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Imagine Tuscany and the mind conjures up beautiful landscapes, large country villas and big old farmhouses brimming with people and food, miles of olive trees and avenues of cypresses. This…
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The night before heading to Florence was spent at a small aire in Monghidoro in the hills some way north of the city, waking to a chilly start with low…
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Imagine an out of town shopping centre, packed full of stores, leading out left and right offering every imaginable fashion item you could want. Well Eataly is like that but…
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Over the last few days we’ve toured the Tuscan countryside discovering sublime scenery and extraordinary towns along the way and we’ll be posting about these over the next few days.…
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A city of surprising architecture, food, performance cars and Opera singers, as the birth place of the late great Luciano Pavarotti, Modena also sits at the heart of the Parmigiano…
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The Unesco city of gastronomy was next on our radar, the home of Prosciutto di Parma and Parmigiano Reggiano in the heart of Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region – Parma. Two of…
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I have to say I knew nothing about Montova until the other day. It’s a reasonably sized town sat between Verona and Parma and is approached through the wetlands and…
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Like the Dolomites and Florence, Verona was always on our list of must see locations, so we were both looking forward to exploring the city and we weren’t to be…
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Our journey to Soave at the foot of the Monti Lessini mountains left us in no doubt at all that once again on this trip we were entering ‘wine country’,…
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Venetian splendour and Palladian architecture put on their best show for us as we drove into the UNESCO world heritage city of Vicenza in Northern Italy. Bathed in the late…
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