Carmine Superiore blog

Click here to read the story of daily life in Carmine Superiore. For more than 20 years, the writer lived and worked in London in order to finance a fairly serious rough-travel habit. In 2002, she and her now-husband bought a dilapidated stone house in the centre of the village and set about turning it into a holiday-home - a tall order when the only access up the mountain is an ancient mule-track. Eight years, two children, six cats, a crazy puppy, dozens of chickens and a broken-wing seagull later, and she finds herself a permanent resident, with an almost-finished home, but is starting to wonder what happened to the holiday...