I am sure 24 in one place do not offer enough time to be a proper judge of the place’s culinary traditions and places to visit, yet I feel compelled to write about our quick fire visit to the stunning Sassi di Matera. We nearly didn’t make it. The day before myself and@bmcboy came off a scooter and badly bruised knee (me) and elbow (him), with nasty tarmac abrasions. Yet nothing stops me from visiting something I had been wanting…
Rivisondoli in the morning sun Undiscovered Italy? While our Italian summer holidays are spent in seaside Cilento, our winter breaks (mostly Christmas) are spent in another beautiful and fascinating Italian region, Abruzzo. Situated at the southern end of Central Italy, it touches the Adriatic Sea to the East and is around 1.5 hours’ drive from Napoli and Rome. Allegedly (in ‘Miracle in Castel di Sangro’), the 1996 Frommer’s Guide to Italy described as it as “one of the poorest and least…
Note: this post is over 5 years old On a mild December evening my entire family congregated for a special occasion, a 70th birthday party. Having planned this evening for a while, the choice of restaurant sort of surprised me. Around 30 minutes drive from our Napoli home, in the middle of nowhere in the (not particularly attractive) outskirts east of the city. My first thought was – what are we doing here? And, as we walked out of the…