Restaurants

Dizzying beauty

[Nov. 2024] On a sunny public holiday, we felt like going out for a bit, so we went to Trezzo sull’Adda, which is not far from our home in northern Italy. It’s a town on…

Food

Castiglione Olona and the Alpini

[Mar. 2025] This winter in Northern Italy was full of rainy days, which made me gloomy. We had just moved from gloomy England to Italy, where everyone think it has bright sunshine. So, on occasional…

Hotels

Overnight stay near Mantua

[June 2024] Mantua, a historic town in Lombardy, northern Italy, is within a day trip distance from where we live, but this time we stayed overnight in the suburbs. We actually wanted to stay in…

Transports

Something we learned in Como (part 1)

[April 2023] On this Easter Sunday when we were staying in northern Italy, we had no plans at all, but wanted to go somewhere that we could have a good meal nearby, and in the…