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always kept in touch with Sergio Feller an IPA member in Merano who
very kindly met us at Verona airport with his son and took us to our
hotel at the resort.
On the Wednesday evening Sergio and the President of IPA Merano Senor
Pistore Luciano went to the hotel for a small, but surprise, reception. I was
presented with a bottle of the local wine, highly recommended, and a joint of
spec (bacon).
Alison and I were invited to join the Branch for an evening meal on the
Thursday at a fish restaurant in town.
A very memorable evening, a typical IPA social with about 60 of their
members and wives many of whom were remembered from the previous
visits. We made our way through I think six courses all of different fish
dishes. These were topped with a final very welcome course of sorbet.
It was great to rekindle the contact with the Merano branch and it might just
be that next years’ Snow Week could return to Merano.
Merano is a superb resort with good quality hotels at reasonable prices and
ski slopes to suit all standards from ski school to the most testing of Black
Runs.
Ray Sutton
11 Region, Sussex
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POLICE WORLD
Vol 61 No. 2, 2016
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