{Via col Vento | Italian Coffee and Wine Bar}

Wishing it would be SPRING... even though the weather is great at the moment. Than we can sit again on the terrace at our authentic Italian Coffee and Wine Bar: Via col Vento. This gem is located in the historic down town of Dublin, Georgia/USA. Via col Vento means: Gone with the Wind...

Via col Vento | Gone With The Wind

The entrance door to Via col Vento

The outside terrace for sunny days, which we have plenty of in Dublin, Georgia!

Lady Chef Maria Runggaldier setting up for a reception...

Seating area inside Via col Vento 

Wine and Tappas 

 

The interior is done in authentic Italian style

The Owner: Heinz Krassnig, to the right...

 

Quite a selection of delicious Italian foods... 

Check the link below post for their menu...

Great desserts...

All are made from scratch by Lady Chef Maria Runggaldier!

Looking behind the bar... 

Yes, this Italian Coffee and Wine Bar makes me feel like being back in Cornuda, TV - Italy

Our apartment was above Coffee Bar: Belvedere...

Pieter is happy with his generous Cappuccino and 'Nutcracker' dessert with hazelnuts.

Too bad I'm diabetes type II and cannot have the desserts...

Still, life is good! We got our authentic Italian Ristorante da Maria and Italian Coffee and Wine Bar: Via col Vento!

That cures any feeling of homesickness for Italy.

Wish you could come and sample Maria's delicious food; all made fresh from scratch, using high quality ingredients. 

Related links:

Dublin Farm Come Home to the Country | Heinz & Maria's B & B

Ristorante da  Maria | Lady Chef Maria's authentic Italian restaurant

{Dutch Summer Temperatures in Georgia for January}

Contrary to 2011, when we had SNOW, we do have a very mild week of January. That could be considered a Dutch summer with our temperatures at present! For seeing our home and garden in the snow, view my previous post; links are below.

This image showing 71.6ºF or 22ºC, I captured shortly before noon as you can see to the right...

Even at 6:03 PM or 18:03 it is still 22ºC...

Wow, today was even WARMER than predicted. We just got back from Atlanta and at 5:08 PM or 17:08 it is still 24ºC or 75.2ºF

High was 26ºC or 78.8ºF

Anyone wanting to swap places with us?

Related links:
{Our Garden White & Icy Today as Snowstorm Slams South} previous post by me from 2011
{Our Home in the SNOW -- January 2002} previous post by me

{My Angel Sister & Mariette's Back to Basics Explained}

January 11, marks the date that my Angel Sister Mariet was still born... She would have been my older sister and my entire life I've wondered how she would have been like. In an earlier post of November 23, 2010, I did write about her Birthday and I will repeat it here:

By the end of the year I was walking on crutches...

On January 9 of this year (2010) I was in the hospital being almost totally paralyzed with very high fever that they couldn't knock down at first. 

It was on January 11, that I cried in my hospital bed; on the birthday of my still born sister 'Mariet' who would have been almost 13 months older than I am. 

I told her that I was NOT yet ready to see her in heaven...

After four days in the hospital they put me on Prednisone and the pain went away.

Again I could MOVE! What a joy.
Being diagnosed with a very rare auto immune disease, I was now on the mend!
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For my sister Mariet, trying to live for her as well, I've added 'TE' behind my name.
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That's the story behind my Zen Cart powered on line boutique: Mariette's Back to Basics. 

Anyway, most people here in the US had difficulties pronouncing Mariet, so this works well.
They have chewed it out like Muwrit or Muwreet... A good example is: 1993 February 8 — Ma Hawkins Group in Dublin, Georgia ←click link for YouTube video

A name is very special and I'm proud for adding something for an Angel I Know By Name; MY SISTER

Related link:
{# 148 and my blog is 1 year old today!} | previous post about my sister