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….
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Category Archives: Southern Italy
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…
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…
Hands up who remembers Pythagorus? Pythagorus and his theorem are one of the only things I remember from high school maths, apart from Mrs Moffatt, the slightly terrifying woman who…
The pretty Gargano coast on the northern end of Puglia promised an abundance of secluded beaches, or so said the brochure for the boat trip we’d planned to take (but…
I must be the only person alive who doesn’t love Positano. Call me a freak, but Postiano’s supposed charms have not revealed themselves to me, and I just don’t understand…
It took me a long time to get to the Amalfi Coast (I’d made five visits to Italy before I made it there), and what seems like an equal amount…
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