Italy: Puglia opens a new tasting room

My best contact in Italia, Yle, just sent her new offering for travelers Wine and Oil Tasting Room Stop in today for a wine tasting or a delicious lunch We offer fine wines and regularly schedule wine and oil tasting. This new addition to YLTOUR and COOK IN PUGLIA opens upon reservation and it isContinue reading “Italy: Puglia opens a new tasting room”

Italy: MAMMA what are you cooking?

Cooking with Mamma Giulia.   Another one of a kind experience from  Yle with www.yltourcongressi simple ingredients  The people I meet on my trips Home to Italy each year,  are the parts of each trip I remember for years.     I met Mamma Giulia on an earlier trip when I had a tour of Masseria Provenzani,Continue reading “Italy: MAMMA what are you cooking?”

Best Tour Guides in Italy

  Dream of Italy has been posting a great list of tour guides throughout Italy.   Congratulations Yle!   I travel Home To Italy every year and try to stay 4 to 6 weeks.   In 10+ years I don’t think I have ever taken a tour in Italy before meeting Roberta in Bologna or my BlogContinue reading “Best Tour Guides in Italy”

Italy with Help from a travel planner

  When traveling not all trips are  vacations, some are adventures, some for business or just the activity of getting from one place to another. Planning an adventure/vacation/trip yourself often gives you as much satisfaction as taking the trip.  However, when you want something special or beyond the basic you often need a professional to share theContinue reading “Italy with Help from a travel planner”

Italian Trip planning with Yltour.com

  When traveling not all trips are  vacations, some are adventures, some for business or just the activity of getting from one place to another. Planning an adventure/vacation/trip yourself often gives you as much satisfaction as taking the trip.  However, when you want something special or beyond the basic you often need a professional to share theContinue reading “Italian Trip planning with Yltour.com”

Pasta at Midnight: The Italian way

  Mamma Anna at the midnight pasta fest          Our friend and best guest poster, Yle from Puglia was able to send this great story before she launches her next week long event in Lecce:    a culinary tour with chef Kathy Ayer and another amazing tour for 12 lucky participants http://foodloversodyssey.typepad.com/my_weblog/food-wine-lovers-culinary-tour-puglia.html   Yltour hosted anotherContinue reading “Pasta at Midnight: The Italian way”

Italian style: sunglasses!

Yle, with Yltour.com Italian women and men are always dressed well when they go out each day. Sometimes I fail to notice how well dressed the Italians are, because I am often amazed how ‘lovely’ a group they are!   Yle gave me some insight, telling me that “we Pugliesi pay a lot of attentionContinue reading “Italian style: sunglasses!”

Gelato! A food group all it’s own!

Perhaps I LOVE ice cream because of my Italian blood………and it is really gelato I am looking for every time I stop at an ice cream store.       When home in Italy each year  I taste gelato in every town I visit in Italy.   I have my favorite gelato stores and flavorsContinue reading “Gelato! A food group all it’s own!”