Reality Check in the Mountains

By James Suckling
Posted: Friday, June 30, 2006

I was sitting today at lunchtime in the mountains overlooking the town of Merano in Italy’s Alto Adige and eating some smoked ham and drinking a glass of crisp white wine. And I began to think about.....

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