

Espressino Travel wins Boutique Tour Operator of the Year Award!
Amazing news: we've been named as the Boutique Tour Operator of the Year for Puglia in the 2016 Holiday & Tour Specialist Awards by the Luxury Travel Guide! And to celebrate we’ve announced a new Weeklong Tour: September 24 to October 1, 2016. It turns out that some of our lovely guests who we welcomed to Puglia last year had such a wonderful time; they took the time and effort to contact the Luxury Travel Guide to share their thoughts and officially nominate us in the Tour O

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


Passion and Parole on Espressino Travel's First Puglia Podcast
Ciao amici! We were recently contacted by internationally respected Italy blogger Lora Savor to share a few thoughts on the culinary and cultural wonders of travel in Puglia. Lora and her Savoring Italy blog are as passionate about Italian food and drink as we are. Which is why she was eager for Robert from Espressino Travel to appear on her Due Parole podcast to talk about our tours and share some of our favourite memories from the region. We are honoured to be featured on t


Guest Blog: Summer in the Salento
We were honoured to be asked by our friends at Browsing Italy to write a guest blog post about the Salento, the corner of Puglia we’ve chosen to base our Italian Food Tours. As we’re always eager to share our enthusiasm about this amazing, but still relatively undiscovered, corner of Italy, it was our pleasure to reveal our Top 10 Tips for the Best Possible Vacation Experience in the Salento. With so much to choose from – towns, food, wine, beaches, on top of the unique cultu


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


The Espressino Travel Team Go Gargano in the Globe & Mail
We consider ourselves Puglia Experts at Espressino Travel. The Globe & Mail, Canada’s National Newspaper, agrees. Which is why millions of Canadians began their weekend with this Travel Section cover story from the Gargano Peninsula of Northern Puglia – with words by Robert and photos by Lili from Espressino Travel. We didn’t choose the headline, but the rest of the story is all our work, revealing our amazing experiences and some of the hidden gems from a rarely visited corn