Category: La Bandita

A magazine editor and her music-industry executive husband leave Brooklyn for the Italian countryside, where despite numerous trials, they succeed in turning a pair of historic buildings into two chic boutique hotels — while recreating their lives in the process. Driving up a steep and deeply rutted dirt road lined with statuesque cypress trees, we …

What happens when you leave big-city life to open a hotel in a picture-postcard village in Tuscany? You open another one. 2000, we were a typical New York media couple. I worked as a travel editor, always on the hunt for the next hot destination, while my future husband, John, a record label executive, chased …