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After an extensive career in the newspaper business as a staffer in London I spent several years freelancing from France and Italy. My articles appeared in most British national newspapers as well as the New York Times and Reader’s Digest and for a while I was European Editor of Travel Holiday magazine (USA). My world changed when my wife and I bought a ruined farmhouse in Tuscany and we spent the next thirteen years grappling with bureaucracy, the business of making wine and being host and hostess to hundreds of guests who rented our holiday accommodation. The venture got off to a disastrous start but eventually became a great success — as did the wine. Complete novices, we were aw...