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, […]
Biking through Burgundy’s Cote de Beaune – Chardonnay heaven!
I don’t know a better way to spend a day than in one of Burgundy’s five wine regions Cote de Beaune…the world’s finest producer of Chardonnay. For those of you that know me, it wasn’t by chance! Beaune is just 20 minutes by train from Dijon, so easy to get too. We were met by our cycling […]