Travel Tips for Marrakech, Morocco

Bits of Marrakech

A trip to Marrakech, Morocco can make your head spin.  It’s so important to come with a plan! So I compressed what I learned after multiple trips to this gorgeous city into a list of my top travel tips for Marrakech. These travel tips for Marrakech are divided into shopping, eating, sightseeing and hotels. I […]

The Five Best Bucks County Farms

Bucks County

Bucks County is not only the spot where Washington crossed the Delaware River so many moons ago, but also where Rodgers & Hart wrote “There’s a Small Hotel”.   Although technically it is only the PA side, Bucks County sits along the Delaware River which cuts PA and NJ in two, so I kind of […]

14 Best Cicchetti Bars in Venice

Best Cicchetti Bars in Venice

Venice gets an undeservedly bad rap when it comes to food. Punters shepherd hungry tourists into trattorie along the Grand Canal, serving up the ubiquitous menu turistico of pizza and spaghetti with meatballs. So try eating a few Venetian cicchetti instead! Where you may ask – well here are a few of the best cicchetti […]

A Best Bits Villa: Trullo Gauro in Ostuni, Italy

A trullo house in puglia

How lucky can one girl get!  I swear it could not have gotten any better. It was the height of luxury and I never wanted to come down.  One of my dearest friends was spending four weeks in Europe this summer with her family, traipsing through Austria, Germany and Italy. My luck was that I invited […]

10 Best Sifnos Restaurants to Try

Sifnos, Greece

There are so many Greek Islands but only one has a reputation for its food – Sifnos. There are so many fantastic Sifnos restaurants that it’s hard to choose. One reason so many Greek and French tourists come to eat is that the father of Greek cooking, Nikos Tselementes, was born and bred here. Although […]

Italian Ceramics in Grottaglie, Italy

Grottaglie, Italy

Walking down along the lovely Via Francesco Crispi in the Puglia town of Grottaglie Italy, I thought maybe I had a little too much pasta and limoncello at lunch. Everywhere I looked – every store in this famous centre for Italian ceramics  – seemed to be owned by someone whose last name was Fasano. It’s vaguely, […]