A week at Casa Renzo. Through the eyes of one of our guests.

We asked one of our recent guests to write about his week's holiday at Casa Renzo and this is what he had to say. You can click on the links within his account to view more pages of his favourite places.

My name is Michael from East Yorkshire and I went out to Sally & Darren's farmhouse in April 2008 
with my wife and two of our close friends.

I am already a lover of Italy and the Italian culture, architecture and Italian way of life and have visted many places in Italy including Venice, Verona, Florence, Lucca, Bologna, Capri, Positanto, Almalfi, Tropea & Sicily.

Although these places are beautiful in their own right, they are still commercialised and are not what I would call true Italy.

Le Marche however is true Italian. Our holiday was peaceful and relaxing even though everyday we visited new nearby places and spent our days strolling though ancient hill top villages and small towns with the most excellent churches and squares. We visited local markets and the stunning coastal resorts of Numana, Sirolo and Porto San Giorgio.

We visited the main towns of Macerata and Ascoli Piceno, but my favoutites were the historic hill top walled villages where there are no tourists, just Italian villages that haven't changed for many, many years.

These included Monte San Martino, Urbisaglia, Sarnano, San Gensio and the wonderful Falerone where all four of us sat in a local's cafe and had cappucino's, caffe Americano's and a selection of sweet local delicacies for 3.80 Euros.

We normally ate our evening meal on the way back and tried a different restaurant each night, all of which served excellent Italian cuisine.

Sally & Darren's farmhouse was the perfect place to end our evening. We relaxed in front of the log fire, drank the Italian red wine that we had purchased locally (excellent) and played games and chatted about our day until the early hours of the morning before retiring for a good nights sleep.

The farmhouse is fantastic, you want for nothing and the outside area and views are amazing. Unfortunately we never got chance to use the pool due to being out every day, although it would have been nice just to spend one day in total relaxation around the pool.

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