by Villasfor2 | Mar 18, 2018 | About Villasfor2, Eating and Drinking, Entertaining Abruzzo, News & Offers
This year’s our 10th anniversary of running Villasfor2 in the Italian region of Abruzzo. And because blogs like this can crop up in the oddest places, and you’re wondering, “what’s Villasfor2 ?”…or “where’s Abruzzo...
by Villasfor2 | Dec 19, 2016 | Daily Life, Eating and Drinking, Entertaining Abruzzo
An evening celebrating the release of 2016’s Vino Novello at Cantina Frentana, midway between Lanciano and Fossacesia. As it turned out, our last festa of the year – and one of the very best. And last blog of the year too… Great setting. Terrific...
by Villasfor2 | May 9, 2016 | Daily Life, Eating and Drinking, Entertaining Abruzzo
Italy invented the pizza. By a mile – by several miles in fact – it’s the country’s favourite fast food, and pretty well wherever in Italy you might find yourself, you’re probably no more than a few minutes from the local pizzeria. Or several of them. In...
by Villasfor2 | Mar 30, 2016 | Daily Life, Eating and Drinking, Entertaining Abruzzo
Time to revisit places to eat in our corner of Abruzzo. I’ve blogged on the subject before, but that was quite a while ago, and in the meantime new places have been discovered and old favourites have developed. And I’m presenting my choices in a slightly different way...
by Villasfor2 | Nov 28, 2014 | Entertaining Abruzzo, Sights
A great part of Abruzzo’s charm is that it’s pottered along quietly and unremarkably since its first traces of human habitation in the Neolithic era some 6000 years ago. In the intervening period, there hasn’t been a Medici family – as there was in Florence...
by Villasfor2 | Aug 27, 2014 | Daily Life, Entertaining Abruzzo
When it comes to the top destinations in world travel, have you noticed there’s generally a single, over-used adjective that lazier travel writers imagine describes a place to perfection ? New York is ‘brash’; Paris is ‘romantic’; Germany is ‘efficient’; Holland is...