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In the historic quarter of Turin, Quadrolatero Romano, near the huge market at Porta Palatina, are two sibling restaurants – Tre Gallini, a restaurant and Tre Galli, a vineria, wine bar. They have good reputations but I thought the wine bar, a more laid-back and informal place was more my thing so booked a table there […]
Read MoreI arrived back in beautiful Turin yesterday and am staying at the lovely Grand Hotel Sitea again. As British Airways is still on a winter timetable I couldn’t get a flight until mid afternoon which meant arriving in Turin at 6.30pm. The taxi ride to the centre is about half an hour so I reckoned […]
Read MoreWhy go? There are lots of good reasons to make Turin a city break destination. It’s a city rich in history (it was the first capital of a unified in Italy in 1861) with beautiful architecture, magnificent piazzas (squares) and 18km of lovely arcades lining the main streets. It is an important economic and industrial […]
Read MoreMy flight wasn’t until late afternoon so I had all morning to see more of Turin and have some lunch before I left for the airport. It was lovely to wake to a beautiful sunny day with clear blue skies. I thought I’d visit the Palazzo Reale which was a royal residence during the time […]
Read MoreAfter a post-prandial rest and with my iPhone and I fully recharged, I set off back into the city late afternoon. I decided to visit the Egyptian museum which was close to the hotel. It houses the biggest collection of Egyptian antiquities outside Cairo. I don’t think I was quite in the mood for serious […]
Read MoreIt turned out today was the Turin Marathon. Streets were closed and there were lots of people about. I began to think I’d made a bad choice in weekends but actually it was fun. The starting point was in Piazza San Carlo and as I’d decided to go to Caffe Stratta for my first coffee […]
Read MoreIt was a nice surprise to discover that Antonio was visiting his hometown for the weekend and he came over to my hotel so we could go for a drink. We headed to Caffe Torino in Piazza San Carlo, one of the city’s oldest cafes dating from 1903. It was a little early for their […]
Read MoreOne of the nicest things to do in an unknown city is to wander and explore. However, my wandering today began with intent for on a Saturday morning where else would a food blogger in a new city want to go other than to the main food market. I should really have been here last […]
Read MoreIt was great meeting Bonifacio Brass, owner of Locanda Cipriani, last Thursday and interviewing him for the blog. I’d eaten a light lunch there two years previously when I visited beautiful Torcello for the first time and when I was talking to William Goodacre of Tastes of Italy last December about Torcello and the Locanda, […]
Read MoreI love the Rialto area of Venice and while at first thought it conjures up visions of many tourists crowding across the famous bridge; traffic jams on the Grand Canal as water taxis, vaporettos, speed boats and gondolas all compete for space; and stalls full of tacky souvenirs at inflated prices, you need only walk […]
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