Category: Food

My friend Gianluca invited me to go with him to the country on last Saturday. The outlook was that it would rain a lot the next day and I was a little dubious about the proposition. He said that it will be raining less in the mountains. Sunny, he said. So I met him at […]

On Sunday we boarded a Frecciabianca (white arrow) train back to Bologna. There are the Frecciarossa, Frecciaargenta and Frecciabianca. The Red Arrow train is a “bullet train” in the Japanese parlance. They have such high speed trains in Europe but of course we don’t have them here. I took the Frecciarossa to Torino once from […]

We had to leave Lecce fairly early for the long drive back to Bari. That was where we had rented that car and we had decided that Bari warranted another full day or so to do it justice. Thanks to my iPhone GPS I was able get into the city and to the address of […]

  Why did I even know or think of Galipoli? I don’t really recall who it was, but someone Italian that I talked with in Bologna waxed ecstatic about the red shrimp in Galipoli. She said that they were particularly delicious and found nowhere else. So that fixed Galipoli in my mind, food references have […]