The seasons in Le Marche are all fascinating, but now, after the hot summer, we should enjoy the autumn with golden sunlight, the scent of mushrooms in the forest, the end of vendemmia (grape harvest), the beginning of the olive harvest, chestnut gatherings, polenta festivals, discolored leaves, wood and fireplace Read more…
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…
A calm sea or fierce breaking waves? Regardless, the Benedictine monks used to go fearlessly to their church for the daily prayers. Since 1034, the snow-white Romanesque almshouse on the Adriatic Sea has stood out both from the sea and the shore where the white Conero stones contrast fiercely against Read more…
In almost every market in Le Marche there is a stall selling stockfish and baccalà. I am not very fond of the stockfish (and I even spent 2 years and a half in Norway!) but it is a real regional specialty here. Even though…all the fish comes from the Scandinavian Read more…
Living in the countryside in Le Marche means that you never rest, especially after the grapes harvest, there it comes the olives’ one! Italy has as many as 400 different types of olives that vary from the olives you can eat alone to those more suitable for the oil. In Read more…
When I was a child, my family usually preferred the mountains to the seaside, at least “you can breathe fresh air and not die for the intolerable heat!” – this was like a mantra. The closest place with chill air was Poggio San Romualdo where I spent my summers having Read more…