Siena’s Cathedral
It’s not often I rave about churches especially in Italy where there are so many, but the Cathedral (Duomo) in Siena is a great Gothic building filled with treasures. What really stood out for me was the white and greenish-black striped marble. As well as being the symbolic colours of Siena, it gives the Cathedral […]
Barolo, Italy’s wine and food mecca
A friends big birthday bought us to the Piedmont region in Italy’s north-east. It’s not as well-known as many other Italian regions, but we loved it and immersed ourselves in this wine and food mecca. We flew into Milan and headed south-west for just under two hours. Passing rice covered plains it was not what we had expected to see, […]
Truffle hunting dogs in Alba
I’ve recently had an incredible morning truffle hunting in Alba, in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. I found a local truffle hunter, Giovanni and his dog Pearla to take us into the woods, but as he doesn’t speak English and I don’t speak Italian I’ve got a local guide Marco to interpret for us. Although it’s not the […]