Cover Stars: Espressino Travel Lights Up the Front Page of Canada's Biggest Travel Section
We’ve been popping Prosecco corks and the gelato tastes sweeter than ever as this weekend Espressino Travel’s Tours of the Salento filled the front page of the Travel Section of the Toronto Star, Canada’s biggest-selling newspaper. We’d welcomed writer Jennifer Allford to Puglia this June, and her glowing review of her time with Espressino Travel showed that she loved the region, its food, its culture and its people as much as we do. To prove that she couldn’t get enough of t
Savouring the Salento 2014: Our Puglia Tour is a Triumph!
September’s Savouring the Salento Tour is in the books! And we couldn’t be happier with our 2014 Puglia Tour. Where do we begin? The food was fabulous. The wine was delicious. Lecce, relaxed after the August tourism explosion, returned to its serene best. The sun came out to reveal the innate beauty of Puglia’s most stunning cities – Otranto, Gallipoli, Alberobello and Ostuni – for our visits. Our excursions – Truffle Hunting with Giuseppe and his adorable dogs, and fishing o
Guest Blog: Mangia! Mangia! The Espressino Travel Guide to Eating in the Salento
When we were approached by Beautiful Puglia to write a guest blog, it didn’t take long for us to decide what we wanted to focus on. Food. Delicious. Nutritious. Fun. Fabulous food. Everywhere in Puglia there are amazing things to eat. But in the Salento, the area South of Brindisi where we’ve based our Italian Food Tours, taste is taken to new heights on a daily basis. Ciceri e Tria. Seafood fresh from two seas. Pizza. Pasticciotti. Gelato. Sometimes it’s hard to say basta! T
Faces of Puglia
We were recently joined in Lecce by our great friend, the amazing photographer Adam Blasberg. When he wasn’t sipping Negroamaro and searching for the next seafood feast (it was his Italian vacation after all), Adam took the opportunity to unleash his camera and snap some shots of the incredible people that the Espressino Travel team is lucky enough to work with on our Foodie Tour of Puglia. We’ll be integrating these wonderful portraits into the site in the near future, but o
The New York Times Goes Cooking in Lecce
The travel experts in the New York Times have spoken. And they’re as excited as we are about the unique and spectacular cuisine of Lecce and the Salento. Read all about the art of Cucina Povera and the growing popularity of Puglian Cooking Classes in this story starring our own incomparable instructor, Gianna Greco of Cooking Experience Lezioni di Cucina Salentina, along with our friends at Lecce’s most entertaining restaurant, Alle Due Corte. If you would like to learn the s
Gianna Greco, Star of Salentine Cuisine and RAI TV
You don’t need to speak the language to enjoy this jaunt around stunning Lecce with Italian Travel show Sereno Variabile. A flagship program from Italy’s National broadcaster, RAI, there are plenty of architectural and cultural treasures from the most beautiful city in Puglia. RAI only works with the best, which is why when they wanted to speak with an expert on the food of the region, they chose Espressino Travel’s cooking teacher, our own Queen of Salentine Cuisine, Gianna
