{"id":3712,"date":"2026-03-08T18:19:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T18:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/?p=3712"},"modified":"2026-03-10T18:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:39:19","slug":"in-and-around-modena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/2026\/03\/08\/in-and-around-modena\/","title":{"rendered":"In and around Modena."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we were mostly child free, as The Child was enjoying some skiing up in Sestola, school trip.  I had made some plans well ahead and thought it would be great to finally go and see Modena, a bit more than 2 hours drive. We invited The Swedes along and ended up having a great day out together. The Swedes are always a good bet when it comes to company; they eat, they drink, they&#8217;re great to talk to and are severely allergic to any sort of bullshit, one of the reasons we get along well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we drove to Modena, parked the car and walked up to Piazza Duomo, past Bar Pavarotti, took a few moments to enjoy the views and went to Mercato Albinelli, following the footsteps of Robert Maklowicz, it was lunch time afterall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2026\/03\/1000029859-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2026\/03\/1000029859-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2026\/03\/1000029859-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2026\/03\/1000029859-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2026\/03\/1000029859-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2026\/03\/1000029859-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2026\/03\/1000029859-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We had a delicious lunch of some smoked fish- never before had smoked tuna or smoked swordfish before, both were fantastic. After that fish based secondi, nicely watered down with some Lambrusco ( when in Emilia Romagna&#8230;&#8230;). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next stop was Azienda Agricola Moscattini, which I had booked a couple of weeks in advance. We wanted to see one of many places where parmigiano reggiano is being made. And we ended up having a private tour, just the 4 of us and lovely Alessia.  We were shown the process of cheese making, cheese storing and then sat down to cheese tasting; we were given parmigiano of 12,24,36 and 50 months old, some cured meats, honey, local bread and a bottle of Lambrusco.  We ended up bringing home a piece of 50 month old parmigiano and some honey, among other treats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plan is to make this sort of trips more frequent together, hopefully we can make this happen. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2026\/03\/1000029864-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2026\/03\/1000029864-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2026\/03\/1000029864-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2026\/03\/1000029864-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2026\/03\/1000029864-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2026\/03\/1000029864-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2026\/03\/1000029864-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2026\/03\/1000029869-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2026\/03\/1000029869-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2026\/03\/1000029869-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2026\/03\/1000029869-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2026\/03\/1000029869-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2026\/03\/1000029869-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2026\/03\/1000029869-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we were mostly child free, as The Child was enjoying some skiing up in Sestola, school trip. I had made some plans well ahead and thought it would be great to finally go and see Modena, a bit more than 2 hours drive. We invited The Swedes along and ended up having a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/2026\/03\/08\/in-and-around-modena\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In and around Modena.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eaten-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3717,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions\/3717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}