary Art and was only about the drawings of the museum. Sharon: That sounds like a huge thing, the Peggy Guggenheim drawings. How many were there? Thereza: I think there were around 80. More than 70, around 80. Drawings are sometimes considered less important artworks, but I've always loved paper media. Actually, in the collection, there are many works that are not just a preparation for a big painting. They are actually works in themselves. Klee, Kandinsky, many important artists from the collections also have works on paper. It really was a beautiful collection. Sharon: How did you come to own an art gallery, you and your friend Elinor? How did you start an art jewelry gallery, I should say. What happened? Thereza: I was organizing exhibitions for other galleries. I opened some exhibition galleries in Germany, in the Netherlands, in France. At the same time, I was still making my own jewelry. Then I got pregnant with my first son, and I decided to take a break from my jewelry to organize exhibitions. When my second child, my daughter, was around six months old, Elinor and I were talking and I was saying, “I would love to open my own gallery one day, but I cannot do it now because my kids are two and six months old.” They were too young, and I wanted to be there for them. I said, “I can do it in the future, but right now, I want to be flexible to stay with my kids. If I open a gallery, I need to be there.” She told me, “Well, I don't feel like I can open a gallery alone,” because her background is architectural. She was in architecture and then art management, but she didn't study history of art as a main course. She was thinking, “O.K., I could be at the gallery, but I don't feel like I can organize the exhibitions myself and do everything by myself.” So, we complement each other very well because she's the one to actually stay at the gallery all the time, and I am the one that organizes the exhibitions and makes the selection of the artists for the gallery and the online shop, the online website. She's the one who stays at the gallery and deals with the collectors. Sharon: How did you come to art jewelry? It doesn't sound like that was your initial interest. Did your father do art jewelry when he showed you jewelry? Would you call it art jewelry? Thereza: Yes, he was an artist that made jewelry during some periods of his life, like many other artists like Picasso and Talbert. It was not their main thing, but between other things, they also made some jewelry. Also, in 2012, I opened a blog. The name was Beautiful People Love Art. Sharon: Beautiful People Love Art. Thereza: Yes, Beautiful People Love Art. I went on with this blog for seven, eight years. The main thing of the blog was to show how all forms of art are important and interconnected. All sides are the same thing. I don't see drawings as less important than paintings, or sculptures as more important than jewelry. I think they are all important, just different media. When I opened my own gallery, I decided we would be an art gallery. We'll have paintings and sculptures, but I was already showing a lot of contemporary jewelry with my blog. I fell in love with contemporary jewelry while I was visiting Schmuck and Joya Barcelona and getting to know the artists. Actually, when I was finishing my master's degree, I wrote a thesis about contemporary jewelry and the use of niello in contemporary jewelry. I got in contact with many artists, Giampaolo Babetto, Annamaria Zanella, Phillipe Cizetta. I got to know the field better and I really fell in love with it. When I decided to open my open my own gallery, I wanted contemporary jewelry to be part of it. I truly believe the contemporary jewelry field should be more open. Not a niche, but more open to art lovers in general. I think to be an art gallery, it helps to make contemporary jewelry be known to people that love art. Really often, they don't even know that contemporary jewelry exists. So, with the gallery we try to get the field of contemporary jewelry to be known outside of the field and the collectors of the field, to get it known to art collectors, design collectors, people that love art in general. Sharon: Do you find a lot of resistance where people say, “I like the art, but the jewelry is just jewelry”? What do you find? Thereza: We find everything. My experience at Schmuck was really interesting in this way, because we organized a contemporary jewelry exhibition with 15 artists we represent at the gallery. We were guests of Petenbone Auction House. They were having an auction week with design and glass, so a lot of people that were coming during the week weren't there for the contemporary jewelry exhibition. They would just come inside the auction house and look at the jewelry and go out. There were people coming to see the purview of the auction house and the design and glass. They were just there to see the pieces of the auction and go out without looking at the jewelry. But there were also a lot of people that came inside to see the jewelry, and they looked at me and were like, “Oh my God, these Murano glass pieces are amazing,” or “Look at this piece from the 70s or this lamp from the 60s. There are so many beautiful pieces here.” There were some people that came to see the purview of the design auction and discovered our exhibition, and they were like, “Oh wow, we've never seen contemporary jewelry before. We didn't know it existed,” but they asked a lot of questions and were interested in understanding the different artists. There are some people that collect one kind of thing, and they want only that. Then there are people that love art in general and get excited about everything. It was very nice last week to see people going around and discovering contemporary jewelry or glass and design. It was a good mix. Sharon: How do you choose your artists? When you have an exhibit, how do you decide which ones to have? Thereza: For example, last week, we had an exhibition for Schmuck. We represent around 45 artists at the gallery, but we had limited space to show pieces. I wanted to show them as well as I could. I also wanted some space so you could enjoy each piece and show a little bit more of each artist, so even if you didn't know that piece, you could have an idea of his work. I decided to invite 15 artists and not bring all the artists we have at the gallery to permit people to enjoy the ones with small pieces and finalize the decision about, “O.K., I want to show a little bit of what we have at the gallery.” It was the first time for us at Schmuck, so I invited some artists that are really well-established, who showed that we have masters of the field. I also wanted to show that we have young artists with careers and artists that work with traditional materials, and others that work with different materials like paper or food or plastic, resin and anything else. I really liked the mix. I don't like to show all pieces from the same artist here and five pieces of the other artist there. I like to mix them, and I like to have a dialogue between the pieces. I wanted the artists of the exhibition to have harmony when you saw it together. That was the important thing I wanted to get across with the exhibition, and I hope people enjoy it. Sharon: It sounds like they would enjoy it and be exposed to things they wouldn't see a lot. Tell us a little more about who buys from your gallery. Thereza: All kinds of people. We have contemporary jewelry collectors that love contemporary jewelry, and they come back all the time nationally and internationally. We work in an area where there were many important contemporary jewelry galleries in the past. In the last 10 years, they all closed. They closed more than 10 years ago, because the gallerists retired one after the other. For example, in Padua, there aren't any galleries specializing in contemporary jewelry anymore. We have a lot of collectors that live there who don't have a gallery close by anymore to find contemporary jewelry, so now they come to us. We also have art collectors that love paintings and sculptures. They come inside to see the paintings, but then they discover contemporary jewelry. They get involved with contemporary jewelry and start buying contemporary jewelry also. That's very nice. We like it when that happens. Sharon: When you say people are collectors of contemporary jewelry and art, are they people who might say to you, “I want a Babetto piece. Call me any time you get one,” or do they just come in and look around? Thereza: Both. Sometimes there is someone who is really looking for a Babetto piece, and they come to us because they are looking for a specific piece or a specific artist. We also have collectors that just come inside because they want to have a look, or they come every two or three months to see what is new at the gallery. With the internet, now we are working a lot online also. It happens often that whoever comes to the gallery was already checking our website, especially our Instagram page. So, when they come to the gallery—because we publish almost every day—often they come to the gallery and already know what they want to see in real life. They come and say, “Oh, I saw this artist and that artist on your Instagram page or on your website. I want to see this and that piece in real life and decide between them.” There are people that come inside without knowing what they are looking for. There are people that come to have a look at specific pieces, and there are people that really collect. They decide before, “I want a piece of this artist,” and they come to see what we have of this specific artist. Sharon: We will have photos posted on the website. Please head to TheJewelryJourney.com to check them out.
(Segment 1, From 03.11.23) Another busy week at Jesse Brown's Outdoors and on the website as the Jesse Brown's Outdoors crew packs and ships their wares all over the United States. How do we gauge a good week? Well, one way is by counting the number of days that Lead Guide Dave Bergman is on the water. So far this week we have only seen Dave in the store once. That means he has been taking clients out to the stream! While Dave is doing that everyone else has been flipping the store to make space for Spring apparel from Saxx, Patagonia, Free Fly, and Tasc. Meanwhile, the footwear area has been relocated to give you more space and so we can fit all of the new boots and shoes from Salomon, Asolo, Oboz, Keens, and On Running. We all Spring Forward one hour as Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 2AM. What does that mean? Longer days to make it happen outside!
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations are trending right across Africa. In this podcast, Africa Legal's Tom Pearson speaks to members of ALN Nigeria and ALN Kenya to explore how mergers and acquisitions and corporate transaction trends are shaping business. A robust legal and regulatory premise for ESG, in addition to businesses taking the initiative more seriously, is fast evolving, explain Ajibola Asolo and Adeolu Idowu from Aluko & Oyebode | ALN Nigeria. Asolo says there are a number of regulations which apply to companies in Nigeria. “The principal legislation that applies to corporates in Nigeria, the Companies and Allied Matters Act, imposes a duty on directors to ensure that they act in the best interest of companies, and that companies have due regard to the environment and communities in which the operations are based.” In addition, Asolo notes that there are guidelines issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission in Nigeria that set out broad principles and recommendations pertaining to sustainable finance. These guidelines essentially mandate all of the Commission's regulatees to report on the progress relating to the implementation of ESG principles in their annual reports, among other things. Asolo also points out that the Petroleum Industry Act, which covers companies in the energy space, sets out regulatory imperatives designed to ensure that companies operating in this space meet the requisite health, safety, and environmental standards. Dominic Rebelo, partner at Anjarwalla & Khanna | ALN Kenya, shares his insights on the regulatory environment in the East African region. He says Kenya should be one of the leaders on the continent – and potentially globally – in terms of environmental protection. “We had a new Constitution in 2010 which was one of its kind in that it entrenched environmental protection in its preamble, where it states specifically that the people of Kenya are determined to sustain the environment for future generations. And then in the body of the Constitution itself, it gives as a fundamental right, the right to a clean and healthy environment for every person in Kenya. So that's a huge right to be given under the Constitution. It applies to everybody living in Kenya and then obligates the government to put in place the protections required to ensure that their right is met,” says Rebelo. Rebelo adds that legislation like the Climate Change Act and the Energy Act has pushed the country to generate power from more green resources. Idowu reckons that there is a global focus on renewable energy, and whether in the environmental, social or governance space, it's just good business to have strong ESG practices and to create a structure that embeds as many of the principles as possible. With Nigeria having the highest volume of M&A in the finance, energy and petroleum sector, particularly in mining and utilities, she explains why major oil and gas companies are divesting of their onshore assets.
Montelvini torna sul podio di Vinibuoni d'Italia per il secondo anno consecutivo: a ricevere la Corona, il più alto riconoscimento conferito dalla guida, è il Serenitatis Asolo Prosecco Superiore Docg Extra Brut Millesimato 2021, un'etichetta che, grazie al suo pacato equilibrio sensoriale tra contenuto zuccherino - leggermente più basso della media - e corpo del vino, esprime l'universo dei profumi e dei colori di Asolo.
Venice might be the glamour girl of the Veneto Region Italy.But there is so much more to this amazing region in Northeastern Italy.Historical and beautiful cities such as Verona and Vicenza.Small towns such as Asolo, Basso del Grappa, Belluno and Marostica.The wine growing regions of Valpolicella and Prosecco.The Eastern half of Lago d'Garda.And the mountains of the Dolomites.The Veneto Region of Italy is incredibly diverse.You'll even find some wetlands here filled with birds.Yup.This region is one of the best in Italy for those seeking a bit of everything Italy has to offer.Tune in to this episode to learn more about the Veneto Region Italy.Want to chat more about this wonderful Italian region?Email me at lynne@wanderyourway.com.In this episode:1:04: Placing the Veneto on the map2:30: Venice6:32: Vicenza9:44: Verona14:41: Valpolicella Wine Region16:56: Eastern shore of Lago di Garda18:54: Treviso and Conegliano, the Prosecco Wine Region21:29: Parco Nazionale delle Dolomiti Bellunesi & Belluno23:51: Cortina d'Ampezzo & Parco Naturale delle Dolomiti d'Ampezzo26:36: Bassano del Grappa27:45: Asolo28:21: Marostica29:42: Parco Regionale Veneto del Delta del Po30:56: Wrapping it up33:56: Announcement — I'm on Patreon!35:45: Listener QuestionImportant links:The 7 Best Things To Do in the Veneto ItalyThe Beautiful City of Verona Italy: It's More Than Romeo and JulietValpolicella Wine Region ItalyValpolicella: The Best Italian Wine Region You've Never DoneDiscovering the Stunning Marano di Valpolicella Italy10 of My Favorite Amazing European Cities Veneto TourismVisit VeronaTorre dei LambertiParco Nazionale delle Dolomiti BellunesiParco Regionale Veneto del Delta del PoWander Your Way Travel GuidesPatreonSupport the show
La cantina La Tordera ha sede a Vidor nel cuore della denominazione Valdobbiadene Conegliano Prosecco Superiore DOCG, tra Venezia e le Dolomiti. Qui, da più di un secolo, la famiglia Vettoretti trasforma le sue uve in eleganti spumanti Valdobbiadene Docg. Ogni fase della produzione si svolge nella moderna cantina Certificata CasaClima Wine. La Tordera ospita al suo interno un wine shop per gli acquisti e per gli assaggi; diverse le opportunità di visita e degustazione.Oggi l'azienda opera nel canale HoReca in Italia ed esporta i proprio spumanti in oltre 35 paesi nel mondo. L'azienda è certificata CasaClimaWine - FSSC 22000 – SQNPI La Tordera, da più di un secolo, trasforma le sue uve in eleganti spumanti Valdobbiadene Docg. Ogni fase della produzione si svolge nella moderna cantina Certificata CasaClima Wine. La Tordera ospita al suo interno un wine shop per gli acquisti e per gli assaggi; diverse le opportunità di visita e degustazione.Il percorso aziendale intrapreso e fortemente voluto dalla famiglia Vettoretti si identifica con il concetto “Natural Balance” che vuole valorizzare il grande impegno dell'azienda per una produzione che rispetti il territorio e sia vera espressione dell'essenza dell'uva e delle diversità dei singoli vigneti di proprietà nelle aree del Cartizze, di Valdobbiadene, Asolo e del Prosecco Doc. Alla base della filosofia del Natural Balance della famiglia Vettoretti composta da Renato, Gabriella, Paolo con i genitori Mirella e Pietro, vi è la costante ricerca dell'equilibrio “naturale” tra il lavoro, l'attenzione per la terra ed i suoi frutti ed il rispetto per le persone e le future generazioni.Il Natural Balance si traduce concretamente in una continua ricerca di sostenibilità, in un ciclo chiuso dalle pratiche agrarie in vigneto alla produzione di tutte le nostre bottiglie, alla scelta dei materiali del nostro packaging, alla struttura aziendale nella quale quotidianamente operiamo. L'impegno si concretizza in una serie di pratiche che investono tutte le attività aziendali e che mirano a raggiungere il traguardo di una viticoltura sempre più green e di un'armonia con l'ambiente sul fronte della sostenibilità. Ogni passaggio è interamente seguito dalla Famiglia Vettoretti, un ciclo chiuso che abbiamo voluto riproporre con il segno grafico del cerchio posto accanto a Natural Balance. Tutte le bottiglie riportano sul collo un bollino con la dicitura Natural Balance; nella retro etichetta non solo le informazioni di legge, ma anche ulteriori come la dichiarazione del contenuto di solfiti ed il contenuto di zuccheri.
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Prosecco is more complex than we think. Yes, it's a great source for a casual glass of bubbles but it has a detailed serious side too. Take 10-minutes to find out why you should be buying and selling the full variety found in this region. Zardetto is a great launching pad for exploring the faces of Prosecco. Click here to check out their website. Vocabulary & places you will hear:Prosecco, Asolo, Conegliano, Valdobbiadene, Rive, Cartizze, Hogsback
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Join us for a drink as we Celebrate champagne season; Slay the wanna - be Miss Cleo (PECOTA) prediction makers; Provide postseason predictions; Discuss Russian Actresses making movies in space; And we clutch our pearls in Atlanta Drinks: Spanish Orange Tea; and Kirkland Prosecco from Asolo, Veneto, Italy Instagram: @Hipster Baseball Podcast #HBPDrink Twitter: @HBP4040 #HBPDrink Intro and Outro music: DeCarlo
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In questo nuovo episodio di JJGOLF, ho il piacere di fare 2 chiacchiere con Giacomo Camocardi, un ragazzo di Modena di 14 anni, giocatore della Nazionale Italiana di Golf, che sto accompagnando in questa nuova trasferta in occasione del Campionato Nazionale Pulcini ad Asolo. Con Giacomo tocchiamo argomenti molto interessanti, dalla sua recente esperienza in Belgio, per gli Internazionali di Belgio under 14 con la Nazionale Italiana di Golf, a cosa vuol dire e come ci si sente a vestire la maglietta azzurra in quelle occasioni, e di come nello sport, e a maggior ragione nel gioco del golf, non bisogna mai mollare e non arrendersi, perchè non sai mai quando arriverà il tuo momento, ma bisogna farsi trovare pronti, e anche se i risultati per un periodo fanno fatica ad arrivare, bisogna continuare ad impegnarsi, allenarsi e non perdere mai l'entusiasmo e la passione nel giocare e praticare questo gioco stupendo, perchè in poco tempo, tutto può evolversi per il meglio. Buon ascolto a tutti e in bocca al lupo a Giacomo per il suo torneo!!!
La cantina produttori di Valdobbiadene lancia una sfida ambiziosa per il prossimo futuro: provare a segmentare e valorizzare una delle produzioni più importanti al mondo per volumi. È già qualche anno che l'areale di produzione del prosecco vuole dividere ulteriormente le tre celebri denominazioni d'origine: il Prosecco Superiore di Conegliano Valdobbiadene, quello di Asolo e dei colli Asolani e poi la macro-denominazione del Prosecco Doc che va da Vicenza al Veneto Occidentale.
Prosecco is not only Italy's most popular sparkler, but recently it has surpassed Champagne to become the world's best-selling sparkling wine. In this show we go over the details of the Prosecco region, the winemaking techniques, and I share the most important thing about the wine and how to get the best: the DOCGs that make way better wine than the cheap and cheerful stuff at the supermarket. By the end of the show you'll understand why Prosecco shouldn't be compared to Champagne (spoiler alert – it's not made the same and that's on purpose!) and how to get better versions of what you may already be sipping! Photo Valdobiaddene, Unsplash Here are the show notes: Location: The Prosecco DOC is in North East Italy between the Dolomite Mountains and the Adriatic Sea. It spans four provinces of the regions of Friuli Venezia Giulia (Gorizia, Pordenone, Trieste and Udine) and 5 provinces of the region of Veneto (Belluno, Padua, Treviso, Venice, Vicenza). Treviso and Trieste can add the special titles of Prosecco DOC Treviso and Prosecco DOC Trieste given their historic importance. Given the vast area the DOC covers (23,000 ha/56,000 acres) and the diversity of soil – from poor hilltops to fertile, loamy valleys and plains – it is difficult to name a single style of Prosecco. Climates also range –from cooler sites with mountain or marine breezes, to very warm flat areas that produce masses of grapes for industrial wine. Source: Prosecco DOC Grape: The Glera grape is the main grape in Prosecco (although it used to be called the Prosecco grape!). It is grape prone to high yields, which must be controlled to get high quality wine. When it is grown on good sites, it has moderately high acidity, a lighter body, and relatively low alcohol levels (the wines are usually not more than 12% alcohol by volume). Flavors range but typically Glera exhibits melon, peach, pear, and white flower notes. Prosecco can also have up to 15% Verdiso, Bianchetta Trevigiana, Perera, Glera lunga, Chardonnay, Pinot Bianco, Pinot Grigio, and Pinot Nero grapes in the blend. Source: Prosecco DOC Prosecco is NOT Champagne and it shouldn't be compared to it (or any of the other wines made in that method). The key difference in the flavor of Prosecco, apart from the Glera grape, is in the winemaking techniques (again, different from Champagne!!). In this process, you harvest the grape and make wine through a primary fermentation. But whereas in the traditional method of sparkling wine, where secondary fermentation takes place in individual bottles, Prosecco's secondary fermentation takes place in autoclaves, large steel tanks kept under pressure. The process takes as little as a month (versus the required 9 months for most sparkling wine in made in the traditional method), and the wines do not rest sur lie for a long period of time, so the fruitiness of the Glera grape is maintained, rather than replaced with the yeasty, bready character from the yeast. Further, the pressure within the bottle is significantly less in Prosecco, making it a much less bubbly wine in most cases (although there are exceptions). The process has several names: the Martinotti Method, the Charmat Method, Cuve Close, Tank Method, or Conegliano-Valdobbiadene Method. It's important to recognize that for grapes like Glera (or Riesling in Germany where this method is also used) preserving aroma while getting a fresh effervescence is the goal – they should not be handled like grapes used for the traditional method – the goal of those wines is different. Hence, we should not be comparing Prosecco to Champagne or other sparkling wines – it's apples and oranges, really. Source: Prosecco DOC There are several types of Prosecco, they vary based on how sparkling they are: Spumante (sparkling), which is the most common and the most bubbly and has a regular sparkling wine cork In 2020, Prosecco DOC Rosé was approved as a new sub-category of Spumante. It must contain at least 85% Glera with 10-15% Pinot Nero. The wine must use the Martinotti/Charmat Method but spend 60 days in autoclave v 30 days for Prosecco DOC. It is vintage dated. Frizzante (semi-sparkling), which has light and less persistent bubbles than Spumante an is more floral than fruity and often bottled with a screw cap. Proseccco Col Fondo, is a frizzante, but more specifically a pétillant naturel(pét-nat). That means a single fermentation takes place in the bottle from which you drink the wine. It is cloudy and full of lees, or dead yeast cells, and often a bit bready from years on the lees. Tranquillo (still), which is very uncommon and is bottled before the secondary fermentation Similar to all sparkling wines, there is a sweetness scale for these wines, which you will see on the label: Brut Nature (0-3 grams per liter of residual sugar) Extra Brut (0-6 g/l of residual sugar) Brut (up to 12 grams per liter of residual sugar) Extra Dry (12–17 g/l of residual sugar) Dry (17–32 g/l of residual sugar) Demi-sec (32-50 g/l of residual sugar) The DOCG The 20% of high quality Prosecco production happens around the smaller, hilly, historic DOCG towns of Conegliano, Valdobbiadene and Asolo. These areas have strong diurnals, poorer soils (meaning, better for the vines), and the wines are a few steps above general Prosecco. They are more complex, the fruit flavors are purer – lemon, peach, pear notes are strong as well as floral notes, flintiness, chalk, and saline aromas and flavors. The wines tend to have lower levels of sugar and are more terroir driven. They are trying to distance themselves from cheaper big-brand Prosecco DOC, some even have elected to remove the world “Prosecco” from their front labels. Here are the Prosecco Superiore DOCG to seek out: Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG is a cut above and it's a fairly low risk way to see how better Prosecco tastes. Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore “Rive” DOCG is from the steep hills and top vineyards of 43 designated sites – these are outstanding terroir driven wines Valdobbiadene Superiore di Cartizze DOCG is the top wine of Prosecco. It consists of 107 ha/264 acres of vineyards on the steepest hillsides of San Pietro di Barbozza, Santo Stefano and Saccol, in Valdobbiadene. Asolo Prosecco DOCG is outstanding, with great salinity and minerality as well ________________________________________________ Thanks to our sponsors: Thanks to YOU! 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This week we tackle on of this year's most popular road trips -- the Grand Circle road trip in the Southwest USA. And we have the perfect guest! Anne Howard from Honeytrek shares her insights and tips after having spent weeks in this region over multiple trips. About Anne Howard Anne is the co-founder of the couples adventure travel blog HoneyTrek and co-author of the books Comfortably Wild: The Best Glamping Destinations in North America and National Geographic's Ultimate Journeys for Two. Since 2012, Anne and her husband Mike have been traveling full-time across the seven continents and have road tripped from Baja to The Arctic Circle and 50 US States in between. Mike & Anne Howard left on their honeymoon in January 2012...and never came home. They created HoneyTrek.com to chronicle their journey across all seven continents and help people mobilize their travel dreams. Their story of the World's Longest Honeymoon, savvy tips, and blog have been featured in hundreds of international media outlets—from USA Today to Lonely Planet. Firm believers that love and travel make the world a better place, they authored Ultimate Journeys for Two—National Geographic's bestselling couples travel guide. To write their newest book, Comfortably Wild, they bought a vintage RV (aka Buddy the Camper) and traveled 73,000 miles across 9 countries to find the best glamping experiences in North America. Along the way, they fell in love with RVing and have made Buddy their full-time adventure mobile. They've taken their 1985 Toyota Sunrader from the tip of Baja Mexico to the Arctic Circle of Canada and 50 US states in between. As full-time nomads and travel journalists, the Howards are always on the hunt for off-the-track destinations, uncommon adventures, and the human stories that make each place so special. Follow their adventures at www.HoneyTrek.com or on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. You can also see a gallery of photos from their Grand Circle Road Trip on Facebook. Tips for Planning a Grand Circle Road Trip The Grand Circle road trip is the loop of national parks and monuments in the Southwest including the Zion, Bryce, Capitol Reef, Canyonlands, Arches, the Grand Canyon and many other national monuments, tribal lands, and state parks along the way. Trying to hit the six big National Parks, you need at least two weeks to adequately cover the Grand Circle road trip. You want to leave time to stop at roadside shops, restaurants, photo opportunities, etc along the way. Utah has such amazing landscapes but also has many dinosaur fossils. To start the road trip, fly into Las Vegas. Sometimes camping or RVing in the parks sounds ideal, but it can get hard to find campsites in the national parks so sometimes staying in hotels or other lodging can actually be better. Keep in mind that big RVs aren't able to go in some areas of the national parks and driving a large RV on the small roads or fitting into parking lots can be a big challenge. If you are renting an RV to do the Grand Circle road trip, stick to an RV that is 27' or smaller. The ideal size is probably 22 feet. From Las Vegas, it is only a three hour drive to Zion National Park (versus four hours from Phoenix to the Grand Canyon.) From Zion you will go to Bryce along Highway 12, which is a gorgeous scenic drive. You will also pass by Escalante National Monument, which is massive and you want to leave some time to explore. You will then go to Capitol Reef, then Arches National Park, before heading down to the Grand Canyon. Don't just follow Google Maps, which will just route you the fastest way. After Canyonlands, leave time to go to Bears Ears National Monument, which is underrated but is a sacred destination for various Native American nations and you will have an opportunity to see cliff dwellings and petroglyphs and it is not crowded at all. You will also want to leave time on your trip down to the Grand Canyon to swing through Monument Valley and the Navajo nation's lands and tribal parks. Just 15 minutes or so away from Monument Valley is Goosenecks State Park. It has a double loop in the river, which is a much better photo opportunity than the popular Horseshoe Bend and it is inexpensive and not crowded. It is a true hidden gem! Beyond the national parks, look for other types of public lands -- national forests, Bureau of Land Management land, etc. To find public lands and campsites, you can use iOverlander and UCPublic CG Ultimate Campgrounds app. But please leave reviews and share useful information to grow these communities. Don't miss hiking the slot canyons of Spooky and Peekaboo Canyons in Escalante National Monument. It is a tough road to get there and one is a more technical hike, but doable for kids and well worth the effort. They can get very narrow at points, sometimes no wider than a foot. A more family friendly hike between Bryce and Escalante is Willis Creek Slot canyon. Keep in mind that this could be icy in the winter. This is also much easier to get to. Escalante Yurts is a great spot to glamp when you are in this area. Make sure you hike a slot canyon while in Utah. You can also plan other adventures, like canyoneering in Orderville Slot Canyon near Zion or off-roading in Moab, where there is some of the best off-roading in the world, or do a scenic flight over Canyonland and Arches. Bryce also has astronomy rangers and you can do full moon hikes twice a month. Some big adventures need permits, such as hiking the Narrows. Try to do the national parks midweek and state parks on the weekend to try to avoid some crowds. This can also be a good winter road trip when it isn't as crowded and it can be beautiful in the snow, but not everything may be available. Spring is another great time because there is more water running, more flowers, and it isn't as hot as summer. These areas are warmer during the day and can get colder at night, so be prepared. In Arches, if you can't do the whole park because you are pressed for time, make sure you hike Devil's Garden with the largest concentration of arches. Zion isn't that large and doesn't take too long to do. Canyonlands is huge, and there are also two separate entrances, which makes it almost like two separate parks. The Island in the Sky in the north end near Moab is actually hours aways from the Needle section. The Needle section is actually less traveled and very lovely. Make sure you spend time understanding the Native American history for all of these places. When you are traveling in the Needles section of Canyonlands, Newspaper Rock is a quick stop but it has two thousand years of history in petroglyphs. (Note: this was recently horribly and thoughtlessly defaced.) The Butler Wash Ruins in Bears Ears is another great place to see amazing cliff dwellings from the 1200s (similar to Mesa Verde in Colorado.) Glamping is a great way to experience the outdoors and this area including Under Canvas, which is usually just outside of the national parks, and Wunder Camp, which has a series of camps near national parks but at a lower price point. Be sure to buy Anne's book, Comfortably Wild: The Best Glamping Destinations in North America , for more glamping suggestions. If you need to skip something, you can miss the full 18-mile scenic drive in Bryce as the best parts are at the beginning and it is an out and back drive and not a loop. Be careful about hiking down the Grand Canyon as you have to hike back up and it is a tough hike and plan accordingly with time, water, and energy. This is a good trip to buy a National Parks Pass. It would also be useful to buy the Secrets to the National Parks and Scenic Highways and Byways books for the trip. Anne also covers a lot of the southwest, including Moab and a southwest road trip section, in her book Ultimate Journeys for Two. When visiting this area, make sure you pack a good wide brim sunhat to block the strong sun and layers to deal with the changing temperatures. Anne recommends Asolo hiking boots for women and men, as well as Kyodan leggings with pockets. Full Episode Transcript [00:00:00.060] - Kim Tate Stay tuned, because today we're circling around the southwest. [00:00:16.090] - Announcer Welcome to Vacation Mavens. A family travel podcast with ideas for your next vacation and tips to get you out the door. Here are your hosts, Kim from Stuffed Suitcase and Tamara from We3Travel. [00:00:31.000] - Tamara Gruber Hey, Kim, I've missed talking to you. [00:00:33.580] - Kim Tate I know it's crazy. I feel like we just got done saying, like, we're back and now we are. We had another break. [00:00:39.430] - Tamara Gruber So it's you know, we've gone to these every other week episodes for a while because we weren't traveling. And now I think we're going to start traveling, which makes it hard find time to record. But in the meantime, we've gotten some feedback from our listeners. And I thought we should maybe take a little bit of time before our interview today just to share a little bit of the feedback, because I always love it when our listeners come back with some advice and some recommendations of their own. [00:01:08.060] - Tamara Gruber So I thought it would be great to share. [00:01:09.700] - Kim Tate Yeah, definitely. I love knowing that people are actually listening to us because I really like you and I just love talking to each other and it's kind of fun. But to actually know that people actually care and like us, it's awesome. [00:01:21.400] - Tamara Gruber I know we say it all the time, but we really, really do get a big smile on our face every time we get, you know, one of these kind of comments or emails or messages. And it just, you know, definitely makes us happy to know we aren't just talking into the void. But I wanted to share about our episode, probably a month or two now ago, we talked about some of our favorite hotels in Florida with Joella. [00:01:43.330] - Tamara Gruber And I got a message from David and Karen from family boarding pass, and they had some to recommend also. So I thought I would share those because I feel like it is prime vacation planning time right now. And I know that hotels, especially in Florida, getting really booked up. So they had recommended the Pink Shell Hotel, which is in Fort Myers Beach and also the Hilton in Clearwater. And there's lots to do around there. You can walk to beach locations and they also have additional activities like kayaks and bike rentals. [00:02:12.610] - Tamara Gruber And I know that they gave one other recommendation for old Key West, but unfortunately, that part of the message got cut off. And so, you know, thanks, guys, for sending that in. I always love finding new hotels that people that are like me have tried and liked. So check those out if you're looking for a stay on the west coast of Florida, the summer. [00:02:32.860] - Kim Tate Yeah, I definitely feel like hotels are kind of people seem to be really into resort vacations right now, and I think it's just they're starting to get ready to branch out a little more. But organizing tours and with some things being closed down, hotels are definitely getting some good travel. I am going to share something because speaking of hotels, we recently had Episode one eight five and we talked to Nate from Room Steals and we actually had a listener, pint sized mommy who left us a message on our Instagram post about it, saying that she used her Room Steals to book a hotel and she saved four hundred and forty five dollars. [00:03:08.980] - Kim Tate And so she thanked us for that episode. And I think that's cool like we were talking about. It's fun to know that we're actually helping our listeners, too. [00:03:16.360] - Tamara Gruber So it's a reminder to go back and use that too because, you know, I, of course, like added the extension and then said, I'm not always using chrome. A lot of times I do my searches either on my phone or in Safari. And so I need to go back and try to use that because I am trying to book some things, you know, in the next couple of weeks. So maybe I can get a deal, too, because. [00:03:36.850] - Tamara Gruber Yeah, Elisa, that's amazing. I mean, 440 dollars. That's that's substantial. [00:03:42.400] - Kim Tate Yeah, it is. And you know, one of the cool things, you know, we had originally when we were talking to Nate, I wondered about if it defaults to a specific room taken, families might be stuck. But I actually tried it out myself when I was looking at some hotels for a trip that we're planning coming up. And you can actually click through and then you can see different room types and the pricing that they found for those different room types. [00:04:03.220] - Kim Tate Even so, it's not like you're just buying one room or one price and you just get stuck with whatever room. So they still have the ability to choose a specific room, which was cool. But just so everyone knows, it only works on like aggregator sites like Expedia and stuff like that. It doesn't work if you just go to like Marriott Dotcom. So the idea is that it's it uses those aggregate bulk pricing sites. [00:04:27.730] - Tamara Gruber Interesting. Yeah, it's good to know. Yeah. And I also wanted to give a shout out to Patty from following the magic on Instagram. She has been a follower for a bit and she gave us some feedback that she really loved the episode that we were talking about my road trip because remember how I went on and on and I felt like it was so long. And so she was like, no, no, I love listening to you guys, you know, share about your travels. [00:04:48.310] - Tamara Gruber And so I just want to say thank you. I definitely appreciate that. And I know that those always tend to get a little bit even higher downloads than some of the other episodes. And so we are traveling again. And so you'll hear more of those coming up. But that Patti, thanks for that feedback. [00:05:04.420] - Kim Tate Yeah, we loved hearing that. And it's so funny to actually have her message that because it made Tamara and I both look and we're like, yeah, when you look at download numbers, which with podcasting, you don't get a lot of statistics, but you can definitely see download numbers and then listening time and Tamara and I have both have noticed that you guys seem to like when it's just us rambling on like nonsense. So that's good to know. But we also wanted to take a moment to reach out to you guys and tell you that we're thinking about doing a mailbag episode. [00:05:33.520] - Kim Tate And if you're a podcast, avid podcast listener, you probably have heard of this where the episode will just be filled with questions from our, you know, listeners. If you guys have a question about maybe you're planning a trip, you need advice, maybe you want Tamara and I to look at a specific destination and help you pick a hotel, maybe you need help with an itinerary or destination ideas, any of that. We would love to hear from you and help you do some travel planning or give you some travel tips. [00:06:00.160] - Kim Tate So if you have any thoughts or questions for us, send us an email at podcast@VacationMavens.com, or you can always reach out to us on social media @stuffedsuitcase or @we3travel or even @vacationmavens and send us a message. So just let us know and we would love to hear from you and be able to do an episode all about our, you know, our listeners questions. [00:06:23.860] - Tamara Gruber Yeah. And if we don't have the answer, we may know someone that does or will read it in. One of our listeners may tune in for the next episode to try to give us some answers. So it's the great thing about the community. But in the meantime, we're going to be talking about a really popular road trip. I feel like especially this year, I feel like everyone that I know seems to be planning a trip out here. But a lot of our listeners have also asked for an episode for us to talk about the grand circle through a lot of the Southwest, the Utah parks and some of Arizona. [00:06:54.190] - Tamara Gruber So we're going to be chatting with Anne Howard, who has spent so much time in this area. And this was an interview that I absolutely loved because she just had so many great tips to share. So definitely stay tuned. [00:07:05.770] - Kim Tate Yeah, we already love Anne and her enthusiasm about this subject will come through in this episode. So I hope you guys enjoy. [00:07:21.840] - Tamara Gruber So this week, we're here with Anne Howard and is the co-founder of the couples adventure travel blog, Honey Trek, and also the coauthor of books Comfortably Wild The Best Glamping Destinations in North America and National Geographic's Ultimate Journeys for Two. Since 2012, Anne her husband, Mike, has been traveling full time across the seven continents and have a road trip from Baja to the Arctic Circle and 50 United States in between. So Anne, you've been everywhere. Where are you right now? [00:07:48.870] - Anne Howard We are in San Miguel de Allende Mexico. [00:07:51.660] - Tamara Gruber Oh, I've heard such good things about that area. [00:07:54.170] - Anne Howard Yeah, it's always hard to leave. The camper waits and long term storage somewhere randomly outside of Sacramento, but I'm sure it'll be fine because you got to mix up your adventures domestically, internationally. So we'll be back to the camper in about two months. [00:08:07.500] - Tamara Gruber Yeah. What is the campers name, Buddy? [00:08:09.450] - Anne Howard His name is Buddy. Yeah, buddy. The camper. Good old buddy. [00:08:13.980] - Tamara Gruber Well, you took our you took Buddy on a big road trip. I mean, you've taken Buddy on many, many road trips. But one that I know a lot of our listeners have been asking about is the grand circle road trip is kind of a I'm not exactly sure where and when it got that name, but I've been hearing it kind of pop up in all kinds of chat groups and Facebook groups and things. It seems to be on everybody's radar this year. [00:08:36.690] - Tamara Gruber So I was hoping maybe you could tell us a little bit about what exactly is a grand circle type of Southwest road trip? What does it include? [00:08:45.570] - Anne Howard Yeah, the grand circle. I mean, conveniently, many of the most amazing national parks of the Southwest are in a sort of natural loop. Zion, Bryce Canyon lands arches and the Grand Canyon all connect. But what makes it even grander is that there are many national monuments, state parks, Navajo tribal parks that that actually follow this route as well. So it's as grand as you want it to be. And in reality, we've actually done it over the course of two years, really many years. [00:09:20.340] - Anne Howard We've done many of these parks many times. And then a certain point we're like, wait a second, we just did the Grand Circle Road trip. And because it doesn't need to follow such a linear path, but in its classic sense, it's hitting those big five national parks. But we really encourage people to take as long as they can. And rather than really rush and think about it is like a bucket list thing, like I must do it all in one loop. [00:09:43.500] - Anne Howard It might be two different trips for you. And that's OK. I'd actually prefer people break it up into two trips because I'd hate to see race by all these other fabulous things just to have it be a check on your bucket list. [00:09:57.110] - Kim Tate Yeah, totally, I know we talked to I can't remember who our guest was, I want to say, Alison, it was perhaps a while back like it was one of our first episodes. So we'll have to link in the show notes to that episode. But she had mentioned, like, how amazing many of the Utah state parks are and that they can have a lot less of the crowds and offer some of the same amazing scenery. So I agree with what you're saying. [00:10:19.920] - Kim Tate Like this type of thing isn't maybe to be rushed through and split it up a little and decide, you know, take it in parts maybe. But it is a lot of ground. Yeah, definitely. It's a lot of ground to cover. [00:10:37.550] - Anne Howard I missed one. So it's Zion, Bryce Capital, Reef, Canyonlands, Arches and Grand Canyon. So six are technically on there. But like I said, there's so many more wonderful national mountains, the state parks along the way. [00:10:48.710] - Kim Tate Yeah, of course. I think Grand Canyon throwing it in there throws off the big five. That is Utah's big thing. Yeah, it is. It really is. All you tell you. [00:10:56.150] - Kim Tate Yeah. So do you think how many days, you know, if they are going to try and do it as the grand circle, you know, how many days do you think they. I'm I'm sure you guys are going to say two months, but somebody is going to try and do it with a standard vacation allotment. How many days do you think they need to adequately make the grand circle trip? [00:11:15.110] - Anne Howard I would say really two week minimum if you could. But every anything is possible, right? You could do all the parts and just, you know, one day I think it's nicer to be at them two days each. There are some sometimes was more significant travel days. You have to realize you're not going to do all of Zion one day and then all of the other because you're going to be you need to actually get between those places, those you happen to be closer than the others, but it's hard to get from Canyonlands to Grand Canyon. [00:11:43.640] - Anne Howard So that's you have to buffer in a little bit of extra time. And you just you know, that is always the serendipity of a road trip, is you never know what you're going to find along the way so that having those those stops and when you see them incredible photo stop, a fun rock shop, a neat roadside restaurant, you don't want to squander those things. [00:12:00.590] - Kim Tate Mm hmm. Yeah. There's nothing worse than being on a road trip. And, you know, like because I've experienced this, unfortunately, where you're like, sorry, we don't have time to stop. And like, you actually start skipping like turnouts. Yeah, no, we're not going to get a snack there because we have to get to this hotel and it's almost dark. And, you know, the office closes at ten and that's just miserable. [00:12:20.090] - Kim Tate You don't you don't want that life. [00:12:21.890] - Anne Howard Yeah, totally. [00:12:23.390] - Tamara Gruber I feel like especially that part of the country, you know, for many of us, it's just such a different landscape. It's such a unique place that you do want to stop. Like, would I usually want to stop at a rock shop? No, probably not. But I don't know if I've really seen a rock shop, so maybe I do want to stop. [00:12:39.740] - Anne Howard You do want to stop at at rock shop. Utah particularly has incredible history and not just geologically, but also dinosaurs. I mean, you'd stop at a rock shot. You're like, I'm pretty sure that's a Tyrannosaurus Rex femur in this guy's backyard. Like, are you serious right now? Like, there's some crazy roadside things to see, especially when it comes to rocks and bones and probably a lot of crafts, too, right? [00:13:06.080] - Anne Howard For sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:13:08.300] - Tamara Gruber So I guess the point is, like, where do you start? Do you typically would you fly into Phoenix, would you fly into Vegas. Like what is if you're not driving buddy, you know, where do you usually start? [00:13:20.510] - Anne Howard And even though it seems like we have an advantage because we do have a camper, we actually have have done this road trip in many ways. So while we love RV and can sing those praises, we've also done it as traditional road trips where we stayed in camping camps and some of the historic park lodges. So I think it's actually just as cool a trip either way. So don't feel bad if you don't have an RV if you wanted to try it. [00:13:43.220] - Anne Howard I think it's an awesome way to do it. But it's also really tricky to camp in national parks. They fill up fast. They're crowded, like sometimes camping in RV and national parks is not the way to go. So I think you could do it whichever way makes you happy, because there are so many charming lodging options and they're not massive distances. So you it's you're going to get to your destination before sunset and check into a into a camp or a hotel. [00:14:11.030] - Anne Howard So it doesn't have to be that way, even though I am a fan of RV. But I would say if you are going to fly in and rent a car or rent an RV, flying into Vegas just makes a lot of sense. If you from from Vegas, it's like under three hours to Zion and there's plenty of cool things. One, there's Vegas is its own phenomenon. So if you want to spend the night there just for fun, it's it's a great kid friendly place as well. [00:14:33.860] - Anne Howard But then you to get to Zion in under three hours versus if you came from Phoenix is more like four hours the Grand Canyon. And it's just kind of a slog and it's like Vegas ready for that road trip and you know, people are coming for it. So I that would be my recommendation. [00:14:49.010] - Kim Tate That's some great advice. And I think, you know, one other tidbit about that is I'll never forget being in Yellowstone and seeing the campers and even though they. Parking for RVs. You know, it seems like sometimes the stress for those guys getting in and out of some of those turnouts, especially when you're looking at the bison further, you know, in Lamar Valley, there was times where you just couldn't get in there. And that's kind of disappointing. [00:15:12.640] - Kim Tate So I see what you mean about maybe RV's aren't the best for national parks. [00:15:16.170] - Anne Howard Also that also small, big RV's are not the best for national parks. There are length restrictions on many of these like wonderful winding roads that you want to be on. So if you are going to rent an RV, like keep it under twenty seven feet, we think the smaller the better. We think the perfect size of twenty two because yeah. You'll get boxed out of certain opportunities because of your length. [00:15:36.750] - Kim Tate Well so we talked about flying into Vegas. You think that that's a good one. So does that mean then you're like there's a certain direction that you take the loop or a certain order that you hit the hit the six parks. [00:15:46.480] - Anne Howard Yeah. I mean, from there you're going to go to to Zion and then you're going to then is Bryce one of the Highway 12 is absolutely gorgeous, like going along that way. But then as you're going to also be passing through Escalante National Monument, which is massive. So you want to give that some extra time, if you can, before heading into Capitol Reef, then Canyonlands. And then I had my map up and then my computer crashed. [00:16:12.270] - Anne Howard And I don't have my map in front of me right now. [00:16:14.230] - Kim Tate And I think it's Arches. [00:16:16.020] - Anne Howard Then Arches, then Canylonlands. And then down to Grand Canyon. But then once again, you're going to pass through if you're going to go just the straight Google map, fastest way they're going to have you skip major things. You also have an opportunity from Canyonlands to go through Bears Ears National Monument, which is totally underrated. It is an incredible sacred destination for various Native American tribes. So incredible opportunities to see cliff dwellings and petroglyphs. [00:16:43.110] - Anne Howard And it's not traveled at all. So that's a gem. We actually lived in that area of Utah for two months doing a house that taking care of lots of turkeys and chickens. So and we lived we actually took care of a house for two park rangers. So they knew all the best places. And we had an incredible time. And then once again, they might want to speed you just to get to take the fastest highway. No, you should certainly take the very slight detour to go through Monument Valley, which is the Navajo Nation. [00:17:10.740] - Anne Howard So, no, that's not a national park. But the equivalent of a Navajo national park is their tribal parks for Monument Valley. The highly recommend that before just racing down the Grand Canyon. [00:17:22.140] - Tamara Gruber I once drove through Monument Valley at sunset. And it was so magical. I mean, this area is not an area that I've had a chance to explore very much. But I did once, as I've told I think on the podcast before, I had to drive from San Diego to New York City after 9/11, and we were like, it was me and my boss, because we were stranded there. [00:17:42.990] - Tamara Gruber And we were like, if we're going to drive this way, we're going to see one thing. And so we decided to stop at the Grand Canyon and we basically had lunch, took a couple of pictures and then drove through Monument Valley up to Moab that night. But it was I think it was also that time that I was there that to see nature so beautifully and then the sun, it just it was kind of like a healing type of moment. [00:18:03.690] - Tamara Gruber But that area, I think a lot of people do kind of skip over and it's yes, definitely beautiful. [00:18:09.030] - Anne Howard And then actually one of our favorite, totally underrated state parks. I swear no one goes there. It is. And it's right next to to Monument Valley with like a 15 minute detour is called Gooseneck State Park. So everybody knows what Horseshoe Bend looks like. Right. It's probably the screensaver on your Windows PC right now. It's like that look like it's an arch with a river going around this peninsula. And it's stunning. Well, gooseneck is that Horseshoe Bend Times, too. [00:18:36.990] - Anne Howard So it's a double loop around two peninsulas with this snaking river, Red Rock, turquoise water. It is absolutely stunning. And it's five bucks to go and a million dollar photo op and you can camp there and no one's there that night and they barbecue pits and the whole thing. So that's that's a fun extra that I feel like I wouldn't have known without the help of my Utah Park Ranger friends. [00:19:00.090] - Tamara Gruber Yeah. And I feel like especially now, like this year, I think is going to be a little bit insane when it comes to going to a lot of these national parks. I mean, I've already seen arches tweeting almost every day that by like ten, eleven they're full. You know, it's something that people are going to get to really plan in advance and hopefully really look for those other kind of opportunities. But I feel like between the desire for everyone to be outside but still travel this year domestically and then Instagram, you know, the fact that, like now I see so many people are talking about, like, I want to go to Goblin or I want to like these different places that I had never heard of until Instagram. [00:19:37.170] - Tamara Gruber Right. So everyone's trying to get that photo op. Everyone's there at sunset or sunrise or, you know, the craziness of it. And I just, you know, I couldn't stand crowds before. So now I'm probably going to have, like, what's the phobia for crowds? I don't know. [00:19:49.110] - Anne Howard But that's why I also because that's I feel similarily about national parks and that's why we discovered public lands. For every national park, it's that's like the most protected designation of public lands, but then it it definitely eases up and opens up from there. So I highly encourage people instead of thinking I have to stay at the the National Park campground, look at the surrounding public lands. That means National Forests, Bureau of Land Management, land, and that's all wide open and it's usually free. [00:20:20.500] - Anne Howard So and there are no crowds and there are some some wonderful apps to find that kind of thing. I Overlander is a great app to find public lands, one of our favorite, which I will share, even though Mike is sort of territorial over it. But I do. I will share it if that you are one a good steward of the land and two, you leave a review because that's what this app lacks, is the community element of like people saying, hey, watch out for the pothole on the right or o sounds. [00:20:49.240] - Anne Howard That is even better over here. I Overlander has that. But the app and I'm, I tell you, UCPublic CG, which is Ultimate Campgrounds app, is an incredible, incredible resource to discover public lands and camping opportunities. It's like five dollars for the app and it's so worth that. So that is a great way to kind of get out of the fray of summer like the the national park traffic. [00:21:13.690] - Tamara Gruber So I know you don't want to give up all of your secrets, but since we're talking about these more off the beaten path parks and things that we should see, do you have a few others that you would recommend? That would be if you are looking for alternatives to some of the national parks or even if you can do a longer trip to add in there? [00:21:32.440] - Anne Howard Yeah, I mean, Escalante, national monument is massive and one of the coolest hikes ever. It's a challenging road to get out there and it's a kind of a typical hike. But I also did it with some friends and they had their little kids with them and they were having the best time ever. So I've seen, like, kids age seven do it. I've seen dogs do it. But please don't bring your dog. It's way too complicated for that. [00:21:53.290] - Anne Howard But Utah has amazing slot canyon. So no matter what, you can't leave Utah without hiking a slot canyon to the technical one I was describing. It's actually two that come together called spooky and peekaboo canyons. And it's sometimes it's only as wide as a foot. It's crazy. So a slot canyon, basically these sort of sheer walls that have been carved by a river or an erosion over time. And they kind of create this magical play of light and it's like a little bit of rock scrambling. [00:22:23.410] - Anne Howard And and it really is a full body experience. And it's totally magic for those. That's a more challenging version, another one that is super cool and very easy and family friendly. And just kind of on your way between Bryce and Escalante is called Willis Creek Canyon. Funny enough, we did it with my mom and we were staying at Escalante. It's a great camping camp. That's a really wonderful base for your trip. She's like, oh, do definitely do Willis Creek. [00:22:54.070] - Anne Howard And she didn't she didn't really mention that it might be frozen. So we were like ice skating there and well, still kind of through the river at one point. But it's only no matter what, it's only like four inches deep. So in the summer, that's going to feel really good. It's a waiting. You're wading through the water at very, very shallow levels. You're not going to worry. That swept away. And then it's maybe like a mile and a half and then, oh, it's like amazing. [00:23:19.180] - Anne Howard Slot Canyon appears at the end and it's not very crowded and it's it's really special. And that's like an easy detour, peekaboo and spooky or like a life experience and a drive and of itself, but very cool. So do slot canyon no matter what in Utah. Also like this is the land of true adventure. Do a do something big. Don't you see, I love hiking, but you have opportunities to try new things. So maybe it's doing canyoneering in Orderville slot Canyon near Zion or maybe it's doing a four by four trip in Moab because they have some of the best rock off roading in the world. [00:23:57.700] - Anne Howard Maybe it's doing the scenic flight to kind of get a sense of the geology from above what you can do for many places. But there's a great one that kind of loops over both canyons and arches that you could do another fun things if you can time your trip or with the full moon. Bryce does they have their astronomy rangers and you can do full moon hikes two nights of the month. So and that's a totally unique way to see the park. [00:24:25.420] - Anne Howard So, yeah, mix it up, try new adventures, be it hiking, getting a boat at some point, strapping yourself in for some canyoneering or hopping in four by four and challenge yourself to do something new. [00:24:38.400] - Kim Tate Yeah, I think that's great tips and kind of fun to think beyond, just, you know, like let's look for some fun hikes. You know, it is the adventure and there are soft adventures, you know. You know that you don't have to be, you know, jumping out of an airplane to have some adventures. Yeah. [00:24:53.880] - Tamara Gruber It's perfect for our teens too right Kim? [00:24:56.190] - Kim Tate Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I mean, I could see it being much better to kind of having teenagers if you have. They always like to have something unique that's cool and that they can brag about with friends. It's not just we went on a hike so. Yeah. Any other, you know, a must see attractions or experiences you think. I mean we've talked a lot in the past about, you know, we've talked about the Grand Canyon, the big five, house boating even on Lake Powell. [00:25:20.610] - Kim Tate But do you think there's any highlights that are certainly not to be missed? You've talked, of course, about, you know, getting beyond the beyond the standard, but what do you think are some of the must dos for that area? [00:25:31.600] - Anne Howard It was good to know that some of these truly iconic things like, say, for example, hiking the narrows, which is up around the Virgin River, is an amazing experience. But it needs a permit. So it's not a big deal is you need to know that certain big adventures need permits, not too many. But like, that's one of the most Instagramable things ever. Why? Because it's that popular. And as a result, you now need a permit. [00:25:54.450] - Anne Howard So don't let that deter you. But at the same time, like not, everything's always going to be available to you. I think to avoid some of this rush in general, though, is to know what days of the week you're going to like, maybe get your your national parks midweek and your state parks on the weekend and also your time of year. I think we chat about season later, but time of year is going to make a big difference about what things are available to you. [00:26:19.650] - Anne Howard We actually loved doing these this road trip in the winter when, like, no one's around and you know it like seeing like the red hoodies embrace of the blanket of snow or the layers of the Grand Canyon like feathered with white. It's an unbelievable. So I wouldn't rule out I don't want my neck to rush to do it this summer when it's the hottest. Like you can hurry up. Actually, spring is a great time to do it. And spring and winter, our favorite times to go to beat some of the crowds and actually see some more unique things. [00:26:47.880] - Anne Howard More water runs in the spring. More flowers come out in spring. [00:26:51.780] - Tamara Gruber I'm really glad to hear you say that about winter because there's been so many times where we've talked about doing it as like our we have a spring break in March. That's two weeks. And we're always like, is it going to be too cold or not? And dances are usually we'll head off somewhere internationally, but obviously not now. But is that what we were actually thinking, like, well, hey, maybe next year we can try to do it for March break. [00:27:15.660] - Tamara Gruber So if it if it's going to be nice in mid-March, it's still pleasant, you know, where you can still access everything. That sounds ideal to me. [00:27:24.360] - Anne Howard Yeah. And most of these areas like heat up during the day, they might drop in the morning at night, but it's usually pretty much always hiking weather. You disappear, maybe dress a little. And we actually saw the Grand Canyon in a blizzard, a straight blizzard. And but we had we actually had booked a room at the Bright Angel Lodge on the rim. Actually, that not that was luck. That happened to be one room left. And we took it and we woke up to just the sunniest Grand Canyon, all fluffy white. [00:27:49.980] - Anne Howard It was absolutely unreal. So I was like, what a benefit. We had seen the Grand Canyon the summer. I was like, wow, you can't beat winter. This is unreal. So, yeah, don't let nature deter you all year round is actually quite good. I'd say summer is probably the least desirable time to go. But hey, if that's what your schedule allows for kids, vacations, whatever, if you can make it work. [00:28:09.400] - Kim Tate Are there any do you think there's any, you know of the hikes of I mean I'm thinking about of course, Big five a little bit, but were there any hikes that you feel like you have to get there early or do you have to make time for this one? Because the the views are just epic? Or do you or do you feel like maybe there's a hike in, say, because I've seen like Bryce, it looks very different than arches, you know? [00:28:32.610] - Kim Tate So do you are there any that you're like, yeah, take your time, make sure you do get out and see this or anything like that. [00:28:39.960] - Anne Howard I see. Well, I mean, say in arches like hiking the devil's garden, if you can't do the whole park, what you know, if you're really crunched for time. Well, Devil's Garden has the largest concentration of natural arches in the world. So, like, that's some place to prioritize. But, you know, all of these parks, like our like Zion isn't that big a place. Arches isn't that big a place. Canyonlands is a massive place. [00:29:04.200] - Anne Howard And actually, Canyonlands is good to know that it's not one entrance. You actually it's almost two totally separate parks. So know that in your planning that the island in the sky in the north end near Moab is like hours away actually from the other end. The needle section, the needle section is actually less traveled and a really lovely and actually I'd say in general and needles is a good place to do this, but throughout is make sure you spend some time understanding, like the Native American history that goes with all of these places, because, of course, the geology says. [00:29:38.220] - Anne Howard Eye popping, but really there's there's incredible narratives from various, you know, from ancestral Pueblo ones to the more contemporary Navajo who are who hold these places as sacred and who left their mark in their own way. So like, say, for example, when you're driving the the long road needles to get to the section of Canyonlands newspaper Rock is a quick little stop. But you could certainly miss it if you're not paying attention. And it shows petroglyphs dating back two thousand years and starting with ancestral lines. [00:30:11.910] - Anne Howard But then, like other groups have layered on and layered on so called newspaper because like literally like kind of putting the news as time goes on on this rock. So it was incredible concentration of petroglyphs that actually are go pretty close to print. So it's very interesting the how different groups, you know, what they're what their symbols were and and spending some time learning about that also on the ancestral puebloan and sort of Native American history of the area. [00:30:42.180] - Anne Howard Bear Ears there's one place called there's many places, but the Butler Wash ruins is very easily accessible just off the road. And that's where you get to see amazing cliff dwellings from like the twelve hundreds. So it's so cool to see almost like a city in the rocks and in Mesa Verde National Park is an example of that in Colorado, the canyon all the way to Colorado on this trip. We'll know that you can also do it in Utah. [00:31:05.730] - Kim Tate That's fabulous tips. I think that's good. And I think that's what more people need to be willing to do to help with the overcrowding that we're experiencing in our national parks is you know, I appreciate you guys being such a great voice for that of recognizing, like you said, the heritage of these lands and then also, you know, getting beyond just the borders and the national park entrance and looking for the stories that are around those areas, too. [00:31:28.110] - Anne Howard Yeah, absolutely. And one thing another way to kind of beat the crowds. And I will shamelessly plug that. We we wrote a book about camping and but it's because we're really passionate about this way to experience the outdoors. And I think particularly when it comes to this sort of everyone checking the same camp or the national parks or trying to be at the historic lodge, they offer great opportunities to places to look into. Under canvas is the most known, but they've kind of built their model about finding the public lands and building their beautiful safari tents just outside the national park. [00:32:05.050] - Anne Howard So you can get that serenity again. They are more they are higher end or I'd say a higher price point, rather. But another really amazing company who's doing something similar at a more at a lower price point. Equally awesome is called Wunder Camp. And they have a series of camps that are around some of these national parks to where they're setting up tents and helping you kind of set up so that you could be they had various programing. So it could be you're doing the cooking or they're doing the cooking. [00:32:35.460] - Anne Howard But that's that's a great way to be outdoors. And, yeah, I think I just think life is such a cool way to get in touch with nature and have that serenity and meet the crowds and try something different. [00:32:46.650] - Tamara Gruber Yeah, I agree. Kim and I have both stated under canvas what can you've been outside a glacier and Yellowstone and I was outside of Mt. Rushmore. And I love that experience. I mean, I've never been drawn to camping as much because I love my bathrooms and things like that. So I really like this kind of in-between world of camping. And it it's just such a unique experience that even if you don't do it for the your entire trip, just to do it for a few nights and have that experience, it really it makes things stand out. [00:33:14.850] - Tamara Gruber It's very memorable, certainly much more memorable than, you know, staying at the Holiday Inn or whatever. So. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, we've talked a lot about some of the off the beaten path things. And I feel like one of the things that I know I struggle with and I think a lot of people do is letting go of something like, you know, everyone does this and you feel like this pressure like this. [00:33:38.580] - Tamara Gruber Well, I have to get that picture, too. How can I come back from this trip and not have a picture of Horseshoe Bend or, you know, like some of these things, like you feel this pressure of like, I must do all the things and I'm just wondering, like, what are some of the ones that people feel are so like, you have to do this. You have to do the narrows or, you know, something else that you would say, you know what? [00:33:58.950] - Tamara Gruber You really don't have to like you're not going to be missing anything. It's OK if you let that one go. Are there any that you think maybe are worth leaving off the list and to be able to fit in some of these other great experiences that you've talked about? [00:34:12.430] - Anne Howard You know, like, say, for example, we were we showed my mom part of the Grand Circle, actually, we did the complete grand circle with her over the course of two trips and then we wanted to pack and that a lot that day and went to Bryce. And I really need to do the full 18 miles. It's in it's an in and out, so it's not a loop. So you're making the choice to go all the way out that way and turn around like the best of us, really on the front end. [00:34:37.060] - Anne Howard So not just because it's not fabulous and you have all day go for it and you're going to it's going to get less crowded as you go. There is a benefit to completing, but that's one small example of like, you know, you don't need to do the full thing to feel like you've achieved the goal. And also knowing that when you hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, you need to hike back up. So be very aware of how that it's going to make your body feel because you probably haven't hike straight down and then straight up to that degree ever in your life and you are going to feel it. [00:35:08.980] - Anne Howard So not to say you can't do it, but know that you might just be really sore. And once whatever you do, it's hot and it's you need to be packing your own water and to plan for life pretty extreme. So it's it's more than a mile deep, but it's a mile like you've never experienced before switchbacks. So it's more than a mile. So. Yeah. So really weigh in your mind if you need to go to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and plan accordingly, because it's going to take you all day and you might with kids, you don't want to be stuck in the dark and not make it back in time. [00:35:41.230] - Anne Howard So take that with a real cautionary tale. [00:35:45.390] - Kim Tate Yeah, that's a great tip, so we will wrap up and just ask if there's any final tips that you think people should consider. I was just thinking, you know, when you were talking that maybe this is a perfect kind of trip to make sure that you look into maybe buying a annual national parks pass, but maybe also Utah State Parks pass as well. I don't know if they offer it, but might be kind of a good idea. But do you have any tips for families that are thinking of planning this Southwest Grand Circle Road trip? [00:36:12.120] - Anne Howard Yeah, mean, I think it's just so great the national parks pass with 80 dollars. And if it just inspires any other trip in your year, it's certainly worth buying because it encompasses like hundreds of sites that gets you in for free. And it's just 100 percent do that. And it spurs our park system, which I think is great. Utah State Park Pass is actually a really good tip. I can't tell you specifics on that, but probably worth it. [00:36:35.190] - Anne Howard And we are big fans of the book, two National Geographic Books, one that's called Secrets to the National Parks and another one that is the scenic Highways and Byways book, which covers the Southwest in great detail, much less the entire country. We reference that book every time we take a big drive. It's fantastic. And then actually we wrote two books, so Ultimate Journeys four two that's published by National Geographic as well. We we love the Southwest and we have various sections. [00:37:06.930] - Anne Howard We go in super detail on MOAB, which is the home of of Arches and Canyonlands, and then we have a different Southwest road trip. Sections of that could be a great resource for you and also supports us. And it's a really great book. And and then, as we said comfortably, while others are glad book, which has got a lot of SWS options to. [00:37:24.590] - Kim Tate Perfect. We'll definitely link to those in the show notes. Thanks, guys. [00:37:28.850] - Tamara Gruber So now for maybe an easier question, I don't know. But it's a question that we ask all of our guests, and that is, what do you wear when you travel? It's hard for you because you guys are always traveling. But so maybe we should focus it on the Southwest. What would you recommend? What is your go to gear when you're doing one of these kind of road trips? [00:37:47.000] - Anne Howard Oh, my God, you need good hat. You need some strong sun, some incredibly strong sun. You need that, like wide brim, full ball caps. Not going to cut it like you need a proper sun hat. And yeah, knowing that the temperature swing is massive from morning to night. So, yes, layers being key. And I'm not a close person really. It's hard for me. I like, you know, since I literally drive with my closet, I have all things with me at all times. [00:38:15.860] - Anne Howard So like I've become a terrible packer because like I always have everything with me. But yes, it's a hot place and, you know, hydrating and some coverage and all that is like more important than ever. [00:38:26.780] - Kim Tate Do you have any favorite, like, shoes that you guys like to wear that works well for various rock shopping and hiking? [00:38:35.090] - Anne Howard Yeah, I mean, these are a little heavier, but I think they look cool without looking. They don't. They are they're heavy duty. Then they look and they're kind of like Mike, even worse is like jeans and it still looks good. A solo makes a really great, sturdy hiking boot that's actually like not so clunky and aesthetically pleasing. So that's that's great. They have women's and men's. So in the market for any boots I'm probably will get well is the next round. [00:38:58.370] - Anne Howard And I have these leggings that I swear by because now I'm discovered leggings can have pockets and I really just want like carry all my stuff, like to put a phone in my pocket, a little bit of money as needed. And even your car keys like without having to feel like you're jingling, jangling and things are being knocked around. Is this brand called Kyodan? And they are so soft and they have deep pockets. So I kind of tend to wear those when I hike. [00:39:30.450] - Kim Tate Great, that sounds awesome, thanks so much for joining us and why don't you let our listeners know where they can find you guys online and follow along on your adventures? [00:39:39.090] - Anne Howard Yeah, thanks so much. Has been really, really nice to you podcast. So we are we are we I say we my husband Mike and I with our couples travel blog is called Honey Trek. So Trek, like a long walk around the world and we are all over the place, but it's at Honey Trek across Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, wherever you like to hang out. And Honey Trek is also sort of the hub of our our nine years on the road and glamping tips and road trip. [00:40:07.080] - Anne Howard We have a lot of road trip content in general, and it's also where you can get signed copies of our books for gifts or for your own collection. [00:40:15.600] - Tamara Gruber That's perfect. Thank you so much. We'll link to those in the show notes and you know where you're going to be after Mexico. [00:40:22.110] - Anne Howard We bought a one way ticket. I don't want to be in Mexico where the camper is parked in Northern California. So, yeah, I mean, the trajectory. Might we kind of follow the seasons to we are going to probably head more north. Check out the far reaches of Northern California, which I think most people don't get to. Maybe check out Lassen Volcanic National Park, and the sort of the wild north of California and maybe into Idaho. [00:40:47.070] - Tamara Gruber Good. Well, have safe travels and thank you again. [00:40:50.580] - Anne Howard Yeah. Thanks so much. [00:40:55.800] - Tamara Gruber We are back and thanks again for listening. And if you do have any questions for us or, you know, travel advice that you need, just a reminder to send in a message, a podcast@vacationmavens.com or talk to us on social media. [00:41:09.390] - Kim Tate And in the meantime, tune in in another two weeks, because I'm going to be sharing all about my Oregon to California coast road trip and sharing kind of some of the things we did along the way. So stay tuned for that. Can't wait.
Faced with unprecedented circumstances that threatened their work and their craft, Asolo Repertory Theatre took their stage to the streets in order to keep bringing theatre to the people of Florida. Learn about the story of Asolo Rep’s outdoor theatre ventures, the processes behind mounting theatre during Covid-19, and more in this episode of Five Minutes to Places! Episode Links: linktr.ee/5minstoplaces
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Není Prosecco jako Prosecco. Proto pro něj Italové vymysleli 6 kategorií. V tomhle díle vás všemi kategoriemi provedeme, skoro všechny ochutnáme a jako bonus vám poradíme, jak si vybrat to správné Prosecco.
Alex Joseph Grayson/@alexjgsings How does someone raised as a military kid end up on Broadway? Alex Joseph Grayson shares his journey with us of how he found theatre later in life but once he found it, he couldn't be stopped. Alex was always compelled to perform, putting on performances for family and friends anytime he found the chance, including random dance performances of "Thriller"! He was known as the class clown and had a vibrant personality, but that didn't transfer into a career in theatre for quite some time. He first lived in India during his senior year of high school with his family and then pursued a career in nursing. But, after taking one acting class at a community college, a spark was lit inside Alex's heart that couldn't be put out. He knew he was made for the stage. He pursued a degree in theatre and then began auditioning in New York where he booked a contract with Disney Cruise Lines. After several back and forths from NYC to ships, Alex shares with us of being in the right room at the right time and landing his Broadway Debut in A Bronx Tale. The journey hasn't always been easy, and Alex gives great insight into the decisions you must make for yourself as an actor. Do you want to travel? Do you need to put down roots? Where do you belong? All of these questions led Alex to where he is today. Alex Joseph Grayson can be seen soon on The Asolo stage in Sarasota, Fl in the musical Camelot! www.builtforthestage.com - Schedule your one week trial today! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Alex Joseph Grayson/@alexjgsings How does someone raised as a military kid end up on Broadway? Alex Joseph Grayson shares his journey with us of how he found theatre later in life but once he found it, he couldn't be stopped. Alex was always compelled to perform, putting on performances for family and friends anytime he found the chance, including random dance performances of "Thriller"! He was known as the class clown and had a vibrant personality, but that didn't transfer into a career in theatre for quite some time. He first lived in India during his senior year of high school with his family and then pursued a career in nursing. But, after taking one acting class at a community college, a spark was lit inside Alex's heart that couldn't be put out. He knew he was made for the stage. He pursued a degree in theatre and then began auditioning in New York where he booked a contract with Disney Cruise Lines. After several back and forths from NYC to ships, Alex shares with us of being in the right room at the right time and landing his Broadway Debut in A Bronx Tale. The journey hasn't always been easy, and Alex gives great insight into the decisions you must make for yourself as an actor. Do you want to travel? Do you need to put down roots? Where do you belong? All of these questions led Alex to where he is today. Alex Joseph Grayson can be seen soon on The Asolo stage in Sarasota, Fl in the musical Camelot! www.builtforthestage.com - Schedule your one week trial today! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
http://www.thelynneshow.com/Audio/Podcasts/Show_631_2_25_21_San_Osheroff_Cherry_Docs.mp3 2-25-21 Interview with Sam Osheroff, who has had a varied career as a studio artist, an actor, director and educator Listen to Sam describe his earliest experiences with theater, how, as an eight year old, he was struck by what seemed to him to be existence of “another world” on the stage. Hear him […]
The Giusti Asolo Extra Brut Prosecco is made from the Glera grape from Giusti estate vineyards in the Asolo DOCG region of Veneto about one hour north of Venice.Ermenegildo Giusti was born into a family from the region who had a history of making wine. As a young man, he left Italy and moved to Canada, and established a hugely successful construction business. In 20014 he moved back to Veneto and purchased a 5-acre vineyard. Today they have a beautiful facility with multiple vineyards.Most of the Prosecco region is designated as DOC wines. Italy has strict rules and regulations and a strong governing body to endorse them. While most of Prosecco is ranked DOC the Valdobbiadene region which is located in a hilly section near the center of Prosecco is designated as DOCG.Then there is the Asolo DOCG area that is located in the foothills of the Dolomites. While there has been wine produced there for a long time it came by its DOCG designation fairly recently.The DOC rating indicates strong rules and regulations pertaining to vineyard practices and winemaking. The G in DOCG stands for Guaranteed. It adds more stringent rules and oversite. It does not mean you are guaranteed to like the wine, only that the strictest quality standards were followed.Giusti Asolo Extra Brut Prosecco like all Prosecco is made with the Charmat Method. That is the process where the bubbles and incorporated into the wine. Champagne uses the Traditional Method which is a technique perfected in the 16th century. Charmat was invented in the Kate 19th century.A quick explanation of the Charmat Method is the grapes are fermented the first, more or less like all wine is fermented. Champagne Houses and Prosecco have their secrets that make their wines unique. With the Charmat Method the wine that has been fermented once is transferred to huge pressurized vats.A measured amount of yeast and sugar is added to the wine. The wine is then allowed to ferment a second time, but this time in a sealed vat that has been pressurized. In Champagne where the 2nd fermentation is performed in a completely different manner, the second fermentation lasts a year and a half and often longer.In Prosecco, the 2nd fermentation lasts from several weeks to several months. each producer uses their own methods for determining the proper amount of pressure coupled with the right length of time. Technology has knocked about 75% of the time it takes to put bubbles into wine.The Giusti Asolo Extra Brut Prosecco is a dry Sparkling wine. The three major classifications for dry Bubbly are Brut, then Extra Brut, and finally Nature which has no added sugar and is bone dry.If you think you know Prosecco and Prosecco DOSG there is a good chance you may not have tried Asolo DOCG Prosecco. Prosecco is the largest selling Sparkling wine in the world in terms of gallons, but Champagne is the largest in terms of dollars. Prosecco is far more affordable than Champagne. The alcohol content is a reasonable 11.5%.Giusti Asolo Extra Brut Prosecco Tasting NotesThe color is almost clear with just a hint of gold, with a flurry of energetic bubbles. The nose is crisp and clean, there is citrus, green apple, melon, a little minerality, and peach.This is not the flavor profile for the typical Prosecco, it is very dry with unique flavors. It tastes like a stew of Anjou pear, dried peach, lemon chiffon (not sweet), green apple, and lime.The mid-palate shows grapefruit, a slight creamy sensation, that salty, nutty "on lees" thing, and just a hint of candy spice. The acidity is very well controlled. It allows the flavors and texture to be bright and alive, but never bites or goes to far.The SummaryThe Giusti Asolo Extra Brut Prosecco is a Bubbly well worth tasting.It is easy to get into a rut with Prosecco, some of the ones readily available in the supermarket, while very tasting, can be indistinguishable from the next brand.I am not complaining,
The StoryThe Kirkland Asolo Prosecco DOCG Extra Dry is a $6.99 Costco import exclusive sourced from grapes farmed around the town of Asolo in the center of the Prosecco region in Veneto, Italy. In California, the wine grape growing regions comprise of unique territories known as AVA's, such as Paso Robles, Sonoma, Dry Creek, etc., these boundaries are all location-based there are no government mandates on which grapes can be grown, how they are to be farmed, and how the wine is produced. In Italy, the government uses DOC and DOCG to designate territories, but also provide strict regulations on many aspects of the grape growing and winemaking, with the DOCG (G stands for guaranteed) being the strictest level. These rules and regulations are put in place to ensure quality or with DOCG guarantee quality. That does not mean that a DOCG wine will taste better than a DOC wine, that is up to the winemaker and your personal preferences. But to my way of thinking the actual quality levels are up to the individual wineries because it is possible to make top-quality wine in all Italian levels of wine, DOCG, DOC, IGT, and table wine. Most of the Prosecco region is designated as DOC, there is a very hilly section in the middle of the area that is deemed to be the absolute best place for growing the Glera grape, in the case of the Kirkland bubbles in the hills around the town of Asolo. This hilly section is rated as DOCG. Now, here is a bit about how Prosecco is made, first most Prosecco in the value price range is non-vintage, meaning that several vintages are blended together to maintain a recognizable "House Style", which is very important for Prosecco brands to create an identity. The Glera grapes (the exclusive grape of Prosecco) are kind of an empty canvas, you almost never see a Glera still wine (non-Bubbly) because it does not make a particularly interesting still wine. The Glera grapes are fermented the 1st time, each Prosecco House has its own winemaking tricks at this stage and when they decide the wine is ready it is transferred to huge pressurized tanks. These tanks are large autoclaves and are basically huge versions of the autoclaves used to sterilize surgical equipment and tattoo needles. Sugar and yeast are added to the vats and a 2nd fermentation begins. CO2 is released as a by-product of fermentation, but since the sealed vat is under pressure the CO2 has nowhere to go but back into the wine. This second fermentation can last a few weeks or a few months, the longer time allows the CO2 to better acclimate itself to the wine and become fine Bubbly. The alcohol content with the Kirkland Prosecco is 11%.The Tasting NotesThe color is a platinum yellow with a decent supply of tiny bubbles. The nose is lemon, green apple, melon, and grapefruit, with a hint of ripe juicy peach and a floral edge. This Prosecco has balanced flavors, solid acidity, and a nice dash of minerality. It starts with tart lemon, peach, Bosc pear, and melon. The mid-palate offers a juicy apple, a salty sensation, and not sweet lemon hard candy. The acidity is very persistent, it is not quite a lip-smacking acidity, but it is part of the flavor profile. The finish is strong and long.The Summary * This is an extremely solid Prosecco at an amazing price, $6.99. * There are only so many Prosecco producers from the Asolo region, with a little bit of sleuthing you can probably figure out who made it, but I would imagine all the producers from this area are first rate. * Keep the Kirkland Prosecco in mind for the Holiday party season, it is a steal at less than $7. * This is an extra-dry Bubbly which means slightly sweet, but remember solid acidity balances the sweetness, so the sensation is more nectar sweet than sugar sweet.
Caterina Corner lived a life that was composed of a mixture of adventure, power, and tragedy. The daughter of a Venetian patrician and merchant, she was married to the king of Cyprus while barely a teenager. Within two years of voyaging to her new home in 1472, she became a mother, a widow, and the ruler of Cyprus, over which she reigned until she was dethroned by her Venetian benefactors in 1489. In Daughter of Venice: Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance (Yale University Press, 2015), Holly Hurlburt describes the life and artistic legacy of this remarkable woman. As she explains, much of our image of her is shaped by the portraits and other artwork of her, both from her reign and afterward. In combination with the extant documentary record, they reveal how Caterina maintained and projected her authority as queen in a tumultuous time while facing challenges from several Mediterranean powers. Ever after her removal to a community in northern Venice, she maintained her influence and dignity as the lady of Asolo, both as a noble landowner and as a Renaissance patron. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Caterina Corner lived a life that was composed of a mixture of adventure, power, and tragedy. The daughter of a Venetian patrician and merchant, she was married to the king of Cyprus while barely a teenager. Within two years of voyaging to her new home in 1472, she became a mother, a widow, and the ruler of Cyprus, over which she reigned until she was dethroned by her Venetian benefactors in 1489. In Daughter of Venice: Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance (Yale University Press, 2015), Holly Hurlburt describes the life and artistic legacy of this remarkable woman. As she explains, much of our image of her is shaped by the portraits and other artwork of her, both from her reign and afterward. In combination with the extant documentary record, they reveal how Caterina maintained and projected her authority as queen in a tumultuous time while facing challenges from several Mediterranean powers. Ever after her removal to a community in northern Venice, she maintained her influence and dignity as the lady of Asolo, both as a noble landowner and as a Renaissance patron. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Giacomo Talamini is the CEO of the Production Company, Hive Division based in Asolo, Italy. The main focus of Hive Division is new cinematic trends. He wrote, directed and edited the feature film, Philanthropy. This lead to massive success with more than 3 million views online. In the Podcast he speaks to us about the launch their new project, Panopticon VR and his upcoming Rainbow 6 feature film. Check out Hive Division profile: https://www.movidiam.com/hivedivision
The first week of Season 6 is over and the FLoB train continues to run on schedule! Today we discuss some other not-as-awesome-as-Pluto news that cropped up during the break about our good friends at the TSA. Then, the return of Hiking Tips with Kurtjmac, where I can't remember any of the outdoor brands I wish to recommend! (p.s. My new hiking boots are from Asolo. All I could remember was Keen, which are also good.) We've currently raised $296.00 of our $60,000 Child's Play Charity fundraiser goal, so keep donating at http://farlandsorbust.com!This is an audio-only version of Far Lands or Bust #494 on YouTube: http://youtu.be/8pcjWzyZbCcThis series is presented commercial-free thanks to support from fans at Patreon: http://patreon.com/kurtjmacIntroduction provided by Phedran: http://phedran.comMusic: "Go Cart" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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