Off to cooking school again, this time to shop at the market then cook lunch. We met Lise at the market, it was a rainy morning but we set off and selected produce for lunch. We then went back to the school and cooked our lunch. We started with a tomato salad, this was colourful, delicious and easy to make. We then filleted some fish ( looked like bream but called Dorade) and covered them with vegetables and baked them. Lots of capsicums, eggplant and fennel with...

Catch up time - on 19th I started the day with breakfast Parisian style, coffee and bread. I then travelled by metro to La Cuisine cooking school for my first class. We met Lise our chef who took us through the basics first then we got stuck into chopping vegetables for stock for French onion soup. We then chopped up lots of onions for the soup. We then broke down a chicken into various pieces and even though I've done this many times I learnt some useful tips. W...

What a great day. Started out cool on the mountain and on the drive to Vallo to catch the train. Sonia and Mili waited with me to see me off on the train to Naples, a very comfortable trip and on time! Arrived Napoli Centrale station and stepped out to get a taxi to the airport. What a ride, crazy driving and as he had plastic covers on the seats I was sliding across the back seat. We arrived at the airport after a 15 minute ride as follows:- constant blowing on...