Just a few days after installing myself in Monopoli, my home base for in Puglia for the next month, we attended a cooking class organised by Rita at her Cucina in Masseria. Unlike a typical cooking class for an evening,…
Nuns’ Breasts and Antique Ovens of Altamura
Sometimes it’s good to head into the unknown without a plan. The only thing that was certain was the accommodation for the next two nights and that it might be nice to stop in Altamura, renowned for its bread. Indeed,…
Chilling in Cilento with Water Buffalos
As everybody surely knows, Campania is the home of mozzarella, or more specifically mozzarella di bufala, which is made of the milk of water buffalos. There aren’t so many lakes in the region, and I don’t think the water these…
Abundance of the Lambs
The mountains around our agriturismo, which had been covered in clouds the afternoon before, revealed themselves on a cloudless morning. After exercises in the beautiful garden (the local kitten looked very perplexed by our activity), we backtracked to Assergi and…
The Grandest Gran Sasso d’Italia
After a hearty breakfast of eggs and a tour of the village with some historical education from our host, we set out on the highway towards L’Aquila, a town that was recently completely destroyed by earthquakes. Never have I seen…
Rome – Veni, Vidi, Arrivederci (but not for a long time)
I suppose there aren’t very many pictures from Rome that I could possibly post that somebody else hasn’t posted somewhere else already. It’s an incredible city, where one really feels the weight of history… but it’s also a city that…