Practical

Where to shop

Everything you need for a few days of cooking is within five minutes of the farm. Here's where we go.

Butcher

Gelmetti Albino

Affi · 5 min by car

Our butcher in Affi, and the reason a barbecue here is worth planning.
Ask for the salsiccia luganega — the coiled local sausage — and let it cook slowly.
They'll cut steaks to whatever thickness you want if you tell them what you're doing with them.

Fishmonger

Affi · 5 min by car

A proper fishmonger, where the local restaurants buy.
Go early. What's good depends on the day, so ask rather than arrive with a list.

Winery

Affi · 5 min by car

A small family winery just down the road.
You're in Bardolino country here: the reds are light and meant to be drunk young.
A bottle at the cellar door costs a fraction of the same wine on a lake terrace.

Supermarket

Affi · 5 min by car

The shopping centre you pass coming off the motorway.
A hypermarket for everything else, plus around eighty shops if someone forgot a swimming costume.

Organic shop

Affi · 5 min by car

A small, very well-stocked organic grocer in the village.
Fresh bread and baked goods, fruit and vegetables and store-cupboard basics — and they can order in anything from the wider NaturaSì catalogue.

Pharmacy

Affi · 5 min by car

Opening hours shift with the season — open the map for today’s times.