Italy restaurants: My 5 favorites after eight years living in this gastronomic paradise
Narrowing list of best restaurants in Italy to a top five is a difficult but tasty task. Here are mine.
L’Aquila
Top 10 Underrated Towns in Italy for 2020: Get off the well-trodden track
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Conde Nast came out with its annual Readers Choice list for the world’s best countries and Italy came out ninth. Italy appearing in a top 10 list is like Alabama football, U.S. billionaires and Harvard. Conde Nast called Italy the “evergreen country.” It’s always there. It’s why I’m here. And I’m not leaving. Next month […]
Abruzzo home raffle went so well, Brit is doing another not far from L’Aquila and its comeback story
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L’AQUILA, Italy — Jamie Abbott learned it’s pretty easy to sell a slice of heaven. Now he wants to sell another. The line has already formed to the right. Remember my March blog on the Englishman who raffled off a house in rural Italy for 50 English pounds (about $65)? Well, he easily sold all […]
In an Italian housing market reaching a crisis stage, this man is raffling his Abruzzo home for $65
Owning a home in rural Italy is as romantic as it sounds. Wake up to sunshine nine months a year, see rolling green hills above pretty, undisturbed meadows. Shop for fresh food every day in open-air markets and walk along millennium-old, cobblestone roads meant only for foot traffic. If you’re lucky, as I chronicled about […]