Me, an influencer?

A few years ago I started writing blog posts for the most famous Dutch Italy website Ciao Tutti. Saskia, the owner of this site, gets regularly invited by tourist services, municipalities, organizations in Italy. Of course, she cannot accept every invitation, and that is why one day I get the question if I want to

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Exploring our backyard

Now more than ever, people are discovering their own neighborhoods. They are constricted to stay close to home and instead of planning a trip to exotic destinations, they are looking for nearby alternatives. For us this is nothing new. From the moment we moved to our Italian hill 12 years ago we started exploring “our

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A year ago, in another world

In these strange times of deadly viruses and lockdowns I look at pictures of a “small” village party last year and wonder when we will be able to party like that again. We live in a very quiet valley where they hold their traditional sagra’s, group walks and religious events, but that’s it. Or at

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Piemonte, wine country

Piemonte isn’t one of the most well-known regions and those who know it will immediately think of wines like Barolo, Barbaresco, Barbera and the wine hills, that even became Unesco World Heritage in 2014. Strange thing is our choice for Piemonte had absolutely nothing to do with vineyards or wine. When we moved here I

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Collaborations with the locals

Even if a lot of the locals still consider tourism in this area more as a joke than something to take serious, here and there we begin to see people starting to believe in the possibilities of these unknown valleys on the border of Piemonte and Liguria. Our mayor even convinced several farmers and people

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From the city to the farm

When we moved here and started our lavender farm over ten years ago, everyone thought we were crazy. Nobody understood why you would quit a successful career abroad to start a farm in the middle of nowhere. It was even considered suspicious and people wondered from what we had to flee. Fortunately, the last years

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