Appreciating food, its origin and the work that goes into producing it is something we are keen for our children to understand. In travelling, we have opened the door to many opportunities to experience where our food comes from and, much as I love books, travelling with our children has made us realise that… Read More
Tag: Italy
The Papier-Mâché Artists of Puglia
One of any child’s most favourite crafts surely must be the sticky, messy art of papier-mâché? Who doesn’t recall with fondness the childhood memories of trying to prevent torn pieces of old newspaper from slipping across a blown balloon as you slathered heap upon heap of wallpaper paste from a margarine tub across it with… Read More
Discovering Puglia
We first travelled to Italy back in 2013 as part of what we thought would be a once-in-a-lifetime trip around the country. Little did we realise how much we would fall in love with the country and how often we would return. This year we decided to return, first to the Veneto region… Read More
One Day (and Night) in Cesenatico
When we travel with most of the children we tend to stick to the minibus as our mode of transport. It is much easier to pile our belongings and them onto it and set off than it is dealing with passport queues and airports with the ten of them, especially as so many… Read More
Naples: Our Top Three Places to See
It is with much fondness that we look back upon our time in Naples when we took our eight week 2013 road trip around France and Italy with ten of our children. It was our penultimate stop in Italy and the furthest south of the country’s Mezzogiorno that we would visit. Naplies sits on… Read More
The Best Italian Food & Drink Expo is Back in London (Get Your FREE Tickets NOW!)
It’s almost July and that means that our favourite Italian food and drink exhibition is back in London very soon! We can’t believe that it’s a whole year since we teamed up with Bellavita, hosts of the biggest made-in-Italy food and beverage trade show in the UK. During our stay in Padua… Read More