I really love staying in B&Bs. Much more so than hotels and even more than (gasp!) AirBnB rentals. Why? Because it’s the people you meet there (owners and other guests)…
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I’ve been dreaming of beaches lately… It’s the middle of winter here in Sydney. I have a cold, I’m sick of the weather and there is no trip to Italy…
I don’t know about you, but sometimes it takes me a ridiculous amount of time and effort to find a good place to stay. Finding the right town, the right…
The Royal Palace at Caserta (Reggia di Caserta) had been on my list for a while. Just a short journey north of Naples, yet I’d never managed to get there….
Those Phoenicians were a clever bunch. One of their inventions was an ingenious way to fish on a large-ish scale from land, no matter what the weather, thereby avoiding hours…
It’s funny the things that inspire you to visit a town. I’m often drawn by the strange and the strangely religious. I’d been reading about Bari, a port town in…
I’ve been dreaming of Sicily a lot lately so today we’re taking a trip to one of my favourite places – the pretty town of Marzamemi in south-eastern Sicily. If…
Alberobello is a place worth going out of your way for. It’s famous for the trulli – round houses with conical roofs that when seen en masse, look just like…
Why I think Trani is perfect It’s a little seafront town on the Pulglian coast in Southern Italy. In my eyes it’s a perfect place – situated right on the…
This is the photo that lured me to Polignano a Mare. Tucked into those cliffs is a restaurant called Grotta Palazzese (you can just see it towards the right hand…
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