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Italy

Fico Eataly World, Bologna Italy
Eataly – the world of italian food
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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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Peace amongst the Pine Trees
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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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Acetaia Malpighi, Balsamic Vinegar Barrels
Modena -Aged to perfection
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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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Parma Palio Drummers
The Palio in Parma, Pasta and Pomodoro
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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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Montova San Giorgio Caste
Montova (Mantua) an unexpected pleasure
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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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Roman Verona – The ancient city of treasures
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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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Soave and Sophisticated (the wine not us!)
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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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Vicenza, Palladian City of Splendour
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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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Bassano del Grappa and the famous spirit
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Hugging the banks of the river Brenta, the charming city of Bassano del Grappa in Northern Italy has more than just Grappa to thank for its popularity. On the flat…

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Belluno and Citadella, Small towns with big hearts
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Belluno Belluno is a town we planned to visit on our way to Bassano Del Grappa (the home of Grappa) for a look around and the perfect lunch stop. Once…

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