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Nettuno’s Borgo Pizzeria was different from any other pizzeria I’d ever known. Staring in my shirt sleeves and shorts through the window as they decorated the interior and prepped the kitchen and painted the walls, I was reminded of the greatest pizzeria of all, and how I spent one of the most memorable summers of my life eating there: Pizza to go, pizza for the terrace on the cobblestone, pizza for a chair by the beach, and pizza to devour while sitting on the edge of its medieval entrance, too excited to wait for it to properly cool.

Article contentĪ few weeks ago, a pizza place - a restaurant with a wood burning oven - opened at the top of our street. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Summer is a love letter to lots of things - AM cottage radios cycling fast past the lake Life’s Been Good by Joe Walsh yucky shorts worn too long the absence of socks the stars and the moon and some beer on a patio long difficult novels you’ve pretended to read during other summers, but “this summer will be different!” an old drive-in they haven’t torn down yet mini-golf and broad hats new drugs someone gives you and why not, you’re on holiday in Ibiza! Archie comics lost sunglasses digital guilt and analogue nostalgia visiting uncles soccer tournaments and very nearly catching a baseball at a Jays game mediocre ideas warmed by the sun good ideas that come to you after a long mid-afternoon nap the smell of grass and the taste of lake water Court and Spark on cassette the Saturday paper read seven times front to back a single glowing cabin lamp creaking wood and croaking frogs tire dirt a symphony of winged insects stuff your dad bought 50 years ago for the outdoors and naked bums, seen when you least expect to see them.

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Vintage made in italy leaning tower of pizza light green bottle