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Glamping
We arrived in Perugia by train and then hopped on a bus to our campsite. Well, more glamp-site: we stayed in a tent, but there were showers, a kitchen, WifFi and I was in the pool before you could say...
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Olives & Beaches
Fried things often taste tastier. Ascoli Piceno in Marche is famous for making ripe olives even more delicious by breading them and sticking them in a hot pan with even more olive oil. ‘Olive Ascolane’...
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Ploughman’s d’Italia
Reggio Emilia is packed with beautiful squares, churches and cheese. It’s one of the fantastic little towns on Via Emilia – the road which the whole region is named after. Reggio invented the Italian...
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Milan
Imagine an Italian city – medieval towers and Roman amphitheaters and renaissance frescoed facades in a state of permanent picturesque decay. You’ve probably heard of Milan. You’re not imagining Milan....
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Cinque Terre
It’s cold out. So I thought I’d do a throwback post to the spring and warm us all up… The Italian Riviera should do the trick. The five villages that give the Cinque Terre it’s name are carved into...
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Happy New Year!
So 2013 is over. Our adventuring last year took us from Palermo to Pisa to Parma and Turin. What? You think everywhere in Italy begins with P? Piedmont. That would have been better. Verona just before...
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Bologna Revisited
Towards the end of last year we ended up planting ourselves in Bologna for a couple months and I thought it might be a good idea to share a few of our favourite spots in town for birra. Here my...
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Snow
Before our trip to the Italian Alps I though that there was no such thing as a ‘beginner’ ski resort: anyone can go down a steep run, you just have to go a bit slower if it’s your first time. It turns...
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1 Year Later
On the 6th May 2013 I drank my first craft beer in Italy. In the year that’s followed we’ve spent time travelling the length and breadth of this incredible country, with a few stop-offs back home and a...
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Ice and Eskimos
I met Max and Molly two weeks ago at their Italian restaurant in Tunbridge Wells about an hour south of London. It didn’t take us long to get talking about their favourite brewery, La Cotta, set on a...
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