Due to Covid-19 delays we have decided to initiate all our activities as from 2022. We are currently reconsidering all our options.
We are Feline, Leen and Geert, Belgian nationals, who led a busy and international life for lots of years. We have been Italy lovers for many years and our first journey to Puglia dates back to 2004 when the owner of an Italian restaurant in the village where we used to live, advised us to visit Puglia… More specifically ‘Vieste’. The region Puglia was completely unknown to us – like to most tourists at that time – but we decided to follow the advice we got. The unspoilt beauty of the Apulian countryside, beaches and the old city towns blew us away… The blue skies & overwhelming light created an energy we never felt before… so we decided to come back the following years… and many years after that allowing us to explore the whole region…
After a number of years we decided we wanted our own place in this beautiful piece of Italy and after numerous house visits with several real estate brokers we found the house in the Ostuni countryside we later named ‘Casa La Feline’. We only needed a few minutes to decide we really wanted this property. We noticed in a blink of an eye that this trullo house on top of a hill had a very high potential. The great views over the valley, the lush gardens with many unique plants and the trullo house which was in very good state… made us decide to buy. We renovated many years to bring the house to the current standards, including the implementation of solar panels, an artesian well and the construction of a pool with pool house and outside kitchen with bbq & traditional wood oven.
When our lovely daughter Feline was born in 2011 we started dreaming more and more of dramatically changing our lifestyle and escaping the hectic life and obviously the rain and grey skies of Belgium 🙂 like many people do we are sure… but we also understand that there still is a big gap between dreaming and finally jumping into the unknown. We still lingered on for a number of years traveling back and forth between Belgium and Italy until the beginning of 2017… A very good friend of ours fell seriously ill and died after a few weeks. We were seriously shaken and shocked and his lasts words to us were a real eye-opener. He literally said we were fools we didn’t dare to live our dream while the opportunity was there just in front of us. Our good friend gave us the final boost we needed.. We took a difficult but determined decision to sell our house in Belgium and move to Italy…
So now the 3 of us are here in Puglia finally living our dream… with our 7 adopted stray cats & our adopted dog. We certainly have had our difficult moments here as well but the happy ones outnumber the difficult ones… and we now feel we are finding our feet…. We are currently restructuring another place which we hope to finish beginning of 2020… and we have many other plans you will learn from our website – which will enable you to see how we evolve in the next few years… Our goal is to share our excitement and passion for Puglia with many guests from all over the world. Our main theme is to provide exceptional service & quality to our guests. We really want to go out of our way to make them feel at home !
Benvenuti in Puglia e grazie per visitare il nostro sito web !
Feline, Leen & Geert