"Pistachio is from late Middle ENGLISH pistace, from Old French, superseded in the 16th century by forms from Italian pistacchio, via Latin from Greek πιστάκιον pistákion, and from Middle Persian pistakē.[5]"
What a loving tribute to your grandmother! Such glorious architecture, landscapes, so very different from the bland area where I reside. Better watch out! One day I’ll have Scottie from the Starship Enterprise beam me over for a tag along! Switzerland 🇨🇭(linguistics too) is unimaginably cool! 😘
A solid Saturday spent exploring medieval castles. Stunning architecture. Reminds me of the walled cities in Germany, Rothenberg & Heidelberg. A fitting tribute to your Grandmother.
Bellisimo Ticino. A child of Italian parentage raised in a Swiss family. Thank you for this shared loving tribute. I hope you have time to see Lake Lugano.
I loved this Saturday castle adventure taken with the spirit of your Grandma! Really beautiful photos! All of them! I liked the long shadows from the stairs. There were two selfies 🙂📷 Thank you for taking us along!
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"Pistachio is from late Middle ENGLISH pistace, from Old French, superseded in the 16th century by forms from Italian pistacchio, via Latin from Greek πιστάκιον pistákion, and from Middle Persian pistakē.[5]"
I knew I should have checked. So, whoever knew this without looking it up is off the hook. Thanks Martin. I can always count on you.
:-) I've sent you a picture about this on the blue channel you might find interesting
Love it. Thanks!
What a loving tribute to your grandmother! Such glorious architecture, landscapes, so very different from the bland area where I reside. Better watch out! One day I’ll have Scottie from the Starship Enterprise beam me over for a tag along! Switzerland 🇨🇭(linguistics too) is unimaginably cool! 😘
Thank you Judith. Would love to have you tag along.
A solid Saturday spent exploring medieval castles. Stunning architecture. Reminds me of the walled cities in Germany, Rothenberg & Heidelberg. A fitting tribute to your Grandmother.
Thank you Sharon. I love castles and walled towns/cities. My favorite is still Visby. I might write about it some day.
Bellisimo Ticino. A child of Italian parentage raised in a Swiss family. Thank you for this shared loving tribute. I hope you have time to see Lake Lugano.
Grazie mille!
I didn't go down to Lugano on this occasion, but check out https://evelyne.substack.com/p/route-7-lugano-paradiso-to-morcote. I had great views of Lake Lugano on that one. There's also a YouTube video linked in there somewhere.
I loved this Saturday castle adventure taken with the spirit of your Grandma! Really beautiful photos! All of them! I liked the long shadows from the stairs. There were two selfies 🙂📷 Thank you for taking us along!
Thanks Rena. And well done for spotting the second selfie.
Oh and those stairs ... they didn't go high up and I wouldn't have fallen far, but I hated them.