Take a Bow, Venezia
... we wander along almost eerily quiet canals to the southern part of the Dorsoduro and a small restaurant specialising in Friulian and Sardinian fare in which we have booked a table for two - in the wine cellar. We eat prosciutto and mushrooms and roasted pig and tiramisù. We drink lots of Barone Rosso wine and joke with the owners that it's all marvellous but "troppo, troppo" (too much). Romantic? It is ridiculously so. ...