I’ve been a big fan of Auto Europe for many years. In my first few visits years ago, I tried other rental companies in Italy but once I started using Auto Europe I was hooked. Two reasons: 1) the customer service is superb and efficient and 2) I’ve always found the lowest car rental rates with them. A few years …
** NEW: Pasticceria Penso — The Best Bakery in Trieste Italy (Free Italy Travel Advice) **
True to Trieste’s multiethnic roots, Pasticceria Penso specializes in the pastries from Austria and Hungary, such as the ever-popular Sacher and Dobos cakes, as well as the ubiquitous local desserts presnitz, putizza and pinza. In all, they make around thirty-five different types of pastries, cakes, and cookies, which are purchased by locals for both special anniversary celebrations and as a Sunday post-church ritual.
Have You Tasted a Chino While in Italy?
I always feel bad when I order a Diet Coke (or “Coca Light”) when I’m in Italy. First, it clearly gives me away as an American. (Some Italians call Coke or Diet Coke – “American champagne.”) Second, it usually costs more than a glass of wonderful house wine. But sometimes on a hot day, you just crave a Coke, you …
Slide Show: Preview of Dream of Italy’s Umbria Harvest Week Trip
Join Dream of Italy this November 6th in Umbria for a week of food, wine and ceramics: Customize a slideshow Highlights of Dream of Italy’s Umbria Harvest Week: • Six nights at the 17th-century farmhouse villa La Fattoria del Gelso near Assisi, Umbria. • All meals ─ homemade by the villa’s fabulous chef or at restaurants. • Visit to Italy’s …
Galileo’s Fingers Await at Newly Reopened Florence Museum
In producing some of the world’s greatest scientific minds, Italy has shared an intimate history with the development of modern science. Based on the content of the newly reopened Instituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza (Institute and Museum of the History of Science), now renamed the Museo Galileo (The Galileo Museum), it is safe to say that the city …
Where’s Salvatore? He’s Still Cooking in Umbria
In my book, there’s now one less reason to visit the town of Foligno in Umbria – but Foligno’s loss is Spello’s gain. In Dream of Italy’s Special Report: Umbria, editor Kathy McCabe wrote about the one-of-a-kind chef Salvatore Denaro and his popular trattoria in Foligno. Salvatore has now closed his quirky and wonderful restaurant Il Bacco Felice and is …