We’ve just come back from a wonderful long weekend in Florence – a city which truly has my heart. We arrived on Thursday evening and stayed at the absolutely stunning Four Seasons. The trip was a birthday present from my husband. It’s beginning to become a bit of a tradition as…
I’ve often heard people say that they were ‘blown away’ by a city or country or that they fell utterly in love with somewhere and I’d never quite understood it because I’d never experienced it myself. Until now. I’m lucky to have travelled quite a bit and been to many…
Post updated in July 2022 Gallipoli is a small seaside town in Puglia, in the province of Salento, and I highly recommend it for a long weekend break or as part of a wider tour of Puglia. Three days is enough to explore Gallipoli but if you want a longer…
We’ve been to Palermo, in Sicily, once before – for one night only – on our way back from Favignana, an island in Sicily. We’d been looking to book a long weekend away in Italy for a while and it was whilst watching Ainsley Harriot’s Street Food Palermo episode that…
