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Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana (AVPN)

If Napoli is the spiritual home of pizza, then the AVPN is Napoli's classroom for learning how to make a true ("Vera") Neapolitan pie In...

Granada, Spain - February 2024

We arrived in Granada by coach from Malaga (Malaga trip report here). The journey from the coast to foothills of the Sierra Nevada took...

Malaga, Spain - January 2024

Malaga Airport is huge, and you can easily imagine, would be very frustrating to navigate when busy with the summer masses. As it was...

Nice, France - February 2024

Another opportunity to spend some time in Europe, found us flying in and out of the lovely city of Nice. In between we would spend the...

Palermo, Sicily - June 2023

Palermo!! What a city!! We arrived in Palermo by coach from Siracusa. The journey from the south east of Sicily to the north west took...

Bologna, Emilia-Romagna - June 2023

Bologna's has three nicknames : La Dotta (the learned one). La Grassa (the fat one). La Rossa (the red one): La Dotta reflects it's place...

Scilla, Calabria - June 2023

Scilla (or Chianalea di Scilla) is a picture postcard perfect seaside village and legendary home of the sea monster Scylla of Greek...

London to Siracusa By Train - Summer 2023

A trans-European train journey had always been on the wish list and Summer 2023 finally provided the opportunity to make it happen. The...

Lecce, Puglia - May 2023

Mezzogiorno is the Italian term for both “midday” and also for Southern Italy and our first foray into this part of the world was to the...

Basic Gluten Free Pizza Recipe

This recipe will make three pizzas. Ingredients: 500 ml of room temperature water - set aside 20 ml 665g of Caputo Gluten Free Flour...