Travel

THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE RENAISSANCE It takes a special place to produce truly unique food and wineThe reach and influence of a ‘big banking’ or political dynasty family isn’t a modern phenomenon. The Medici’s pretty much invented the excess and wealth that can come from controlling a region (or country’s!) money. With this status came the patronage for most of the great Italian Renaissance art we still treasure today and of course: culinary excess – even when most of the population were unable to afford to eat meat, or worse, were starving.Even before they became Dukes, Popes and Queens, Florence...

Have kids. Will travel.   When I first started dating my now husband we began travelling together almost immediately. Before we’d been together even 4 months, we took a spur of the moment trip to Hong Kong and spent 8 days getting lost and getting to know each other. Travel has become a key component in our relationship and a foundation of who we are. Covid has been merda and astonishingly hasn’t led to murder.   Now that ‘care-free two’ have become ‘tired-AF three’, we are starting to prepare for our holidays to take on a new element: overseas travel...