Dreaming of a midsummer dinner

After participating in 2 of the picnics, one in our lavenderfield and one at the medieval tower, my friend Cinzia was so enthusiastic that she also wanted to host an event. She had been thinking about opening a home restaurant for a while, but yes… paperwork, lockdown… and so the opening party was repeatedly postponed. […]

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Serenade

This year we all need to think a little bit “out of the box” … and that’s how we’re fantasizing about all kinds of new projects in collaboration with the local artists of Teatro Cantiere. One of the ideas that came up during a brainstorm is a romantic apericena with serenade at our StarsBOX. Yesterday

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Lavender picnic

A few days ago we enjoyed the most beautiful, nicest, tastiest, cosiest … picnic ever. I know, I am not quite objective as it was my idea, it took place in one of our lavender fields, it was organized by a group of artists I adore and even the food came from farmers who are

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Adventure walks

As I have an overactive dog and boyfriend we do a lot of walking in our hills. Over the years we discovered several paths starting from our house, some we have put in the Wikiloc-app (www.wikiloc.com – look for routes starting from Merana in Piemonte) and in some occasions I ended up on hands and

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Wasp attack

The day started idyllic: a nice long walk with the dog while taking pictures of all the wild flowers on our valley, then a bit of work on our gigantic wisteria tree … That tree would cover our whole house by now if I’d let it grow. A friend of mine came by and asked

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Mombaldone

Mombaldone (South Piemonte) is one of those villages you can visit over and over again even if it is very small. Every stone, every secret passage way seems to whisper stories of a long lost past when it was filled with shops, bars and people. Now silence reigns … are there still people behind these

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