We first travelled to Italy back in 2013 as part of what we thought would be a once-in-a-lifetime trip around the country. Little did we realise how much we would fall in love with the country and how often we would return. This year we decided to return, first to the Veneto region… Read More
In hindsight, it probably wasn’t the best of ideas to have booked an early morning Eurotunnel crossing on the morning the clocks sprung forward an hour. The 4.30am start that beckoned was no more appealing when we kept translating it as ‘4.30am – actually 3.30am by yesterday’s time,’ because we, it seems, like to punish… Read More
Our decision to give up on our dream of selling up and moving to start a smallholding wasn’t one we took lightly. We worked for many years to turn our dream into a reality, it came to the point that it was about to be made real and then it hit us that… Read More
One common excuse for not travelling with children is the sheer expense of the feat. We believed the same thing until we planned and took our two month road trip around Italy and France in 2013. Up until that point we had always assumed that long term travel would be expensive and unaffordable.… Read More
A trip to Scotland has long been on our list of places to visit and still remains so. Rich in history, with striking scenery and breath-taking lochs we cannot believe that we have yet to make our way there. The new Macdonald Aviemore Hotel in the highlands of Inverness-shire currently has a fabulous deal… Read More
While grappa is not quite regarded as the typical after dinner drink in the UK things are very different in Italy. We visited the Poli Distillery, the home of Poli Grappa since 1898, to find out more about the range of grappas and the production process behind them. The Poli Distillery is… Read More