Type of Programme
One-to-one, personalised Italian language tuition living full-board with the tutor's own family and in the tutor's own home, including local visits and excursions, meeting friends, neighbours and professional colleagues etc.

Type of House: House

Teaching Qualifications and Experience
Diploma In Tourism/Languages 1988. I taught Italian to English students from 1995-1999 in the UK and Italian to foreign students in Italy since 1999.

Hobbies and Interests
Reading, cooking, socialising, cycling, fencing, handball.

Excursions and Local Attractions
We will visit Venice (the monuments, the islands, the hidden places), the Riviera del Brenta with its beautiful Renaissance villas, Padua and Treviso, we will go to the Dolomiti mountains and the Montello (the capital of Prosecco wine), the lake Garda area and all the surrounding hills. In Veneto everyday there is something to do and the weather is quite good all year round.

Accommodation, Facilities and Local Area
We live in a 4 bedroom house on the outskirts of Venice (Oriago di Mira), only 15 minutes away by bus from this beautiful city, one of the safest cities in the world. The house is situated in the middle of the countryside, on the picturesque Riviera del Brenta, full of the famous Renaissance Villas that can be visited all year round.

We are not far from Padua and Treviso and in an hour you can be either at the beach or in the mountains. The centre of Oriago (the town where we live) is full of shops and cafe and restaurants and it is crossed by the Brenta River, a very picturesque waterway.

The house has a living room with satelitte TV and two sofas, a kitchen, a laundry room, 4 bedrooms, a terrace, a garden with table, chairs and a brick barbecue. We spend many of our evenings just relaxing and watching the local wildlife passing by. In the room there is a satellite TV and free internet access.

All of the family is bilingual (english-italian) and we love to meet new people and to show to other people why the Italian culture and way of life are so fantastic. Staying with us you will experience the typical italian DOLCE VITA, eating outside (weather permitting), taking many excusions in Venice and to all the other beautiful places in the region.