If you’re a regular reader of my blog you’ll know that my husband is Italian and we visit Italy often so this may be a bit biased! However, If you’ve been to Italy then no doubt you’ll be nodding in agreement with these reasons to visit. And if you haven’t,…
Updated August 2024 The Aeolian Islands (or Eolie, as the Italians call them) are a volcanic group of islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea, which is north of Sicily. They are named after the demigod of the winds, Aeolus. They are not that easy to get to but oh so worth…
I can’t remember the first time I saw a picture of the trulli in Alberobello in Puglia but I’m sure I didn’t even know it was in Italy because they seem so mythical. To me, they look like Hobbit houses, if the hobbits from the shire had cousins in another…
If I said ‘Polignano a Mare’ I’m sure your response would be ‘Polig a what now’? I’d not heard of it either but luckily I’m married to an Italian and well, he just knows these things. And you need to learn this town’s name fast because JUST LOOK AT THIS…
