Indy

Some pictures of our dalmatian, Indy

Spring

Springtime is when nature reawakens with an array of colours blossoming on the hillsides, the singing of the birds in the trees, the fragrance of grass, en the gentle warmth of the sun.

Spanish broom

The Spanish broom is a plant that you can find near our house.
The name is a bit tricky, as our house is still in Italy, not Spain, of course.
In Italian it is called : ginestra.

Medicinal Action and Uses

(see: http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/b/brospa73.html)

The Spanish Broom in its medicinal properties closely resembles the common Broom, but is from five to six times more active. The symptoms produced by overdoses are vomiting and purging, with renal irritation. The seeds have been used to a considerable extent in dropsy, in the form of a tincture. The flowers yield a yellow dye.
The dried flowers of Spanish Broom are readily differentiated, those of the true Broom having a small bell-shaped calyx with two unequal lobes, the upper of which is bi-dentate and the lower minutely tridentate, while in Spartium junceum, the calyx is deeply cleft to the base on one side only.
By macerating the twigs a good fibre is obtained, which is made into thread in Languedoc, and its cord and a coarse sort of cloth in Dalmatia.
The name Spartium is from the Greek word denoting 'cardage,' in allusion to the use of the plant.

Winter is over

Although summer is in the air now, I want to share some nice winter-pictures (januari 2008)

50 acres

50 acres of pure nature, that is all ours now.
Fields, trees and even a little vineyard.

First visit

We saw our house for the first time in july 2007 and fell immediately in love with it. Especially the views are spectacular: Mount Beigua, the Bormida valley, a little medieval tower, a church, 'calanche' (a protected nature phenomen, these are grey and naked hills that look like slate), ...

Intro

Far away from the hustle and bustle of the big city, standing on a hill with a magnificent view of the surroundig nature, a medieval tower and little church ...

A corner of paradise in an unspoilt part of Italy between Langhe and Monferrato, Piemonte and Liguria, see and mountain ...

That's where we will live and open our agriturismo where we hope to receive guests from all over the world ...




"WE" means:

• Natascha : an Italo-Belgian psychologist with even a little bit of Dutch blood ... a real European citizen


• Nicolas: in a former life he was a lawyer, now he will be responsible of the herbs (lavender, thyme and rosmarin)


• Indy: dalmatian dog who will be our P.R.-manager as she is unbelievable charming