Sorry I've not been much of a blogger for a while. We spent the summer in Italy where there was no internet access and came home so pissed off with the whole thing that I haven't felt like setting finger to keyboard since.
To cut a very long story short - we were promised a house we could stay in and arrived to find a building site. Over the next week or so the builders worked incredibly hard to give us somewhere we could stay and almost managed it except for one small problem: the electricity connection hadn't been ordered in time. After some weeks of promises (and our good friend Luca personally calling the provincial director) we finally got a cable laid to the house. Sadly this proved to be a false dawn because it stopped at the top of our neighbour's pole a tantalising 6 inches short of the mains cable to which it needed to be hooked up. Everyday we looked and every day it remained resolutely unconnected. A state that only changed (wouldn't you know it) two days after we left.
Oh well - it will be finished for Christmas (or somebody's coglione will be hanging from the tree!)
In April 2007 the Grant family from England visited Le Marche for the first time. A year later they were the owners of an abandoned 19th century Marche farmhouse set beside the River Tenna in Monte San Martino. This is their story and the story of the house that they have called Il Melo (The Apple Tree). (And here is the view of the Tenna from the house)
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