Nature all around us is changing its colour, it’s that time of the year again: autumn!! Indeed, you can now find chestnuts in the shops, the truffle festivals are on and a week ago Isabelle, Elke and I were offered a vin cotto, a specialty of Loro Piceno (that’s a Read more…
Our region is such a beauty that we say that one of our hobbys is to travel around the region for the sake of admiration towards it. Every now and then we discover also some hidden treasures, and this was the case of Isabelle and Erik’s latest discovery: the Benedictine Read more…
We have written many posts about Le Marche, travelled to many hidden destinations and yet there are some places that we have never heard of! This is the case of Montegrimano Terme, whose name I read on a brochure about “Borghi più belli d’Italia” (the prestigious label that some of Read more…
Villages in Italy are inevitably losing their inhabitants (the Italian population is among the oldest in Europe) and what is left are small municipalities with barely 1000 people. Le Marche has already faced the merging of different municipality in one new village; it was the municipality of Vallefoglia that once Read more…
A thermal bath in the open air and completely free! When Otto, Elke’s husband set off on a demanding hike to Lago di Pilato with the group of hikers from Cupramontana, Elke went with them without further ado and, instead of hiking, went to relax in the thermal baths of Read more…