The numbers alone sound like an Under the Tuscan Sun dream: a three-storey 1812 stone house in a hamlet of three homes on two hectares of land, 80 olive trees, two veggie gardens and two chicken coops, a 10-minute drive from the medieval Tuscan city of Pistoia.
And, like in the famous memoir, restoring a house that has stood for two centuries has not always been a straightforward enterprise for its owners,