Nero d'Avola Grape Last year for the trip from Liguria to Sicily, we changed the way of buying wine. Rather than stacking the boat with...

Typical Landscape in Puglia - Italy's heel Almost a week ago I blogged about Calabria's mountain food, a diet rich in vegetables with a...

All Coastal Towns in Calabria are heavily fortified against the Saracen Threat A few days ago, my best friend David suggested to also...

As I was preparing my next blog on food in Sicily, Calabria and Apulia I began wondering which of the cereals, vegetables and fruits were...

Instead of writing my sailing brochure as I did for the last four years, I am going to write a weekly blog instead. There is so much to...

Today's blog will be mostly photos. There was so much going on. A few photos say so much more than many lines of text 7.30 am - we...

Arriving in Trepani, the Erice Mountain at the back Approaching Sicily at 10 am this morning, we were greeted by a bunch of tuna and...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about local grapes in Sicily and Sardinia. Some of them have roots back to the time when Greek and Phoenician...

It never occurred to me that someone could blend bread and cheese but people in Genoa do so with their Pecorino Focaccia. There are so...

Writing for two days about Genoa made me thinking of Focaccia, the town’s famous flat bread. I wondered how many new bakeries had to open...

We are all looking forward to the delicious seafood we are going to have during our sailing holiday. Buying if directly from the...

The English make movies titled 4 Weddings and a Funeral. The Italians name wines for Fresh Water (Dolceacqua) and Five Counties (Cinque...

Most people who holiday in Corsica associate the island with beauty, sun, sea, rocks and maybe some rosé. But hardly anybody associates...

Expected to hit the maximum of grape varieties yesterday in my blog on Sardinia. But clearly had not done my research. On Corsica, there...

If you hoped that only Sicily is hanging on to its historic grapes, wait until we arrive in Sardinia. You may not have heard of...

Having talked about corks and bottles yesterday, I won’t be able to avoid the topic of wine – as you will discover, the islands and...

`In our journey to discover the cuisines of our 2020 sailing we finally arrive in Liguria our place of departure on 11 July. With the...

Today’s blog is about Sicily’s Cuisine. As we have seen in previous blogs, the island was settled by Greek and Phoenicians about three...

In one of my 2018 blogs I talked about the logistics of feeding ancient Rome and reached the conclusion that it needed about 365’000 tons...

After yesterday’s foray to the Green Sahara, it is time to return to Berber Culture and the Tunisian Cuisine. We will return to the...