Happy New Year 2019

A good year to all of you!

Eating out - L'Erba Gatta, Triora, Liguria, Italy

The restaurant is right at the entrance of the old city center.
The food was good and at a decent price.

Trip to Borgio Verezzi, Liguria, Italy

The city center is really small, but beautiful. The view over the sea is magnificent. The signs towards the old city center are not helpful - we almost missed it.

Trip to Finalborgo, Liguria, Italy

Another lovely and lively beautiful town in Liguria.

Hotel review - Hotel NH Savona Darsena****, Italy

The room was nice and clean and the bed comfortable.

Free internet connection. Paid private parking. Just a short walk from the city center.

Trip to Noli, Liguria, Italy

You can have a sun bath or a dip in the sea, walk the narrow streets or just have an Italian coffee at one of the bars, your choice :)

Kourabiedes - Greek Christmas cookies - recipe with step-by-step photos

Ingredients for 20 cookies:

• 170-180 grams of wheat flour
• 80 grams of softened butter
• 60 grams of sugar
• 30 grams of almond flour (roasted almond flakes in the Greek recipe)
• 1 teaspoon with cognac
• 1 egg yolk
• a bit of cinnamon (nutmeg in the Greek recipe)
• a bit of salt

Beat the softened butter with the sugar and the egg yolk for 5 minutes.

Preheat the oven at 180 Celsius degrees.
Add the cinnamon (nutmeg), the cognac and the almond flour and mix.

Add the flour and the salt and mix until everything incorporated. You will have a sticky dough. If needed, add just half of a teaspoon with water.

Make little balls or crescent biscuits and put them in the oven for 20 minutes at 180 Celsius degrees or until done. Let them cool, then sprinkle above some powdered sugar .

Enjoy!

The recipe was taken from here 

Trip to Savona, Liguria, Italy

It´s not dazzling, but it's worth a visit.

Eating out - Tratoria Invexendu, Finalborgo, Italy

The fish was good and the service fast.
The restaurant is in the city center on one of the narrow streets.

Hotel review - Best Western Tigullio Royal Hotel, Rapallo, Liguria, Italy

The superior room we booked was big, but unfortunately it was just above the city center streets and the room had no soud proofing whatsoever.

Paid public parking in front of the hotel (or free at the back) and free internet connection. Overall a disappointment for the money we paid.