The UK drinks a third of Italy’s Prosecco, but British visitors rarely make it to this corner of the Veneto region. After spending a night in a giant wine barrel, Clive le ...
19-07-2024
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Clive loves Venice, but on this trip, he wants to learn what it’s like to be a local, outnumbered by tourists by over 200 to one. He hitches a lift with a rare female gond ...
19-07-2024
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Clive tries to make Tiramisu in the nearby town of Treviso, heads to the lakeside village of Limone to discover the secret to a long and healthy life, and finds out the story be ...
18-07-2024
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Italians are some of the happiest people in Europe, and Bologna, capital of the Emilia-Romagna region, is known as one of the happiest places in Italy. While the Pasta Sisters t ...
17-07-2024
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Clive swerves Tuscany’s famous posh villas to head to the medieval town of Barga, where over half the locals have Scottish connections. Staying in a mansion that’s n ...
16-07-2024
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Clive takes on the star goalscorer for ACF Fiorentina's women’s team in a penalty shoot-out. Back in the city, he indulges his passion for fashion - his mum Lynne was a se ...
15-07-2024
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As long as the water’s warm, Clive loves to swim, so he’s enthusiastic about taking a dip in the vast volcanic spring of Saturnia and discovering why Italians believ ...
12-04-2024
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Clive has visited Rome before, but this time, he heads out of the centre and up one of the city’s seven hills to the rarely visited neighbourhood of Monteverde, where he t ...
11-04-2024
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Clive heads north from Lazio’s capital, Rome, to the dramatic valleys of Italy’s badlands, out of which rises the fairy-tale citadel of Civita di Bagnoregio - Lazio& ...
10-04-2024
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Staying in what was one of Naples’ poorest neighbourhoods, in a hotel that’s also an art gallery, Clive discovers how this always colourful city is changing for the ...
09-04-2024
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Starting at his favourite holiday spot on the Amalfi coast, Clive goes inland to a mozzarella factory, where he discovers how to make everyone’s favourite stringy cheese.\ ...
08-04-2024
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Famous for the ruins of Pompeii, the coastline around Mount Vesuvius has been a holiday destination since Roman times.\n\nHeading off the tourist track, Clive unearths why volca ...
05-04-2024
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Clive celebrated his 40th birthday in Sicily, but like most visitors, he stuck to the beaches. Now he’s travelling inland in the footsteps of his travel hero, the 19th-cen ...
04-04-2024
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The village of Savoca has some of the best views in Sicily, which is why Martin Scorsese chose it to film The Godfather's wedding scene. Clive hangs out at the Bar Vitelli, made ...
03-04-2024
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Clive heads to the heart of southern Italy, where the sun shines brightest but foreign tourists are relatively few. Driving his red Fiat down the same roads as Daniel Craig&rsqu ...
02-04-2024
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