Obviously, one of the reasons you visit Italy is to eat amazing food! Alas, it is not always all pizza and pasta… (the Italian equivalent of sunshine and rainbows) The pasta section in any supermarket is always huge with amazing variety compared to supermarkets we’re used to. We even found tennis racquet pasta! Not that… Read More Other Italian food

Sicilian ancestry (on my mother’s side) lured us to visit the rural north-east of the island. This would be my fourth time going to see the tiny village of Irianni to see the house that Mum used to live in! We based ourselves in a small town on the north coast, not far from an… Read More The Motherland

Next stop on our journey south was the town of Tropea. A very pretty beach side town, with the main old town perched up the top of the cliff. It was a fair bit busier than where we’d been in the Cilento Coast, with the main viewpoint was quite popular with tourists from all over… Read More Tropea (AKA onion town)

From Naples, we headed south to Sicily with a couple of stops along the way. The Cilento Coast was the first as we’d heard it was a more chilled version of the Amalfi Coast and given we’d just hired a car for this journey we were looking for less busy places. Italian driving can be… Read More Cilento Coast

During our class, we obviously needed to not just eat the pizza but make the pizza as well. You know, like that old movie quote: “In this country, you gotta make the pizza first. Then when you get the pizza, you get the power. Then when you get the power, you get to eat the… Read More Pizza making in Naples

After the thefts we needed to be cheered up! So, once we’d been to the Police Station to report the cash taken from our luggage (so we could claim it on insurance, we didn’t expect anything to actually be done about it), we did what anyone would do in Naples and ate pizza 🍕🍕🍕 Breakfast… Read More Drowning our sorrows (Italian style)

In Italy, we decided to try something different and go to the river overlooking Mount Blanc for a day trip. There, you can go whitewater rafting, and since it was a warm day, the water would hopefully not be as freezing. While there was a longer session for adults, we decided to stick together and… Read More Whitewater Rafting (by Z)