The blind Marshall and other people stories.....
It seems incredible and yet this crazy pile of rocks is in its sixth year of restored life and has now played host to holiday makers for three years. Renting it out to strangers has been an interesting and at times, deeply challenging process: we've put heart and soul into bringing it back in a way that honours its humble, rustic origins as a shelter for humans working the land as well as their animals over the centuries. A Cotswold cottage it ain't and that aesthetic - while wonderful in its own context - isn't what I wanted here. It was the Brits, bless 'em, who first understood the value of this agricultural/architectural (without architects) vernacular and many trulli and masserie in Puglia have been saved by English Italophiles. Internally though, too many have been made to look like something you'd find in Bibury or Bourton on the Water. (Meanwhile the Italians veer toward an Indonesian/Balinese or Moroccan look: once again, jarring culturally although I k
