I spent a month in August 2022 in Castell'Azzara, Southern Tuscany. I worked as a volunteer at ASHA, the Alchemy School of Healing Arts, just 2km outside the town centre. Castell'Azzara is a 'mountain' town perched on the edge...
The shady arcades, or portici, of the Italian city of Bologna came as a welcome relief, first from the torrid sun and then, when I returned to the city four weeks later, the torrential rain....
South meets North in Palermo. The capital of Sicily vibrates to a cacophony of sounds, colour and smells. The city's architecture dates back to the Arabs and the Normans, as wave after wave of...
Brothers Matteo and Salvatore Aloe started Berberè Pizzeria in the Italian city of Bologna in 2010. Now leading Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera has chosen them as Italy's No 1 pizza to taste. And you don't...
If I were a grape variety, I'd be a Nebbiolo: I'm rampant, I need patience & I'm slow to mature ...
My idea of paradise is to watch the sun rise up from the sea into a clear blue sky in the early morning and then to see it sink below the horizon at the end...
Adolfo Bella and his American wife Lucille opened Da Adolfo restaurant 50 years ago on a small beach along the Amalfi coast from Positano. After being a prisoner of war in Crete during the Second World...