Flea, food and wine Markets in Bordeaux for unique shopping, but also to observe (and photograph, if you like) the local society and discover its most interesting aspects. Leggi in Italiano As I already wrote in the post on pop-rock curiosities and the mysteries of Bordeaux, this important French city hosts beautiful antique and modern […]
Provence by car: 4 amazing routes
leggi in italiano Traveling to Provence by car: here we go with 4 routes taking between 7 and 20 days, among sweet-smelling villages, natural parks, food, wine and lavender. And your life will never be the same again. My love for southern France has never been a secret and my unresolved issues with the Provence […]
Top 5 winter destinations for wine lovers
Cover pic. by Daniele Notaro, from the campaign #gentesimpotica www.garofano.aziendamonaci.com Winter is not only a matter of Xmas, gifts and snow. Personally I love all of the mentioned winter aspects but I’m so grateful (I really am) that winter is much more than this. Winter is the period when the most tasty-no diet food is there […]
Top6 (+ 2) best street food I’ve ever had
While strolling around in any place in the world, street food is almost always my main source of livelihood, together with beer. Sitting in a restaurant is generally something that I hardly do once a day, and maybe that’s among the main reasons why I can afford travelling quite a lot, despite being a free […]
What Macarons have in common with the Gioconda
Read it in Italian Here we go again, and this time it’s not even Napoleon’s fault. Apparently even the macaron, sweets so loved also in Italy and spread all over the world as a French speciality seem to have Italian ancestry and were taken without patent to France by Catherine de Medici in 1500 at […]