82 THROUGH THE DOLOMITES Tai (Hotels— Hotel Cadore or Pensione Inglese, and Albergo Venezia.) We now reached Tai. When we first knew this place some years ago it was a good specimen of an old Cadore village. Its houses, like those we had seen by the bank of the Piave at Perarolo, were of wood with stone founda tions, and having their fronts loaded by lines of deep wooden balconies, and their roofs 'slated' with wood. Some of these still exist, but the village is* fast assuming a modern
us examining the Tai houses, said : ' Adesso che gli uomini vanno a spasso in America il paese si rialza ' (Now that the men go a walk to America the village is reviving). She told us how quite a number of young men had gone from Tai to the New World, and how all had made money, and had come home to buy bits of property, and build themselves new houses. Her own husband was in America and had been successful, and was shortly returning to Tai. The old inn has been transformed into a modem hotel, and a new