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Most years I organise an olive harvest.  This involves picking about 200kg of olives, taking them to the mill to be pressed and bringing home the large steel churn filled with the green gold liquid.  The high quality oil you buy from the shops has nothing like the aroma and taste of freshly milled oil.  Although I have been harvesting the olives for quite a few years now I still enjoy the experien...

The house is named after my mother.  When she died she left me a small amount of money that made the dream of owning a property abroad a possibility.  We did not know where we would buy and the region of Le Marche was one of the first areas we looked in, viewing 17 properties in 3 days!  Although not intending to buy immediately we saw no reason to look elsewhere when Le Marche was so beautiful an...