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Stromboli’s best beach of black volcanic sand Eric Sylvers wrote excellent travel guide article in July 19’s New York Times on exploring volcanoes Vesuvius near Naples, Vulcano and Stromboli both in Sicily’s Aeolian Islands, and Mount Etna in eastern Sicily. He gives good practical details on how to get to each place, costs, time of [...]
The Wedding Officer book cover The Wedding Officer gives you all the elements for a “can’t put the book down” tale: food, love and tragic, amusing, colourful details of life in Naples in World War II with two characters in conflict who transform their lives. Based on true facts and actual historical records too! If [...]
garden at villa hotel This October and November, we’re offering 10-15% discounts on low season prices for groups at a cooking school at a beautiful four star villa hotel overlooking the Bay of Naples. You cook hands-on with a joyful, fun loving Neapolitan cook in a state of the art cooking school kitchen. You laugh, [...]
Ahh…summer in Italy! Mediterranean sunshine, warm sea, languid siestas, longer light to savour warm evenings, gelato for breakfast, lunch and dinner…and maybe some beach romance. Plus summer brings many fun, unique festivals and performances. How about seeing Sting in concert on a warm evening outside at Taormina’s Greek theatre in Sicily? Mount Etna watches in [...]
villa hotel exterior at night One of our most popular Italian cooking school tours at a small, four star, historic villa hotel overlooking Sorrento and the Bayof Naples is offering an amazing discount and upgrade if you book cooking tours for May or June, 2012. We’ve sent many ecstatic food lovers to have fun with [...]
In our Skype conversation, Bonnie Alberts of napoliunplugged enthused on and on about typical “must eat” Neapolitan dishes. When I visited the recipe section on her site, I found a nice surprise—all of the dishes she’d mentioned and more—with chatty commentary about cooking it with Giuseppe, the recipe and step by step directions with photos. [...]
Naples and Vesuvius. Courtesy of Bonnie Alberts, napoliunplugged.com On Skype I had the pleasure of interviewing Bonnie Albert, owner/blogger at napoliunplugged.com. This joyful freelance writer, foodie and photographer with a degree in historic preservation, has loved living in Naples for seven years. Naples is authentic Italy, she says. Neapolitans are very generous and warm. She’s [...]
Piazza San Carlo in Turin, Italy, home to historic cafes with chocolate treats Planning on visiting Turin, Rome or Palermo? In big Italian cities, plan on using public buses, subways or taxis or walk. They say the best way to see a country is on foot and that’s certainly true in the historic centre of [...]
Piedmont’s Barolo lovely wine country with town of Barolo in centre. Dreaming of exploring magnificent Italian countryside, strolling in medieval hill towns, browsing small town markets, staying in an agriturismo/farm inn run by a local family? Some people have asked us for a cooking school tour in the countryside with accommodation within walking distance of [...]
view from Ravello’s Strada Panoramica down over Minori An American woman phoned me with questions about a cooking school and culture tour for her and her husband with a delightful family in Sorrento. They were going to fly into and out of Naples. As well as the four night cooking tour, they wanted to explore [...]
