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Tag: Italy

Alba, Piedmont

Alba: the perfect base for exploring wineries, hilltop towns and truffles

3 January 2026 Pat Hindley Europe, Italy

Alba is probably most famous for its white truffles. But even if, like me, you’re not a fan, this Italian[…]

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Book review: Taste: My Life Through Food, Stanley Tucci

4 July 2025 Pat Hindley Books, Food

If you enjoy reading about mouth-watering food with a generous sprinkling of celebrity gossip and recipes, then Taste: My Life[…]

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Matera

Mesmerising Matera: experiencing the extraordinary

29 June 2022 Pat Hindley Europe, Italy

Much as I loved our adventures around Puglia, the highlight of the trip was undoubtedly Matera, which is just across[…]

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Lecce cathedral

Lovely Lecce: Puglia’s baroque beauty

6 February 2022 Pat Hindley Europe, Italy

After a couple of days in sparkling white Ostuni, our Puglian road trip saw us heading further down the heel[…]

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Beautiful Ostuni: Puglia’s sparking white city

6 November 2021 Pat Hindley Europe, Featured post, Italy

Puglia might only be the heel at the bottom of Italy’s boot, but it’s an area that delivers a big[…]

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Mosaic

Ravenna’s magical mosaics

14 December 2019 Pat Hindley Europe, Italy

Ravenna is one of those places that you can’t believe isn’t more famous. True it’s one of many art towns[…]

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Bologna

Bologna: porticoes, piazzas and pasta

16 November 2019 Pat Hindley Europe, Italy, Latest post

There aren’t many places I visit that I think I could live in, but Bologna is definitely one of them.[…]

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Food tour

Bologna: following foodie footsteps

16 November 2019 Pat Hindley Europe, Italy

There’s no doubt I have Rick Stein to thank for discovering Bologna, the foodie capital of the Emilia Romagna region,[…]

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