Todo in Tuscany is about how a couple not only had the Dream, as many of us do, of starting an exciting new life abroad but how they actually did it (they bought a villa near the beautiful walled city of Lucca in Tuscany in 2007, while maintaining and running their UK-based business). What they hadn’t planned on was buying a house … with a dog attached.
And they certainly hadn’t…
Here is a simple recipe for the Zuppa di farro – Spelt Soup – from Tuscany.
Ingredients:
2 tbsp farro per person
1 onion
2 carrots
Celery
1 tomato
1 courgette
small amount of spinach
2 pork sausages mushrooms
Method
Cook farro (spelt) for 20 minutes in water and a little salt.
In the other pan put a small amount of water and add onion until softened.
Add all the other ingredients…
My name is RITA KOBRAK. I love travelling and I love Italy. The idea of mum and baby holidays came about while talking to other mums. Many said they did not feel brave enough to travel on their own with their babies and all the extra baggage that you need to take. This gave me the inspiration for mum and baby retreats in our lovely home in Tuscany.
I went about trying to make the house child…
If bilingualism is really important to you, and you really want your child to speak his second language, you should worry about it now, and wait no further, for 5 very good reasons:
1. Once you have established a parent-child communication pattern it’s very difficult and painful to change it. Later you might realise you can’t face the difficulties of imposing this change to your…