An holiday in a book like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.. Trip to Lerma, Piedmont, Italy

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How often, reading a good book, we wanted to be in romantic places described by the author, and participate in the adventures of the characters ... Love a book is also empathize with a protagonist and imagine his life as if it were our own. If you go on vacation in a book so far seemed an impossible dream, now it is no longer: the boys brisk today and yesterday, as well as their mothers, sisters and friends can spend a weekend but also a long holiday in a place that will remind them of the setting of the famous adventure novels of Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Just like I did last summer with two of my friends and children of one of them.

To do that, there is no need to go to Missisppi, just an hour's drive from Milan and Turin, and about half an hour from Genoa, this place is located in Lerma romance in the province of Alessandria, 6.7 km from Ovada motorway A26 Milano - Ventimiglia.

If the children of the novels of Mark Twain spent their days playing and devise plans daring on the banks of the river, the young people who are on holiday at Mill Lerma, can do the same on the stream, while the parents take up the sunshine on the beach . The mill is located on the River Sod, in an open valley, in the woods of the medieval castle of the Spinola. The river, under a rock, forming a large swimming lake where pure water you can swim and sunbathe on the beach. The water comes down from the mountains of Liguria uninhabited and is not subject to pollution due to the settlements. Guests of the eight bedrooms, the property lease, to the beach, umbrella and chairs. The fortress of 70-80 feet, plunging into the water and the ancient forests are unusual, as are the silence, the green fields, the opportunity to swim and walk along the river to the mountains.

The woods through Tom and Huck in search of hidden treasure, in an America populated by cowboys and Indians, are not much different from those where children and adults may venture out for walks starting from the Mill to the National Park huts Marcarolo on foot, by bike, but also on horseback, in true Western style.

After the adventures, the Mill Lerma expects all the rest rejuvenating good food and authentic flavors of traditional cuisine: animals, ducks, chickens, horses, are the joy of children, and the restaurant prepares everything in-house from bread to cakes to get the best quality, safety, and digestibility. In the kitchen using only the eggs of hens of the farm.

The menu is always renewed and among the local specialties are to be reported the ravioli with vegetables, as well as the old plates, including a medieval pre-Hispanic white sauce, made with meat, herbs and olives.

The Mill Lerma is also an educational farm, a small dam directs water to a turbine that makes autonomous structure for electricity through hydropower. For students, schools and groups, we organize educational visits to the system.

Not only did we have fun and relax in this context, the great romantic and adventurous, but the studio has had its share: in all the little and big Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn of today who come to spend some 'time in this nice place, we offer a free electronic copy (e-book in pdf format) of the two novels of Mark Twain in the original language: the way back from our vacation, we were able to abandon the romantic nostalgia going over in the meantime the English.