GUIDE TO ITALIAN LIVING

Oysters!

Oysters!

On the night of San Silvestro, known to most of the world as New Year’s Eve, it’s an Italian tradition that the table spread includes oysters....

Valenza: a precious history
Goldsmithing capital

Valenza: a precious history

If you take the B-road 494, which bisects the most northerly corner of Lombardy, you will find yourself driving over the river Po and emerging in a different...

Isola del Giglio
Diary of a trip to remember

Isola del Giglio

Yep, I felt like one of those teenagers on a school trip. Impatient to leave, itching to set foot on Giglio again after more than thirty years. My companions...