I discovered the joys of visiting countries around the world via incredible online Airbnb experiences. I Zoomed off to Italy to make pasta with a grandma, listened to a monk chanting in Japan, took a leopard safari in Sri Lanka, toured Paris and made chocolate with a chocolate-maker in Jamaica. Read on to lap-up my laptop adventures... Creating handmade pasta with an Italian grandma Nonna Nerina Tamanti (left) and her granddaughter, Chiara Nicolanti (right), host an online pasta-making class If you want to learn how to make pasta by hand, then turn to the ultimate teachers – Italian grandmas. Handily, a few are willing to pass on their culinary wisdom via Airbnb experience 'Pasta with the Grandmas'.