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Italian state museums: a wind of change
I used to get a little confused with the thousands of museums and archaeological sites which Italy can boast, particularly with their policies concerning entrance fees, opening hours and memberships....
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Making “Pasta al Pesto” with the Kids
The reasons we, Northerners, love Italy are numerous. One of them, of course, is the sunshine and mild temperatures that reign all over the country when the rest of Europe is under grey skies and...
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Italian Bread that is 3000 Years Old
“Is there anything you’d like us to bring you back from our trip, Katharina?” That was last month. The day before friends of mine would leave for Sardinia. They wanted to bring me back a souvenir from...
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ZTL: No Driving In The Center Of Historical Towns In Italy
Last week I got a telephone call from my friend Jessica in New York, who had holidayed in one of our Trust & Travel villas in the spring of 2014: “You won’t believe this, Katharina: I have just...
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Proper Italian Usage and Civilities
“And that is how Italians are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with...
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Off the Beaten Tracks in Italy
I came to a dead stop and rubbed my eyes in total disbelief… My friend Rudston, here, in the heart of a remote hamlet of Sardinia? The last time I had seen him, it was in Paris more than a year ago....
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The Endless Pizza Puzzle
Are you planning to take a holiday, for the very first time, in an Italian villa or farmhouse? If so, chances are that, at some point during your stay, you will run into a small outbuilding within...
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The Special Instagram Magic
It is no secret among my friends that I am a little old-fashioned when it comes to communicating via social media. I still get on the blower a great deal (the smart version) and am more likely to send...
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A Dog’s Dolce Vita
My mother had a little smile: “Katharina, I would love to spend another holiday in Italy. But I worry about Daisy…” Daisy… the cutest wire-haired dachshund on Earth! My mum fell in love with this...
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The Baroque Beauty of Sicily
Reminiscing about Sicily, the great David Herbert Lawrence once wrote: “Anyone who has once known this land can never be quite free from the nostalgia for it.” Nicknamed “God’s Kitchen”, Sicily had...
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