Prepare the ingredients! A rustic and delicious recipe to try.
Guessing game! What cake is it?It can be round… but also rectangular! We eat in the winter … but also in the summer! It is filled with jam … but also with cream, ricotta or fresh fruit! It is a cake for breakfast … but also a dessert to be enjoyed at the end of […]
Marche region – A region as wonderful as it is unusual
Did you know that le Marche is the only Italian region to have a plural name? The name Marche derives from the Germanic word “mark” which means border. The region was one of the borders of the Holy Roman Empire and the emperors entrusted the various possessions of the territory to the nobles to administer and control […]
Yellow May in Italy
Spring has started for a couple of months now in Italy; the sun gives us long and warm days and nature has awakened! It is an explosion of colors and scents of blossoming flowers and sprouting plants, it is an explosion of noises with the animals that now have finished their winter rest and move, crawl, chirp …Something amazing […]
Her Majesty, the cannoli
I challenge you to go to Sicily and not to stop in a traditional pastry shop!Don’t even try it. You will lose!😉 I often go to Sicily for work and pleasure. The delicacies of its pastry shop tradition are real temptations, to which we cannot (and must not!) say no. Everything is delicious: from the traditional cassata to the granita, […]
A Sunday of ordinary happiness. Not too ordinary though.
From 26 April 2021 in Italy, a decree law relating to measures to fight and prevent the contagion from COVID-19 has established new rules to be followed for the next few weeks: significant changes have been introduced that provide for a gradual reopening of activities, from schools to cinemas, from gyms to restaurants… On Sunday, […]
When a paper sheet is a piece of art. The paper mill in Amalfi
I am a technology enthusiast: always looking for web applications that can help me in my work and in my passions. I like to communicate quickly and effectively; I am interested in everything related to photography and video. I must admit it: I am a 51-year-old geek. There is a moment, however, when I feel like […]
Ready, set, go! Walking is giving yourself a gift
I’ll tell you right away, it won’t be an article with a list of benefits of walking! This is rather a simple reflection focused on the exact moment when you are about to start your excursion: you then close the door of your car, put on your old jacket and backpack and… ready, set, go! It is […]
A plant that has seen a lot – Story of a millenary olive tree
Where has everyone gone? This might be what the thousand year old olive tree of Bovara, a small fraction of the Umbrian municipality of Trevi, is wondering. You got it right … a thousand year old! It is called the Olive tree of Sant’Emiliano because it seems that the bishop of Trevi Emiliano was tied to […]
The fragile saffron flower
There is a flower that always makes me smile: the blossom of saffron.So fragile but still making its way through the hard clumps. The saffron plant comes from a bulb (crocus sativus) and grows around 20-30 centimeters in height. The flowers have a purplish lilac color and inside there are three bright red stigmas. The latitude of Italy […]
Why should I take an organized walking tour? What’s behind a tour production
There is no “best” way to take a trip: there are those who love to move from city to city with their camper van and those who book a single seafront hotel to relax on the beach. There are those who love to climb mountains by camping and those who prefer the spas. There are […]
Get used to being amazed. Sicily, the beautiful.
Sailing with a boat on the crystal clear waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea,a few kilometers from the Sicilian coast, an island appears before us…or maybe two? The Greeks called it Didyme (from dìdymos, twin) for its morphology characterized by the presence of two volcanic reliefs separated by a plateau. I’m talking about the Island of […]
The rest of the olive tree
Winter is a period of rest for everyone,even for plants. In winter plants reduce their physiological functions to a minimum: they slow down and wait patiently for the cold period to end in order to be reborn in spring. Even the olive tree, one of the most widespread crops in the Tuscan countryside, experiences this “vegetative […]