Australian Country

Under the Tuscan sun

“Frances Mayes was the main inspiration towards my love of everything Italian. I must have read her book a billion times, and sobbed through the movie of the same name on many a Sunday afternoon.”

Almost every wanderluster dreams of one day signing the title of a centuries-old, broken-down villa ripe for restoration in some blissfully forgotten corner of Europe. Savings accounts can rarely keep pace with imaginations run wild and daydreams of long, lazy summers spent tending olive groves and sharing vino alongside the locals. It’s fodder for countless books and movies for a very good reason. Arguably, the

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