It's been a hard day lazing in the sun by the pool; or at the beach; or looking at Abruzzo properties for sale; or up in the Gran Sasso; or shopping in Pescara; or simply just ambling round in the car, going where the mood takes you. Now, you're back in your Abruzzo villa rental […]

While we're just about to start our own Abruzzo villa rental building project, our friends Becky and Andrew from Cornwall in south-west England are well on their way to renovating part of what was once a church in Manoppello, a village on the northern fringe of the Maiella National Park in Abruzzo's Pescara province. Like […]

How to lose friends and influence nobody… Recommending an estate agent is as perilous as recommending a doctor, a lawyer or a good school for your kid. The one who showed us round a pile of rubble in the middle of a field miles from anywhere and assured us it just needed 'a bit of […]