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Travel stories, recipes, campsite search and honest tales from Italy.
3 March 2026
You can scroll endlessly, make spreadsheets and trawl through Facebook groups. But the moment you know you've found the right place, you feel it. You smell it. You hear it in the silence between the crickets.
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Campsite search
From Sicily to Sardinia, from Naples to Puglia. How after years of searching in Italy we finally found our place in Le Marche.
Recipes
After a course in Naples with a real pizzaiolo, I'm sharing my authentic recipe. Four ingredients, two variants and one absolute rule about the rolling pin.
Recipes & regional dishes
Two thousand years of history, a unique olive that grows nowhere else and a recipe born in aristocratic kitchens. Plus: is it healthier than a scotch egg?
Villa Alwin
A tip from a colleague, a recognition from a TV programme and a video call. How we ended up at the most beautiful resort on the coast of Le Marche.
Tips
No mass tourism, affordable prices and an authenticity you'll no longer find in Tuscany. Le Marche is our heart...
Travel & tips
Daphne on evening markets by the coast, fresh produce, broken Italian and the difference between doing the shopping and simply being there.