I have a serious addiction to figs.  Not so much to the ones back home at our market for a dollar a pop that are soft and over ripe. But to figs that are plump and dripping with juice, picked straight from the tree.  Southern Italy is saturated with fig trees and driving through the [...]

The southern tip of Sardinia Porto Ferro – Northwest Sardinia Sand dunes on the way to Porto Ferro beach

We are visiting our very first farm in Sardinia named Sa Mandra, which is located in the northwest corner of the island.  This is the epitome of a true working farm with pretty much everything served to guests coming straight from their land. The owners, Rita and Mario, came from a long line of shepherds.  [...]