A week ago, the 20th of March 2011, was our (Taise and me) first wedding Anniversary… well, I think that’s a pretty good excuse to spend a nice week-end by ourselves, maybe some isolated place, far from Internet, Mobile Phones, TV etc etc. And if you are wondering there are still place like that, I know it’s difficult to imagine, but trust me… there are! Full Gallery

The place is located in the beautiful Whanganui River Valley (I won’t tell you the name, it’s a secret) and it’s an “Organic Farm” owned by Annette and John. Everything in the place is thought to impact the surroundings as less as possible, from the home-grown food (the breakfast was legendary) to the house builted with recicled and natural material, from the wood-stove to the low energy lighting (they have a solar panel system). We stayed at the Brewery Cottage, a small villa built with the intention to brewer some beer, but ended up to be a guest house. The stay was awesome, very relaxing and refreshing. Except for when we had to chop quite a lot of wood to be used for the bbq, for the fireplace and for the bath… yes, old style bath which took probably two hours to be completely heated, but was well worth it.

The Valley offer also a very spectacular view and you can spend you time on the numerous tracks or doing a 3 hours Canoing in the river. for lack of time we didn’t manage to do any of that (except some little walk surrounding the farm) but that to me seems another pretty good excuse to go back there quite soon! Full Gallery

Alessandro Mozzato  //  www.alessandromozzato.com