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By Sonja Lee | The Foodie World contributing blogger Upon entering the steam room of the delightful sauna facilities at the Müller’sches Volksbad last weekend, your correspondent came across a woman kitted up in a [Read more...]

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Every region of Italy has its specialties. We were in Milan, so it’s almost obligatory to try a Milanese. For tourists, La Vecchia Lira is maybe as close to eating at Nonna’s place as you [Read more...]

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In a building that once housed laundries for the local nobility (in the 1700s), El Brellin sits alongside the Naviglio Grande canal, near Milan’s Porta Ticinese gate. Milan is a huge city, as befits its [Read more...]

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The historical centre of Florence is quite small, and despite not being laid out in a grid like many modern cities, quite easy to navigate. On a very hot night we headed out from the [Read more...]

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The food, wine and travel community on Twitter is amazing. In Florence, we had a standing offer to catch up with translator/traveller/sommelier/foodie @ricasoli99 AKA Katarina who said she’d be very happy to show us some [Read more...]

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On a hot summer’s evening in Venice, there’s only one thing to do – find a bar. Having just flown in Helsinki’s coldest summer in 50 years, the heat in this amazing Italian city was [Read more...]

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After splurging a fair amount of our holiday budget in Murano on new champagne glasses for our own little balcony bar at home, we were asked at the showroom about our plans for the rest [Read more...]

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If ever there was a city that catered to the rich and famous, Venice is the real deal, especially some of the swankier luxury hotels. The Hotel Cipriani (in relatively recent times, party central for [Read more...]

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Top of the list of things to do in Bologna is to have a ragu – known more widely outside Italy as ‘Bolognese’. Top of the list of things not to do in Bologna is [Read more...]

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While no doubt virtually every Italian in every city here would argue their town is the nation’s food capital, Bologna does have a very high reputation. Greedy Girl and gluttonous husband based themselves in this ancient [Read more...]

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