“Dad stops skiing when we children learn to do it, he has too much to do. In the mountains we go with mum, to St. Moritz to grandfather Guido Venosta, or to La Salle to Giorgio Bocca, the great journalist, who as a good Cuneo man introduced me to bagna cauda. We are also accompanied by cousins Benedetta and Elisabetta, escorted by the eternal ‘young ladies’. In the Grisons mountains, the ski instructors make us die laughing by telling us to ‘piecare le finocchia’. (…)” (p. 97).
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