Le Marche – Casa San Ruffino

Photo above from the Casa San Ruffino website (photography by Charlie Pinder)

We were so lucky to find this wonderful place to stay – Casa San Ruffino – a small boutique hotel/bed and breakfast (only four rooms) in rural Le Marche.  I didn't have a chance to snap a photo of the room before our stuff was all over the place so above is a photograph from their website.   It's a 19th century farmhouse, renovated by the owners, Ray and Claire Gorman.  It was done so beautifully, with rough stone floors, exposed wooden beams and simply beautiful bathrooms. 

The view here was so amazing, rolling hills full of sunflower fields, tractors moving up and down the other fields harvesting, birds dipping in and out of the pool, little villages dotted around the hilltops.  
 

We hired a car and in the evenings we would drive to neighbouring villages where we had some amazing food and ice cream of course!

This was in a small village we went to on our last evening where we had the most delicious food!...which of course I can't remember the name of right now!  But if you stay at Casa San Ruffino they provide you with a list of recommended local restaurants - this was a favourite of theirs and I know why - it was fantastic!

I did come to an interesting realization while I was there though…I no longer have dreams of moving to the Italian countryside and renovating a farmhouse.  Shocking I know!   It was beautiful for a few days, but for a long time or a life time I realized it’s not for me.  Phew, one less that things to plan for!...that doesn't mean I don't want to go back for a holiday though!  We loved it!  It also doesn't mean I don't want to renovate a beautiful old house...I totally do!


Do you have dreams of renovating an old house somewhere, moving to the sea, moving to another country?