Category: Peek into Puglia
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High life to paradise: From NYC a place that never sleeps to Puglia, a piccola paradise.
Here’s Martin Markovitz’s account of his life changing decision to move to Puglia. Thanks for sharing your story with Puglian Pleasures Martin. One year ago today, Jeanne and I stepped off the plane from New York. We haven’t looked back since. We traded in a noisy, overcrowded, polluted, gruff and impersonal situation for a life […]
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Sneaky Peek into Puglia: May 2016
A Spring welcome from sunny Puglia. This month I thought I might introduce you all to the ‘masseria’. If you ever have the opportunity to visit Puglia and take a trip into the countryside, you will see examples of these historic masterpieces. Masserie (plural for masseria) were primarily built between the 16th and 18th centuries, […]
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A Sneaky Peek into Puglia: February 2016
Written by guest blogger Richard Watkins. Wow, so much has happened in February to share with you. The highlights being: participating in the Venice Carnival, 25 year reunion with Amex colleagues and attending 6 Nations Rugby match in Rome. OK, so this blog isn’t much about Puglia this month but sometime we do venture ‘fuori […]
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A Sneaky Peek into Puglia: January 2016
Written by Richard Watkins Belated welcome to 2016! January is a fairly quiet month, after the extravagance of Christmas and New Year, which we spent with about thirty friends, at a local restaurant, eating drinking and generally being merry! In early January, Italy celebrates Befana, to quote from Wikipedia ‘In Italian folklore, Befana is an […]
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A Sneaky Peek into Puglia: December 2015
Hello again from Puglia and a Merry Christmas to you all. Reference my previous blog. I have been asked what happens to the residue from the olive processing? Well, the pits (which are ground down) are kept for wood burning stoves. The olive fruit, which is reduced to a puree, is stored and used as […]
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A Sneaky Peek into Puglia: November 2015
‘Olives are ready for harvesting’ was the voice in the air. Tractors of all ages, strange shaped trailers loaded with plastic containers, nets, floor hoovers, etc, were mobilised all over the Puglian countryside. The weather was good to us with blue skies and temperatures climbing into the early twenties. My appointment was with newly found […]
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A Sneaky Peek into Puglia: October 2015
A good friend of my, Richard, has kindly offered to write a monthly review of life in Puglia from the perpective of a British Expat. If you’re thinking of moving to Puglia or are just interested to hear what life is like in this beautiful part of Italy, then these insider blogs are just for […]
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