{"id":1213,"date":"2023-09-05T14:16:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T12:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rivoniabb.co.za\/blog\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2023-11-01T09:49:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T07:49:25","slug":"pasta-with-our-italian-friends-filippo-brandolini-and-ilaria-bandini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rivoniabb.co.za\/blog\/pasta-with-our-italian-friends-filippo-brandolini-and-ilaria-bandini\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasta with our Italian Friends, Filippo Brandolini and Ilaria Bandini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">22 years ago two young Italian guests.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Filippo Brandolini and Ilaria Bandini,<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">arrived at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rivoniabb.co.za\/\">Rivonia Bed and Breakfast<\/a> as our lodge was originally called.\u00a0 Then came the night of fine dining! Off Gerard and Ilaria went shopping for the special ingredients and the young couple made us pasta most heavenly. We swore we would travel to the ends of the earth to partake of some more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Fast forward a few years. Gerard and I did travel, but not to the ends of the earth, but to Ravenna, to visit Filippo and Ilaria.\u00a0 It was 2004 and they had two young sons by that time.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1214\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1214\" style=\"width: 487px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1214 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rivoniabb.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Picture1.png\" alt=\"Gerard and Jill Marais, owners of Rivonia Premier Lodge, and Ilaria and her 2 young sons\" width=\"487\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rivoniabb.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Picture1.png 487w, https:\/\/www.rivoniabb.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Picture1-300x220.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gerard and Jill Marais, owners of Rivonia Premier Lodge, and Ilaria and her 2 young sons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then, 19 years went by and, in July 2023, we received an\u00a0 an email from Ilaria and Filippo :<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>We were guests in your Lodge 22 years ago.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>We became friends with the owners, Jill and Gerard Marais, who also visited our city in Italy (see the above picture, taken in front of the famous San Vitale \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>It would be a great pleasure for us to meet them again and introduce them to our third son who they didn\u2019t meet (he was born 6 years later).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Now we are planning to come back to South Africa with our three sons and so we would like to stay by your Lodge.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>And so, after 22 years, began another pasta adventure.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed Pasta with our Italian Friends, Filippo Brandolini and Ilaria Bandini.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1215 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rivoniabb.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Picture2-225x300.png\" alt=\"Pasta with our Italian Friends\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rivoniabb.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Picture2-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.rivoniabb.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Picture2-207x275.png 207w, https:\/\/www.rivoniabb.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Picture2.png 433w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1216 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rivoniabb.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Picture3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Pasta with our Italian Friends\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rivoniabb.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Picture3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rivoniabb.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Picture3-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.rivoniabb.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Picture3.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1217 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rivoniabb.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Picture4-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pasta with our Italian Friends\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rivoniabb.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Picture4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rivoniabb.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Picture4.jpg 474w, https:\/\/www.rivoniabb.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Picture4-207x275.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1218 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rivoniabb.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Picture5-300x181.png\" alt=\"Pasta with our Italian Friends\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rivoniabb.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Picture5-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rivoniabb.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Picture5.png 380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The strozzapreti\u00a0\u2018kill the priest, <em><strong>pasta<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0was delicious, unusual, with an interesting history.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1219\" style=\"width: 1140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1219\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rivoniabb.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Picture6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" 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The 2 taller young men are the same little boys in the pram whom we had pushed around in Ravenna 19 years ago.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Such is the interesting life of a guest house owner!\u00a0 Exceptional people cross your path from all over the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22 years ago two young Italian guests. 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