Welcome to my home in Tuscany.

Allow me to introduce you to my “RECIPE TO RELAX” week. I’m Portuguese by birth, Italian by design, and British by marriage. I’m blessed with fluency in five languages and will happily teach you to relax in any one of these!

“RECIPE TO RELAX” is designed by me, principally for Mums with homes to run, careers to manage and stress to live with every day. It’s designed to be a week of pure and simple pleasure that will leave you relaxed, refreshed and reinvigorated. The pleasures will include the good company of friends new and old, a wonderful location, a caring hostess and surrounded by the wonders of the home of the Renaissance. A week of such joy you’d forgotten could exist.

Posticcia Vecchia is our home, high in the hills overlooking the Valdambra. Here I will show you how Italian family life revolved around the kitchen. I use my Cordon Bleu skills to complement old recipes and techniques to provide you with the real flavours of Tuscany, but in a lighter and modern mood.


During our time together we’ll visit a local Spa to renew your energy through regenerating treatments and massages with natural products.

Pieve a Presciano, where John and I live, is in the triangle of Arezzo, Siena and Florence. You’ll capture moments of true Italian life and history within these cities; equally you may simply sit and watch the world go by as you truly relax.

You’ll stay in the magnificent Castello di Gargonza, built in the 12th Century, today a hotel of great charm, style and warmth. Each guest has her own bedroom within a two bed-roomed apartments, each with a cosy lounge and small kitchen.

So turn to the next page and explore how seven days in Tuscany with me can really be a “RECIPE TO RELAX”



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