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I might be a little nervous about renting the house out but, Col. Buttero itself thrives on having people stay. It really comes to life with happy, eating, drinking, chillin’, playing, dancing people. Continue reading Holiday rental – summer 2020
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Lucca is 3.5 hour drive from the house and the drive itself is fine. The trouble, and I knew this would happen, is that Lucca is not a town to drive in Continue reading The Bumble arrives at Col Buttero and a trip to Lucca
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Italian sunshine, prosecco and a pasta madness cooking competition. Welcome to Col Buttero. Continue reading Jolly friends and pasta madness
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A surprise visit from past Col Butterians Continue reading Col Buttero – The Sensi family visit
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Great pizza, a Templar church and a very old humpback bridge that Raphael eternalised – all part of our small town of Apecchio Continue reading Our town Apecchio – part two
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Apecchio is our sweet local little town. It brimms with history and yummy Gelato. Continue reading Our town Apecchio
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I have tried for years to make the perfect home made pasta and never really succeded. There are so many different recipes and ways of making it that it makes your head spin and you can’t try them all. My ravioli have either come apart and the filling melting into the water or the pasta has had a grey unpleasant looking apperance. So, whilst on … Continue reading Pasta à la Anna – the Apecchio way
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Ciao peeps We’re on the last leg of our summer drive down to Italy. It’s gone remarkably smooth so far (knock on wood and spit :)) It might have something to do with us buying the Flexi fare with Eurotunnel as for the last few years, the trains across the channel have just been getting worse and worse, delayed every single time, and when you’re … Continue reading The drive to Col Buttero
He leaves a trail of poop as he wanders around the house in the night (including my husbands bedside table, inches away from his face usch) and eats… wait for it…. apple scented Ikea candles!!! Continue reading Ciao from me and Rattie
Ciao, ciao, ciao chaps We’re back the UK after a month in Italy. Boy, did that month go fast, but then again, it always does on hols, doesn’t it. We’ve been out for lunch a lot, hung around the pool a lot and nearly burnt the house down with an Ikea wooden BBQ that didn’t appreciate the oil based chicken marinade. Luckily enough we were … Continue reading Back home again
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