自我介绍

After being host in our family-run restaurant for 30 years, I decided together with my husband Johny, to change our too busy lives and to go for more quality. So…we left Belgium and moved over to beautiful Tuscany in 2000. It didn’t take much to fall in love with this exceptional piece of paradise and so we decided to stay. We arrived with 4 dogs and 4 horses and some suitcases and…started all over… From that time we started up different hospitality projects and we became more and more ‘italians’, enjoying the super lifestyle of Tuscany. The local food products made me getting more interested in cuisine and slowly I developed my passion for cooking and baking. Although I do not consider myself ‘a chef’, most of our guests do appreciate a lot my simple cuisine based on natural, local, fresh products. In wintertime I love walking for hours with our dogs, 2 jack russells, in this stunning landscape that changes all year round. Also culture is always only a few steps away, and being in a bigger city as Siena, also shopping is still a pleasure…so, if someone is looking for tips for shopping or cooking…I can help you out! Reading is another passion, and nothing compares to reading a good book under the Tuscan winter sun. Two yoga sessions a week keep me fit and balance my mind. Latest years we started up our new business, Tuscan-experience, to pamper my guests on the best vacation sites in Tuscany, while Johny is busy with decorating these places and always looking for new experiences with which we can help our guests to enjoy as much as possible their Tuscan stay. Hope to meet you soon as our guests in one of our dream places, and helping you to find your ‘tuscan experience’… Big hug Rita