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…
I love picnics! I grew up having a very professional picnic basket, belonging to my grandparents, with all the bare necessities (although, I am not sure they were so bare) for a day in the nature. My family and I used to go picnic either on the mountains or by Read more…