Within five minutes of starting, the large compressed-air ‘hands’ that strip the olives from the branches and onto nets spread under the trees had broken.

The rest of the morning was a catalogue of frustration as Rocco and I drove off to get a new part; came back and found we couldn’t fit it; which then necessitated yet another hour-long round trip back to find someone who could. Which we did. Eventually.

(Think that olive harvesting’s easy ? Think again. But the results are undeniably delicious. Click the main headline title above to discover more…)

Aside from ‘Where’s best for walking ?’, ‘Where’s good to eat ?’ is the question we get asked most frequently by Villasfor2 guests.

It’s a harder question than you might think. Not because there’s a shortage of good places – but because there are almost too many.

(Here’s our first selection of five of the best restaurants to try on your Abruzzo holiday. All tried, tested and approved by us !)

This blog’s really a favour to my friend Pierino, who’s building a brand-new house just outside Lanciano and reckons it might appeal to the discerning readers AboutAbruzzo attracts.

Funnily enough, in one particular way, he could possibly be right.

(Fancy a little bit of Italian property development ? Read on…)