Tag: Bologna

Tagliatelle with Slow-cooked Beef Ragu

.Reading time 11 minutes.

This is a ‘bolognese’ sauce in essence, but of course we are better informed in 2018 and know we must never talk about ‘Spaghetti Bolognese’, especially to an Italian – and particularly one from Bologna! Certainly you will find meat ragù in Italy though and the first recorded version of a meat sauce served with […]

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Bologna: Last Day Shopping & Morandi Still Lifes

.Reading time 12 minutes.

Last days on holiday can be lost affairs depending on the time of your flight home. But my flight from Bologna to London wasn’t until early evening so I had most of the day to enjoy more of this beautiful city and see and experience more of its delights. The forecast wasn’t great and heavy […]

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The Art of Travelling Well

.Reading time 8 minutes.

‘The journey not the arrival matters,’ wrote T.S.Eliot. Certainly the nature of the journey and the anticipation of the trip to come are part of travelling well, but for me the destination most definitely matters too. How disappointing it is to look forward to travelling to a new place and find it’s not as you […]

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