Piedmont

To Piedmont for wine

[ Sept.2017 ] Piedmont in Italy is not only beautiful with gently sloping hills, but also famous for its wine. We went there to buy some bottles some years ago from Milan just for a…

Lombardy

Strictly local foods

[ June 2017 ] In the weekend in June when the temperature went up to 35 degrees, we had an excursion from Milan to Monte Isola, an island on Lake Iseo in Italy. It took…

Italy

“I told you” restaurant

[ May 2017 ] On the day when we got very hungry after working hard for the Photomarathon in Rome in Italy, we searched on the internet for a good restaurant serving the great foods…

Italy

Dishes of Rome

We got up very early again, this time to go to Rome. This was the first time I had been to Fiumicino Airport in Rome in 35 years, though we went through there for transit…

Venice

The restaurants before and after the opera

[ Apr.2017 ] On the day we saw an opera at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy, before the opera started at 3:30 pm, we had lunch. We saw a restaurant just in front of…

Venice

Revisiting the restaurant in Murano

[ Mar.2017 ] We took the Frecciarossa, the fast train, from the Central Station in Milan to Venice. The last time we were in Venice was one and a half years ago. This time we…

Italy

Nice restaurant in the suburbs of mysterious Pomponesco

[ Feb.2017 ] We went to Pomponesco in the north of Italy which belongs to the association of “The most beautiful villages in Italy”. In our experience, the villages of this association are really beautiful, including Asolo,…