" We still have a long way to go with our dream , but the wonderful thing is that we move towards it every day ..."
HW : What are you doing now ? This is our fourth year living in Italy ; in this time we ’ ve been busy restoring the borgata , or hamlet , welcoming guests to our loft apartment , and helping others with the process of buying a house here in Italy through our website .
Our aim is to build a community feel in the borgata , and to have guests experience a rustic life in the mountains . With two houses and out buildings still to restore we have a big project ahead of us .
We hope our project will give people an opportunity to experience rural Italian life . To feed the animals , pick the vegetables from our veggie garden , apples from our orchards , to experience the simple life with us .
So many readers of the blog have asked for a book , so that is underway and a release date is planned for June 2017 .
Having renovated multiple properties in Australia Lisa Chiodo is now on her second in Italy . She lives the rustic life ( really , really rustic ) in a hamlet at the foot of the Alps in Northern Italy . Featured on House Hunters International , this Australian family are the slightly dysfunctional version of Under the Tuscan Sun .
HW : How did you come to this place in your life ? We left our beach lifestyle in Australia ( our home was a street from the beach in sunny Queensland ) for the mountains of Italy . It was actually in a seminar when the presenter asked the audience to think about what they really wanted in life that we both leaned forward at the same time and said “ Italy ”.
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