Abruzzo

Hardware shop, bagpipe and lovely lunch

[ Nov.2017 ] We went to a town called Guardiagrele which is inland of Abruzzo in the middle of Italy. This town has been famous for its metalworks since medieval times, so we went in…

Abruzzo

To Chieti on the hill

[ Nov. 2017 ] On the second day of our visit to Abruzzo in the middle of Italy, we went to a town called Chieti which is about 13 km inland from Pescara. Our visit…

Abruzzo

Stayed in a B&B and had great seafood

[ Nov.2017 ] We stayed in a B&B called Maison Fleurie in Pescara, a seaside town in Abruzzo in the middle of Italy. B&B’s in England are usually bigger but ordinary residential houses where the…

Lombardy

Meat dish in Solferino

[ Oct.2017 ] I saw a weird photo of a wall with many skulls on a website and found out that it was in a town called Solferino which is not too far from Milan…

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…