My favourite month of the year. By a mile. Summer’s up and running and I get to celebrate my birthday – yaaas! This June, I turned 40. So I milked it for all it was worth: a big family feast followed by a week in the motherland (Italy). After a lot of running, and a […]
A change is as good as a rest
I recently returned from two weeks in Italy. A blissful holiday to switch off, spend time with family, forget about work and soak up the sun. Perfect! La famiglia I’ve chatted about my Italian heritage in earlier posts: ‘5 days in Italy’ and ‘Roadtrip to Italy’ For years, being a Welsh-Italian to me meant huge family […]
A week in Italy in 3 pics
I’ve mentioned in earlier posts that a few times a year, I head to the hills of northern Italy. The formal line is that I go over, roll my sleeves up, and work hard bringing my family’s rustic shack up to scratch. The reality is that’s a feeble cover story for gorging on pizza and […]
A weekend (of luxury) in the Welsh hills
Last weekend was my first wedding anniversary and to celebrate, my wife and I treated ourselves to a long weekend away in the Welsh hills. If you’re expecting me to wow you with tales of wild camping, the use of age-old survival techniques, and foraging bat shit for breakfast, then hold your horses. It was […]
Roadtrip to Italy
Last year, after travelling to Italy to sign a shedload of paperwork, my wife and I took on my late great-aunt’s house in Emilia Romagna, Italy. Built by my great-grandfather (a man called Bartolomeo) over 120 years ago, the house is located in a tiny, mountainous village in the hills of northern Italy. House buying […]