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Shenanigans in Catania

With a few holidays to spare we packed up for a week’s visit to Sicily, our first stop being Catania. The landscape and how the light touched everything in…

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Sicily: More Shenanigans in Palermo

Known for its beautiful sandy beaches, food, theatre and scenery; Palermo lies further up the island- 3 hrs drive from Catania. Sicily doesn’t escape its association with the Mafia…

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Villa poppaea-Scavi di oplontis

For Fran, Torre Annunziatta is home. Situated by the sea in Naples- south on Italy. It was once flourishing in ironwork, food production and highly regarded for pasta. After…

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Pompeii, the unearthed lost city.

Before And like any other day, the sun set upon Pompeii, the prosperous Roman occupied city on the Mediterranean port. The marketplace, bustling with hungry traders and determined consumers…

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Naples

“Resto, resto a letto”(it means: “stay, stay in bed”) it’s a line from one of my favourite songs (pigro) by Pino Daniele. When i close my eyes, everything almost…

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Recipes/ Mains

Creamy Pasta With Beans

I had been craving pasta with beans for a week straight, right before meeting my good friend Evija for an overdue lunch, and we decided to try out another…