Last summer I was lucky enough to take an amazing trip to Venice and a number of regions in Slovenia. I always love planning these trips, but this one brought special joy because I was really, really excited to stay on the border of northern Italy and Slovenia, an area called Gorica in Slovenia and Gorizia in Italy. There were a number of reasons I wanted to visit – it’s a great wine region, Hisa Franko had a tasting menu I was dying to try and the house was apparently where Hemingway wrote A Farewell to Arms, and this was an important area during World War I, which I’m kind of obsessed with (not sure if you’ve ever heard anyone describe to you their “favorite war” but if not, we probably haven’t met). To summarize, I wanted to visit Gorica because I’m a nerd even when vacationing.
