Carbonara Chronicles: Navigating the Pasta Perils with Guanciale, Eggs, and a Dash of Controversy!
Dear adventurous souls of Walk About Italy and lovers of good food,Today, let’s dive into one of the hottest topics in Italian cuisine: Pasta alla Carbonara! 🍝 Welcome to the newsletter that settles the spiciest gastronomic debates of our time: the recipe for Pasta alla Carbonara! We’ve decided to tackle the subject with the same […]
Coffee Chronicles: Unraveling the Italian Espresso Odyssey and the Enigmatic Absence of Kettles
Dear Walk About Italy Explorers, today we will guide you through the intricate paths of Italian coffee, a kind of mystical journey rich in symbolism and complications for those unfamiliar with the territory. Let’s also delve into the mystery of the absent kettle, a lack that, for some reason, seems to baffle foreign visitors.Coffee, […]
All Things Italian Italy’s Enchanting Yuletide Tapestry. A Journey through Nativity Spectacles, Christmas Trees, and Befana’s Magical Touch
Dear Walk About Italy Explorers,In the enchanted world of Italian holiday traditions, our tale begins with the OG Christmas party planner, Saint Francis of Assisi, who back in the 13th century decided to throw the ultimate live nativity scene bash in Greccio. Picture this: farmers and animals coming together to reenact the birth of Jesus […]
Embark on an Eco-Friendly Journey through Our Sustainable Travel Initiatives
Dear guest,At Walk About Italy, we’re not just about awesome treks – we’re all about making a positive impact on the places we visit. Join us in our mission to travel responsibly and help the communities we love. Tuscany: Cultivating Goodness with Maura at the HelmMeet Maura from Sant’Ulivieri, who manages the kitchen and the […]
White Lotus or Sicily lover?
Are you one of the million people who have been bewitched by the beautiful atmosphere and scenaries seen in the TV serie White Lotus? Taormina, Palermo, Cefalù, Noto, Mount Etna. All spectacular locations.But… according to us at Walk About Italy and to our philosophy of travel, there are two cumbersome absentee in the show: Sicilian cuisine and Sicilian traditions.You cannot […]
Discover Italian Alps & Dolomites delicious food
Have you always thought that Northern Italian cuisine is dull and boring??? No NO NOOOO….you are wrong!Take a look here, these are just a sample of the large selection of gourmet food we offer during our Alps and Dolomites tour Canederli (Knodel)These are rather large gnocchi made with stale bread, soaked in milk, then enriched […]
Autumn has arrived (at last!)🍁 – We prepare a delicious winter supply
I can definitely say that September is my favorite month! The long summer and the great heat ends. The days are shorter and the nights cooler. September is a bit undecided month: it doesn’t know whether to look more like summer and give us beautiful sunny days, or be more like autumn and bring the […]
Italy + summer = gelato!
To tell the truth, in Italy we eat gelato all year round (too good!), but it is certainly in the summer that we enjoy this pleasure the most. After lunch (or as lunch), in the afternoon, late at night… any time is good to enjoy a gelato! It is nice to eat it in company. […]
Forest grows thanks to birds
I was sitting on the sofa to rest for a while when I read an article published by the British newspaper, The Guardian. It spoke of two abandoned fields near Monks Wood, a nature reserve in Cambridgeshire, which have become a young forest with about 132 trees per hectare (53 per acre), 57% of which are oaks. Do you know who planted them? […]
Laundry in the sun. A timeless habit.
Clothes hanging on the drying racks of the balconies. Clothes hanging on ropes pulled under the windows or on the terraces. Clothes hung even in the narrow alleys on ropes suspended from one end of a house to the other. They have been placed there in an accurate and well-studied way: all the laundry must enter that […]
The last emotion. The plaster casts of Pompeii.
Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. Ten years earlier there had been an earthquake, but it was not understood that it could be connected to a volcanic eruption. After all, thousands of years had passed since the last eruption of Vesuvius. During that terrible day there would probably have been a smell of sulfur and vapors […]
Desire to travel. Travelers gain confidence
Lately we hear about “revenge tourism”, but it is not a negative meaning! This expression is used to describe the feeling of redemption of people who feel the need to travel after the period of austerity and constraint due to Covid 19. Perhaps a more suitable term could be “comforting”: knowing that the experience of a journey can be […]